Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. By creating mechanisms that connect farmers, seed providers, trainers, financers, innovators, retailers and other players in the food sector across the world, COP28 can build the momentum for agroecology.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

According to the organization, just 3 percent of climate finance goes toward food systems even though the sector contributes to roughly one third of greenhouse gas emissions globally. There’s a huge funding gap,” Lappé says.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

First, we need to commit to the pledges for finances that are made at COP. At the G20 Summit, which also took place this week in Brazil, global leaders issued the Rio de Janeiro Leaders’ Declaration and reaffirmed their support for inclusive climate action and financing. As a small economy, my nation faces the brunt.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Securing seeds and equipment and building climate-smart infrastructure like greenhouses, requires funding. Equipment sharing and community information sharing about financing helps to adapt quickly to the changes. The shift toward farm diversification has its share of challenges, of course.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2023

To guide this transformation and help the food and agriculture sector reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the FAO is producing a new roadmap , to be released in three parts. The plan to develop the roadmap was announced at last year’s COP in Egypt, following an open letter from the investment community.

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OECD: Environment

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

by Valentina Bellesi and Hugh Miller, OECD Environment Directorate After a summer of record-breaking temperatures, droughts, wildfires and floods causing devastation across the globe, the need to rapidly scale-up finance and investment to support a low-emission and climate-resilient transition could not be more apparent.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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OECD: Environment

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Our top 5 blogs discuss a range of issues from financing water to the evolution of climate policies, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, the affect of climate change on careers, and building resilience to droughts. Find out what our readers enjoyed the most in 2023. Our

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

According to the WWF’s latest Living Planet report , they generate one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, are responsible for 90 percent of deforestation and 70 percent of freshwater biodiversity loss, and are the main driver behind a 86 percent decline in wildlife populations in the 50 years to 2020.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 12, 2023

But they receive less than 2% of global climate financing. Teague added that 95% of the world’s farms are small-scale, but they only receive 2% of climate financing. And they’re doing all this now without access to significant external financing.” And we need them to keep doing this good work,” she said.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Her approach is that new conservation, finance, opportunities that are directly accessible to tribes should be decided upon. One is the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator (CCIA) program , part of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program. Mary Oxendine. Courtesy of Mary Oxendine.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The two that we hear most often are: (1) Deciding on the right equipment suppliers from so many options; and (2) Accessing relevant financing options. Currently, the APN comprises 16 equipment providers and 4 financing providers. Third-party validation of the system or underlying technology is also factored in. Credit: iFarm.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Yet, at present, if you farm in ways that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase biodiversity and deliver a range of social benefits, you are likely to make less money than if you farm extractively.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. Over six weeks, the curriculum covers the full seed-to-market process including access to financing, food safety and building a business plan around a farming operation. Still, students see their service background as an apt segue to farming.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

There are many benefits to container farming that make it an attractive alternative to vertical or greenhouse farming. To illustrate the value of container farming as a viable competitor to vertical or greenhouse farming, we conducted three financial models in Agritecture Designer. Credit: Charleston Business Journal.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 1, 2024

And even now, a lot of his income comes from Transfarmation itself—the program is leasing part of his farm from him and spending about $200,000 to convert one of his old chicken barns into a demonstration greenhouse. But here’s the difference: If this doesn’t work out, I can walk away. I’m not going to lose anything.”

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Program focus areas range from clean energy to green finance to methane reduction. Their consulting platform is working to support low-carbon infrastructure and practices in the biggest manufacturing nation in the world , according to data from the U.N. Statistics Division.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

At the Future Economy Forum Pavilion, experts came together for a great conversation on making sure that food system financing aligns with climate goals. At this event and a UNFCCC side event that also covered economic transition pathways, we addressed urgent ways that strategic financing can help spark food systems transformation.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 16, 2023

Just like equipment leasing , infrastructure leasing allows farmers to lease facilities such as barns, silos, storage sheds, greenhouses, and other structures used in the farming process. What is farm infrastructure leasing?

