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A moo-ving target: fenceless grazing widens possibilities for cows and wildlife
GPS collars that alert cows when they reach a boundry are helping to improve habitats and boost biodiversity. Fenceless grazing is being hailed as revolutionary by conservationists and farmers, particularly in beautiful, senstitive or rough upalnd landscapes that are impractical, expensive or undesireable to fence.
Read MoreCan small-scale farmers feed the world?
There is controversy surrounding what percent of the world’s food is produced by small-scale & peasant farmers. Based on available data, 50% of global crop production for human consumption can be attributed to small-scale farms under 5 hectares.
Read MoreSonoma County’s Traditional Medicinals announces minority partnership
Grounded Capital is taking a minority position in the company w/ a $50 million investment made earlier this month, it will join Builder’s Fund. Grounded Cap, guided by Big Path, invest $50M in Traditional Med teas
Read MoreGet Involved with Regen Network: Quarter 3 Virtual Events, Resources & Project Milestones, 2020
Regen Network is doing its part to dismantle systemic racism. They’re in an audit phase where they formed a diversity task team within the company, are crafting a diversity statement, and are beginning to upgrade our company strategy to more explicitly address issues of social and racial justice.
Read MoreThe World’s Roots Are Getting Shallower
Root-filled soils are hot spots of nutrient cycling and carbon storage. New research finds that the world has lost millions of cubic meters of rooted soil volume- and we’re on track to lose more.
Read MorereNature generates first Agroforestry carbon credits in Brazil with Rabobank
Rabobank’s Acorn program aims to unlock the international carbon market for smallholder farmers and help local rural communitites combat climate change, land degradation and food insecurity. Rabobank is developing the acorn to open the carbon market to small farmers, using tried and tested agroforestry practices and modern, enabling technologies.
Read MoreGreta Thunberg Aims to change how food is produced
Swedist climate activist Greta Thunberg has set her sights on changing how the world produces and consumes food in order to counteract a trio of threats: carbon emissions, disease outbreaks and animal suffering. Thunberg said the environmental impact of farming as well as disease outbreaks such as COVID-19 which is believed to have originated from […]
Read MoreNature Offsets and Credits A Look at their history and trends to watch
carbon credit markets had seen lots of criticism, some nature-based carbon projects can be harmful to nature, nature credits have been promoted by World Economic Fourm as an alternative to carbon financing
Read MorereNature’s place in carbon trading
Insetting as a holistic approach to foster responsbile business. Carbon emission reduction is a no-brainer for most organizations today. A credible contribution to climate change mititgation and adaption requires front-runners to do more than buying credits. Through our Regenerative Agroforestry projects, reNature can offer carbon insetting through nature-based solutions and help comapnies on their path […]
Read MorePivoting to Celebrate Nashville Entrepreneurs’ Success
Celebrating 10 Years of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, ‘Power of 10’ is launched, it is a fundraiser that incorporates a digital and social media campaign celebration of entrepreneurial success. The campaign allows us to acknowledge and celebrate the accomplishments, entrepreneurs, business and supporters of the Entrepreneur Center.
Read MoreInvesting in Appalachia
Investments would create jobs, improve critical infrastructure, build self-sustaining economic development programs and revitalize communitites throughout the region.
Read MoreSome but not all US metro areas could grow all needed food locally, estimates study
Reseachers estimate potential for locally sourced food based on land needs for different diets. The model estimates whether 378 metropolitan areas could meet their food needs from local agricultural land located within 155 miles. local potential was estimated based on seven different diets, including the current typical American diet.
Read MoreWalmart Sets Goal to Become a Regenerative Company
World’s largest retailer targets zero emissions by 2040 and aims to protect, manage or restore at least 50 million acres of land and one million square miles of ocean by 2030.
Read MoreGermans allow over one million hectares of greening land to enter production
The German federal minister for agriculture revealed a series of actions intended on easing feed cost and supply concerns. Germany allows $1M greening acres into production
Read More13 Incredible BIPOC farmers/growers to follow on Instagram
Due to systemic racism and discriminatory practices, less than 2% of America’s farmers are black. BIPOC farmers, environmentalists and activists are leading the way to food socereignty and regenerative agriculture.
