Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the past, these ingredients were lost somewhere in our food supply chain; now, pathways are being created to ensure they reach consumers. percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 22 percent of all freshwater use in the US. And it’s not just the food that goes to waste; that year, uneaten food accounted for 6.1

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mitigation requires slashing production and consumption, he adds, and increasing recycling and reuse all along the supply chain. Meanwhile, 98 percent of disposables are made from “virgin” feedstock, driving renewed growth for fossil fuel companies that supply the raw material. percent of global emissions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There is, of course, more to environmental impacts than the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. But the consensus is that the kinds of food we eat and how they are produced are more important than whether a supply chain is local or global in terms of reducing negative environmental impacts like biodiversity loss.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These food-grade soybeans are now poised to enter the soy milk market as part of the Transforming the Farmer to Consumer Supply Chain project (Transform F2C) leads the effort, funded by a U.S. These practices reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote carbon sequestration and improve soil health.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 22, 2024

Simplified date labels are one of the most cost-effective strategies to reduce food waste across the supply chain—with the majority of the benefits going to consumers. Most importantly, the act would launch an education campaign to help consumers understand the difference between these categories.

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 12, 2023

AGRIVI teams up with ReddAgro, a pioneering Agri-Tech company specializing in delivering precision farming, greenhouse control and automation, and agricultural supply chain management solutions. With this partnership, they intend to translate this vision into reality by combining their strengths, expertise, and global reach.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 21, 2024

Though fishery production levels fluctuate from year to year, “it’s not like there’s new fisheries out there waiting to be discovered,” said Dave Martin, program director for Sustainable Fisheries Partnerships, an international organization that works to reduce the environmental impact of seafood supply chains. “So

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Industrial farming contributes around 11 percent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, not including the transportation of the food. Transportation contributes around 27 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions. “I Siewicki incorporates all of these hard-learned lessons into his teaching and coaching.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Editor’s Note: One main draw of Controlled Environment Agriculture, or CEA, is the ability to grow produce closer to urban centers where it will be consumed, thus shortening the supply chain for inhabitants of cities globally. Greenhouses and even hoop houses have long been considered part of the CEA landscape.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. The overall impact of the greenhouse gas reductions of ethanol compared to gasoline are therefore hard to balance.

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AGRIVI

JUNE 28, 2023

On top of that , the food and beverage sector faces significant regulatory requirements , considering its substantial contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Collaboration with farmers in their supply chain is key in helping them understand how to reduce emissions and set quantified targets.

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ATTRA

JULY 1, 2024

USDA is seeking information from the public on procedures for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the effect of climate-smart farming practices on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with U.S.-grown grown biofuel feedstock crops.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Methane is a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas that scientists say has driven roughly 30 percent of Earth’s warming since pre-industrial times. Kids and lentils aren’t good bedfellows.” Stewart points to a confluence of major state initiatives that helped propel the effort, starting with the Universal Free Meals Program.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Bonnie says traceability of commodities through the supply chain is important in establishing carbon intensity scores. “In June, you saw a request for information around biofuels from USDA that sought to get responses from the public about creating a system to actually track carbon intensity completely through the supply chain.

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Caff

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But while the world watched as engineers scrambled to remove this gargantuan threat to a multi-billion dollar supply chain, CAFF was back home planting seeds for local resilience. While the plight of that oversized boat and its 20,000 shipping containers did finally come to an end, our country’s supply chain woes have not.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The funding and newly launched National Seed Strategy Keystone Initiative will formalize the Department’s ambitious goals to invest in the infrastructure, tools, research, and labor needed for a robust native seed supply chain, including by expanding Tribal greenhouse facilities, assisting local farmers in transitioning from high-water crops to low-water (..)

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ATTRA

JANUARY 22, 2024

A new Dairy Manure Management Incentive program is launching as part of the Transforming the Farmer to Consumer Supply Chain Project that was awarded the USDA’s Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities Grant.

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Agwired

JUNE 5, 2024

“The data is clear — when our microbial-produced nitrogen is a foundational pillar of a holistic crop nutrition plan, growers can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make a positive on-farm impact that extends across global supply chains.”

