Food Tank
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Securing seeds and equipment and building climate-smart infrastructure like greenhouses, requires funding. Data collection and sharing mechanisms to track the progress and impact of diversification initiatives can be used to refine strategies and measure success. Diversifying into a new product also means finding a market for it.
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
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. Especially when it comes to food systems. But among the doom and gloom shine beacons of hope.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 12, 2023
COPs are historically where key climate decisions are made, such as the Kyoto Protocol, in which signing parties agreed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and the Paris Agreement, which committed parties to the goal of keeping warming to 1.5 Also in attendance are policymakers, NGOs, lobbyists, scientists and more. degrees Celsius.
DTN
DECEMBER 2, 2024
These initiatives aim to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, with interim targets such as a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Market-based mechanisms, such as the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and capacity markets, reward efficiency, innovation, and responsiveness.
Food Tank
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Bans on organic waste, or food waste, offer a tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While some states may not have initially seen the waste reductions policymakers anticipated, Gunders emphasizes the long run importance of this policy mechanism. That, on its own, might interest other policymakers to follow suit, she tells Food Tank.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.
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