Global Cause
Future of Farming Q2 2022
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The benefits of a digital approach to farming
Increased digitalisation within the agricultural sector can create more sustainable approaches to farming and food production. Digital solutions are changing how farmers operate. The increasing amount of data that is ‘harvested’ from farms allows for improved management and optimised production. This data can help to increase efficiency and lead to more sustainable farming, but experts...
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Natural capital markets – an opportunity or a distraction?
Land stewards, farmers, private and institutional landholders are facing a whirlwind of change from shifts in the policy landscape, subsidy regime and rising input costs. Into this mix, the markets for ‘natural capital’ are gaining momentum. The idea is that landholders can more directly enhance and monetise those natural ‘assets’ that provide humanity the ‘services’...
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Global feeding: why our food security matters
Just like the climate crisis, global feeding presents us with a challenge which every nation needs to play its part in solving. Just three months ago, Ukraine was a key cog in keeping the world fed. It provided food for over 400 million people internationally. Now, if farming wasn’t challenging enough, many of those farmers...
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How regenerative agriculture is helping cut carbon footprint
Farmers are being supported in more eco-friendly approaches to food production by being encouraged to adopt regenerative agriculture practices on their land. In an approach that encourages greater care of the soil, considered crop rotation, and restoration of woodland and hedgerow planting, farmers and communities are finding social and environmental benefits, such as increased productivity...
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Farm machinery’s important role in environmental protection
A growing population, finite resources and the need for sustainable production that feeds the world in a responsible way all contribute significantly to the pressures placed on modern farming. The industry is facing these challenges with energy and optimism, supported by businesses playing their part by giving farmers the tools they require to produce food...
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Greater collaboration and urgent action required to enhance food security
The world is facing unprecedented challenges to global food security. Between a supply chain already stretched thin due to COVID-19, the increasing effects of the climate crisis and the tragic war in Ukraine, food supply is in real danger in many countries. With farmers around the world struggling to access – or afford – the...
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Farming: a people-centric blueprint for the future of humankind
Farmer-centric, systemic innovation can generate a tremendous impact on the sustainability of our planet, providing new options for resilient and thriving food systems, in the interest of humankind. These are times of significant challenges and great concerns. The conflict in Ukraine, in all its dimensions, arrives at a time when the world is already severely...
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Insect and hydroponic farming – a solution to the food, feed and fertiliser crises
Insect and hydroponic farming have the potential to increase access to nutritious food, feed and fertilisers whilst creating millions of jobs, improving the environment and climate crisis, and strengthening national economies. What if there’s a way to feed everyone on our planet with a nutrient-rich diet and not drain our planet’s forests and biodiversity? A...
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Foresight is helping to design a better future for all
Imagine a world that is diverse, sustainable and equitable. A world where our current disconnect from nature is a distant memory. A world where listening to nature’s voice is not only normalised but championed. The growing scale and compounded impact of human behaviour has put life in all its forms everywhere at risk in irreversible...
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Safeguarding food security and reinforcing the resilience of food systems
The invasion of Ukraine has shown us the importance of ensuring food security at all times, within the EU and worldwide. This objective, enshrined in our founding Treaties some 65 years ago, is today as important as ever. For the global food system, the loss of grain exports from Ukraine means that up to 25...