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Future of Food and Farming Q2 2023
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Promoting risk-based investment and policy: how PARM can help
Risk-based interventions are key to promoting sustainable agricultural systems, food security and improved resilience to climate shocks in the context of scarce resources. Promoting a holistic Agriculture Risk Management (ARM) approach helps to inform investments, policies and strategies to address the drivers of agricultural volatility. The Platform for Agriculture Risk Management (PARM), hosted by the...
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How livestock farming can help achieve sustainable development goals
Livestock farming plays a crucial role in sustainable development, offering solutions for food security, nutrition, biodiversity and climate change. Livestock farming is essential for successfully implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and achieving Regenerative Food Systems. Despite criticisms and misleading narratives, livestock farming holds a tremendous – and still untapped – potential to address many...
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How top food brands can transform our agricultural land
Food brands and supermarkets have the power to make nature-positive food the norm. Rather than bending nature to produce food, food can be designed for nature to thrive. Everything we eat has been designed by brands and supermarkets. They decide and design how our food looks and tastes, its nutritional value and impact on nature....
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How farmers can help recover biodiversity and restore natural capital
Radically changing approaches to agriculture is essential in preserving the ‘natural capital’ of global biodiversity. Chairman of Environment Bank, Professor David Hill, believes farmers and landowners must help rebuild and conserve the natural capital of biodiversity, pollinators, soils, landscapes, habitats and air and water quality. Encouraging farmers to restore nature Environment Bank was set up...
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Power to the microbe: how agriculture’s nitrogen fix can protect crops
The 760 million tonnes of wheat, 515 million tonnes of rice and 1.2 billion tonnes of corn we grow each year rely on nitrogen fertiliser: without it, we’d struggle to grow half that volume. Unfortunately, synthetic nitrogen production contributes 5% to greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Then there’s nitrous oxide: 235 times more damaging than carbon...
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How finance can unlock benefits of regenerative agriculture
When managed in the right way, agriculture offers a huge opportunity for us to reach global net zero targets through carbon sequestration. While our current food system contributes to one-third of GHG emissions, evidence shows that it has huge potential to be part of the climate solution. Sustainable and regenerative farming has a key role...
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Guiding UK farms to grow for a more resilient and sustainable food supply chain
Farm businesses are an integral part of life in Britain. They are the bedrock of rural communities, contributing significantly to the economy. Farm businesses are integral to life in Britain. Alongside providing high-quality, climate-friendly food, they are the bedrock of rural communities, the rural economy and local tourism and provide unparalleled care for our countryside...
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To feed more people during a food crisis — make a timely plan
To avoid the worst of food and nutrition crises, preparing and planning are key ingredients. According to the 2023 Global Report on Food Crises, 258 million people across 58 countries/territories are facing acute food insecurity, marking the fourth consecutive year this figure has increased. The goal of achieving zero hunger by 2030 seems more distant...
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How investing in agriculture resilience can help feed the world
Progress made in reducing poverty and hunger has been lost, and many of the Sustainable Development Goals are unlikely to be achieved by the 2030 target date. The frequency and intensity of emergencies, disasters and conflicts worldwide are rising and contributing to growing numbers of people facing hunger. Around 828 million people go to bed...
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How regenerative agriculture drives growth for farmers and lowers environmental impacts
The future of farming is regenerative. Regenerative agriculture practices can reshape global agriculture and farming systems as we face the challenges of climate change and food security. Regenerative agriculture, put simply, is about ‘producing more with less while restoring more.’ It will play an increasingly important role in supporting food security and sustainable food production....