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Op-Ed | A Case for Food Diversification

Food Tank

Securing seeds and equipment and building climate-smart infrastructure like greenhouses, requires funding. As mentioned earlier, a diversified farm isn’t reliant on the success of a single crop or livestock type. The shift toward farm diversification has its share of challenges, of course.

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UFU slates attempts by officials to cut cow numbers in Northern Ireland

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Suggested cuts to livestock numbers in Northern Ireland will significantly impact pasture-based livestock production without reducing global emissions because more meat and dairy would be imported from overseas, says the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU).

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The COP-28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai—items

Food Politics

The lunch menu: The summit is featuries roughly two-thirds plant-based menu to highlight the link between greenhouse gas emissions and livestock. FERN’s Ag Insider: Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture grew 14 percent in 20 years. Reuters: Countries urged to curb factory farming to meet climate goals IV.

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Livestock Production And Deforestation

Agric4profits

Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock farming are a significant contributor to global climate change. The production of livestock generates various types of g

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Brainfood: Diverse ecologists, Wild vs cultivated, Ecosystem services, Indigenous people, Mixtures, On-farm trees, Monitoring protected areas, Social media & protected areas, Wild harvesting, Land sparing vs sharing, Agroecology & plant health, Wild vs cultivated

Agricultural Biodiversity

” The Role of Crop, Livestock, and Farmed Aquatic Intraspecific Diversity in Maintaining Ecosystem Services. Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems. Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity.

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From Livestock to Lion’s Mane, the Latest From the Transfarmation Project

Civil Eats

While some of Transfarmation’s farmers have laid a lot of groundwork, the path between feeding livestock and misting mushroom substrate was always bound to be muddy. The post From Livestock to Lion’s Mane, the Latest From the Transfarmation Project appeared first on Civil Eats. I see that as my role.

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How the food industry exerts influence II: climate scientists (meat industry)

Food Politics

[link] The 2006 United Nations report “ Livestock’s Long Shadow ” provided the first global estimate of the livestock sector’s contribution to anthropogenic climate change and warned of dire environmental consequences if business as usual continued. Here, we show that the industry has done so with the help of university experts….Here,

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