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Regenerative Agriculture Landscape Analysis

A landmark framework for the fashion and textile industry to understand, communicate, and invest in regenerative agriculture. The Regenerative Agriculture Landscape Analysis is the first report that gives the fashion and textile industry a framework and toolkit to credibly understand, implement and describe the benefits of work in this space. Emphasizes regenerative agricutlure’s roots in […]

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There aren’t enough young farmers. Congress is looking to change that

The pandemic highlighted the need for local & regional food sources, advocates are calling for federal help & making recommendations, Congressional dems & republicans say ensuring a younger generation of farmers can enter the business is key to upholding local & regional supply chains needed for emergencies, general domestic food production & to meet growing […]

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Makers Point the Way for Economic Recovery

A maker is also a customer, who buys materials. Or a parent, training the next generation maker. Or a resident of a particular city. Those are all self-defined roles. However, that same maker might also be a retailer, who deponds on others to buy her products. Or a leader in a local civic association. Makers […]

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An economic growth expert says 5% of government spending marked for large companies should be given to entrepreneurs to boost the economy

The idea is to designate just 5% of key government spending that typically bolsters large established companies to boost entrepreneurs instead. it would help reverse a current bias in gov. toward older entrenched businesses. 5% of government contracts should go to “new entrant” businesses that have never won government contracts before. Local Workforce Development Boards […]

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Lean, green, mean, obscene…? What is efficiency? An is it sustainable?

This paper explores these questions by considering how stakeholders think about efficiency in relation to animal production and consumption, both terrestrial and aquatic. The paper shows that three takes on efficiency are founded on different ways of thinking about the inputs to, and the output and impacts arising from the food system. All are also […]

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The climate bill even Big Agriculture loves

The Growing Climate Solutions Act has supports such as the National Milk Producers Federation, the National Pork Producers Council, and the United State’s Cattlemen’s Association. The Growing Climate Solutions Act is a pretty smallbore response to the problem of climate change, but has gained support from both sides.

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New Market Planned to Pay Farmers for Soil Carbon, Water Quality

General Mills, ADM, Cargill, McDonald’s, and The Nature Conservancy are among 10 companies forming a national market to incentivize the adoption of sustainable farming practices, they are forming a national market by 2022 to incentivize the adoption of farming practices that build soil carbon and improve water conservation. Talks for the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium […]

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[Archived] Organic and Transitional Education and Certification Program

Producer or handler of agricultural commodities that are certified organic were eligible for financial assistance to cover expenses paid during the fiscal year 2022 through USDA’s Organic and Transitional EducationaL and Certification Program (OTECP). This program is part of the USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for Producers Initiative

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Why eating grass-fed beef isn’t going to help fight climate change?

Findings were that well-managed grazing in some contexts-the climate, soils and management regime all have to be right-can cause some carbon to be sequestered in soils. The maximum global potential would offset only 20%-60% of emissions from grazing cattle, 4%-11% of total livestock emissions, and 0.6%-1.6% of total annual greenhouse gas emissions. Grazing livestock-even in […]

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The Three Rules of Resilience

Laura Lengnick on the power of story, city-region food systems, and regenerative economics. The first behavior of a resilient food system is a network of mutually beneficial and recirpocal relationships, second is regional self-reliance, adn third is to make it possible for the local accumulation of wealth.

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Another False Start in Africa Sold with Green Revolution Myths

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was started with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, to double yields and incomes for 30 million smallholder farm households while having food insecurity by 2020. There are no significant productivity and income boosts from promoted commercial seeds and agrochemicals in […]

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Mexico devises revolutionary method to reverse semiarid land degradation

Land degradation is recognized as one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems. Scientists warn that 24 billion tons of fertile soil are being lost each year, largely due to unsustainable agriculture practices. Agave and mesquite grown together for one of most effective carbon sequestration land restoration methods in the world.

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Investing in an Equitable and Just Society

The challenges run deep, and the solutions require innovative thinking around equal access to economic opportunity, healthcare, education, healthy food, financial serviecs, and more to enable all people to thrive. We are active investors in many of these categories, and we are committed to working with founders of all backgrounds, non-profits focused on these areas, […]

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80 Million Reasons Not to Pay for Regenerative Farming

A Maryland farmer who owns 10,000 acres of commodity grain cropland sold carbon credits to a couple of major groups in exchange for planting cover crops and limiting his tillage. It’s just the beginning of what could be decades long boondoggle of pouring “climate investment” money down the drain while actively making our global environment […]

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Don’t Just Mentor Women and People of Color. Sponsor Them.

Mike Smith, president and COO of Stitch Fix has been comitted to recruiting and developing a diverse workforce. One of the most common recommendations on how to be a better ally to members of historically marginalized communitites (HMCs) is to sponsor them. The ABCDs of sponsorship: amplifying, boosting, connecting, defending, and using sponsorship for social […]

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Scientists’ warning on endangered food webs

All organisms are ultimately dependent on a large diversity of consumptive and non-consumptive interactions established with other organisms, forming an intricate web of interdependencies. We need to gain a better understanding of the global-scale synergies and trade-offs between climate change and biological change.

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10 Billion for Carbon Negative Food Transition

In 2014, S2G Ventures was founded for a healthier and more resilient food system as an undervalued solution to the national and global health crisis and looming threats of climate change. S2G Ventures has challenegd the private market to catalyze $10 billion of investment over the next 3 years directed at transitioning to a carbon […]

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