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The farm is not a nonprofit organization, so Schreiner depends largely on small one-off grants, crowdfunding, and limited wholesale revenue to finance Sakari’s many efforts—all of which center on traditional ecological knowledge. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Conversations on the controlled environment agriculture space usually lead to comparisons between vertical farms (VFs) and greenhouses (GHs). Our analysis reveals that vertical farm operators are indeed outdueling greenhouse operators, but not by much – $3.3 Credit: Greenhouse Grower. billion (55%) to $2.3 billion (55%) to $2.3

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

food supply—results in “annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 42 coal-fired power plants,” according to a report released by the EPA in November 2021. What’s their financing?” Every year, about 130 billion meals, or $408 billion in food, are thrown away in the U.S., according to Feeding America.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 31, 2024

By using regenerative practices to draw carbon down from the atmosphere and back into the soil, some estimates suggest we could sequester more than half of total annual greenhouse gas emissions globally. An investment in sustainable agriculture is also an investment in combatting climate change.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Their focus on greenhouse gas mitigation leaves ample room for building on-farm resilience.

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The Equation

APRIL 5, 2023

Reductions in water access affect people’s health and finances as they are forced to purchase bottled water or interim tanks, fix pumps, or drill new wells. When drought compounds heatwaves , upticks in dust and air pollutants associated with extra energy use cause poor air quality in regions such as California’s Central Valley.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The new Product Safety complex with labs, offices, and a greenhouse area offers space for approximately 200 employees. Joining Brian on the executive leadership team is recently announced chief financial officer and vice president of finance, David Pugh, who began August 7.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Reducing that overhead rate could free up financing for the growers who need it most. Warm season vegetable starts like peppers and eggplants were still safely in greenhouses, and flowers rounded out his end-of-summer income. “We In addition to their administrative costs, these companies earn a 14.5%

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

October 17, 2024 Since featuring at the summit in March 2024, Switch Bioworks has gone from success to success, recently raising $17M in series seed financing to bring new biological fertilizer technology to the field. and internationally. What is driving your commercialization strategy? Science first.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Associate professor of Horticulture, Neil Mattson, teaches a student in one of Cornell’s on-campus greenhouses. Credit: Greenhouse Product News. A student applies skills learned in a campus greenhouse at Stockton University. Credit: Cornell Chronicle. With the global population expected to reach 9.7 Credit: Stockton University.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

It plans to do this by public and private means with the Agricultural Transition Plan 2021 to 2024 which contains schemes incentivising and helping farmers to adopt nature-friendly farming practices, and a Green Finance Strategy to encourage more private investment.

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Ohio State University

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Roe is planning another paper examining changes to household finances linked to taking anti-obesity medicines – in terms of both pharmacy and food costs. Given the steady rise in GLP-1 agonist prescribing, there are broad local and global economic and environmental impacts at play, he said.

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AGRIVI

JULY 21, 2023

It compiles data on key performance indicators , including yield analysis , crop analysis, field analysis, farm finance KPIs, input usage , harvest reports , water usage , and pesticide application. The Analytics & Dashboard stack allows companies to gain daily insights into their agricultural operations.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

This is precisely the challenge Wageningen University & Research (WUR) laid out for participants of the third Urban Greenhouse Challenge. Winners of the third Urban Greenhouse Challenge, LettUs Design. Learn more about the winning Urban Greenhouse Challenge design ! Visual representation of LettUs Design’s concept.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I had primarily done cut flowers as annual crops or grew in a greenhouse, so I didn’t have a lot of experience or knowledge of perennials. Through Adams, Taylor had worked with SI to create a plan for integrating trees and shrubs on her property. “I Savanna Institute was a great resource for me.” Some classes are free, while others are $40.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Incentives to derisk the transition to more sustainable production practices such as carbon credits , ecosystem service credits , and creative financing solutions may play a crucial role in facilitating the transition. The conventional meat industry is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

But rather than reduce fossil fuel use directly in their supply chains, some choose to offset their pollution by buying “carbon credits” designed to reflect greenhouse gasses taken out of the air elsewhere. Many companies and governments want to claim that their operations are emissions-free. It’s a potentially lucrative opportunity.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 12, 2020

The greenhouse is up and humming, high tunnel planting started, and we are seeding up a storm, because that’s what farmers do. We worry about the cracks showing in our fragile health care system and the household finances affected by the economy. Yet it’s spring, and so we plant (or in Matt’s case, help Critz Farm make maple syrup).

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