Read MoreAround the World Gourmet Plans $125,000 Investment in Regenerative Agriculture
Kocher Foods International, Inc., doing business as Around the World Gourmet, along with JobsOhio, Ohio Southeast Economic Development and Belmont County Port Authority announced plans to invest $125,000 in a pulverizing mill to drive market expansion through regenerative agriculture processes. Around the World Gourmet will process grains and other gluten free ingredients that are purchcased […]
Read MoreThe industry creating a third of the world’s waste
Some 100 billion tonnes of raw material is being pulled out of the fabric of the planet in just a single year. Construction creates an estimated third of the world’s overall waste, and at least 40% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions.
Read MoreBeyond Sustainable: A Food System to Restore the Planet
Food production is the top threat to nature- a regenerative system can change that. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that climate change is already reducing food production in drier regions, and taht any warning beyond 1.5C above preindustrial averages will have increasingly severe impacts on food systems.
Read MoreFarmLink Launches Farm Equipment Sharing Program
FarmLink introduced a new online farm equipment sharing community-MachineryLink Sharing – to manage the cost of farm equipment & help generate incremental revenues that can be invested on the farm or in local rural communities. USDA’s 2012 Ag Census, farmers own approx. $244 billion in machinery & farm equipment.
Read MoreAstanor Ventures launches $325M Impact Fund aimed to food tech and ag tech startups
Astanor Ventures is launching a $325 million “Global Impact Fund” concentrating on food and agriculture technology. Astanor’s fund is a multi-stage tech investor that unites both knowledge and experience of scaling new technology companies with food, cross-sector expertise and agriculture.
Read MoreSoil health is as environmentally omportant as air and water quality, say microbiologists
The Microbiology Society’s report calls for increased access to research into soil health, promoting outreach activities in agricultural colleges and schools and showcasing work in non-academic outlets. Microbiology can be used to help understand the impact of intensive farming and design feasible mitigation practices.
Read MoreFree Stimulus for the Hudson Valley
The key is to invest in local resilience. This crisis has taught us that the fundamental premise of long-term economic well being is no longer to attract one or two “world class” global companies, but instead to create a diversity of locally owned businesses meeting basic local needs. If we fixed our investment system, if […]
Read MoreBig Food lost $12B in sales to small CPGs and private label in 2020, IRI says
The pandemic accelerated the consumer shift toward smaller manufacteres as big companies struggled to meet demand and shoppers tried smaller or niche brands. This allowed smaller CPGs and private label to gain 1.3 points in share. Smaller brands were about 1/3 of the 10.3% in growth the CPG industry saw last year. With consumers spending […]
Read MoreApplications Sought for Renewed Effort to Assist Farmers
American Farmland Trust began accepting applications on Nov 1 to help farmers nationwide improve farm viability, access, transfer to permanently protect farmland or adopt regenerative agriculture practices. AFT’s Brighter Future Fund provides grants of up to $5,000 per project.
Read MoreOf Hemp’s Many Uses, One of the Most Promising Could be in Construction
Allin hopes this will lead to more farmers producing hemp crops and entrepreneurs seeing the opportunity to build the processing plants necessary to turn that hemp into building products. He says builders are willing to use hemp in their projects, but the products have to be available, which relies on the processing, which relies on […]
Read MoreNew Funding for Climate-Smart Farm Commodities Could Improve Water Quality
USDA awarded $2.8 billion to 70 projects w/ over 800 partners to generate “climate-smart” farming, ranching, and forestry commodities over five years. ATF’s Climate Smart suggestions around non point source program collab by Climate Smart recipients
Read MoreMeet the Black design collective reimagining how cities get built
Urban planning often neglects or harms communitites of color by cutting them out of the decision-making process. BlackSpace, a collective of architects, designers, artists, urban planners, is quietly working to change that.
Read MoreThe race against time to breed a wheat to survive the climate crisis
Scientists are testing forgotten wheat varieties from across the world to find those with heat- and drought-tolerant traits. Scientist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Sonora are focused on developing wheat varieties which can better cope with drought, rising temperatures & excessive rainfall.
Read MoreNeutral Foods partners with FarmRaise to help distribute $1 Million in funding toward carbon-reducing farm projects over the next year
FarmRaise, the largest farm grants database in the U.S. will connect Neutral to 15,000 farmers nationwide. Neutral Foods is committing $1 Million to scale the adoption of climate-smart practices through 2023. Neutral will focus on funding projects near its existing supplier sheds
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