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

and Gotham Greens are bringing greenhouse-grown produce and fresh, plant-based foods to more customers across the country. By using hydroponic growing systems in sunlight-powered greenhouses, Gotham Greens' farms use up to 95 percent less water and 97 percent less land compared to field-grown farming.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Community fridges first cropped up a decade ago in a few isolated spots around the globe, then spread across the United States right after the pandemic started in 2020, when supply chains were crumbling, food prices were rising, and families across the country were struggling to find meals. And more food is being thrown out than ever.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

However, critics highlight their outsized environmental impact, including excessive water use and pollution caused by concentrated waste, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, the perishability of dairy’s main product exposes the industry to supply chain disruptions.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

High food prices and supply chain insecurities are only some of the challenges that farmers struggle with every season. Ecologist Mark Easter examines the foods we eat as they move along the supply chain from soil to seller.

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DTN

MAY 30, 2024

Climate risk disclosure covers two major types of climate risks: Transition risks are tied to direct and indirect greenhouse emissions. companies wait for legal rulings around the new SEC rules, there are actions companies can take today by using integrated weather analytics to reduce environmental impact, particularly along the supply chain.

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Hartwood Farm

APRIL 7, 2022

However, we aren’t taking on any single large project (like last year’s shed and tunnel, or the greenhouse the year before, or all the equipment before that. There’s still more greenhouses to build and that long awaited fabled wash-pack barn (one day, one day we won’t wash veggies under a tent!). It will settle, won’t it?)

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A forthcoming analysis previewed exclusively by Grist found that, on average, the amount of time considered unsafe to work outside during a typical 9-to-5 workday will increase 8 percent by 2050, assuming greenhouse gas emissions stay on their current trajectory. Led by Naia Ormaza Zulueta, a Ph.D.

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The Equation

APRIL 5, 2023

In a single year (2018), California wildfires had an estimated cost of nearly $150 billion , including capital losses, health costs, and indirect losses due to broader economic disruption cascading across regional and national supply chains.

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Vertical farms and greenhouses are seeing much more capital investment than they had in the past, and CEA businesses are improving their unit economics through new technologies which attract investment, as well. We also see growers with experience in greenhouses adapt well to vertical farming.

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World Agri-Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These numbers are expected to rise significantly as more intense, destructive, and long-lasting severe weather events and climate change create major food supply chain disruptions. Adding to this, hundreds of millions more suffer from diseases associated with malnutrition and a lack of clean water.

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Agwired

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to McKinsey1 and Company, sales of consumer goods products made with sustainability goals are growing 36% faster than those made without them, which is why Truterra is sharpening its focus on how it can help play a role in the solution for companies to help decarbonize their supply chains and meet their emissions-based goals.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

And because they grow quickly with minimal resources—and without herbicides or pesticides—scientists point to their potential to help bolster nutritional security, hedge against disruptions in the food supply chain and even generate fresh produce on long-term space missions.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The 2020 demand surge for plant-based products occurred alongside risings costs of animal meats due to supply chain disruptions in the early stage of the pandemic. Sinking sales of alternative meats have been driven in part by fluctuating prices. These numbers are especially poignant at a time when, just this week, U.N.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Hylant can build policies for any scale CEA operation, from container farms all the way up to multi-acre greenhouse facilities.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 25, 2022

This platform not only helps farmers make informed decisions, but it also connects smallholder farmers with stakeholders, helping to build resilience in the supply chain. Sustainability is another key consideration in supporting smallholder farmers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Specifically, the bill creates a pathway for USDA’s food purchases to support a just, healthy, and sustainable food system by: Outlining priorities for commodity food purchases that would increase purchases from Beginning, veteran, and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, Small or mid-sized operations, agricultural cooperatives, organic producers, (..)

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Hartwood Farm

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

And our customers, like we were ourselves, were a bit shaken at the initial rockiness of our supply chains. Tiller practice as we prep the greenhouse where next March’s harvests will come from… As customers, we totally will go hit up the market.

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