Agroforestry grows increasingly critical for fighting climate change, restoring biodiversity and boosting incomes and economies for rural communities.
The growAG platform connects startups, researchers, investors and other key players with opportunities in Australia’s agtech industry.
Farms can boost biodiversity and income with agroforestry; Propagate wants to make that option more accessible to growers and landowners.
A new tropical agriculture program focuses on technologies and processes that restore and regenerate soils and species rather than solely extract from them.
Soil biotech, food waste, and sustainable beverages were among the winning concepts Latin American agrifoodtech startups pitched to an audience last month.
Fresh off a Series B fundraise, Pachama discusses how its technology could make forest carbon markets less fragmented and more productive.
The San Francisco-based company’s platform leverages remote monitoring and AI to bring better data and more transparent accounting to forest carbon markets.
Global cropland has expanded 9% over the past 20 years, with Africa and South America seeing the greatest gains – and half coming at the expense of “natural vegetation and tree cover.”
By joining the CanopyStyle initiative, Walmart will impel its suppliers to use alternate fiber sources such as ag byproducts.
Carbon credits generated by ag-related projects make up less than 1% of all issued credits, according to data from the University of Berkeley, California.
The US tech giant claims the scheme will restore 20,000 hectares of forest within three years and remove 10 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere by 2050.
Agroforestry has a multitude of benefits in terms of soil health, water quality, and food security – so long as it is done right.
ReNature worked with a Brazilian farmer cooperative to generate the credits in partnership with Rabobank’s carbon marketplace, Acorn – with Microsoft the buyer.
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Carbon farming can “contribute significantly” to EU climate effort, the European Commission says after a two-year study into regenerative ag practices.
The Singapore-based company has invested in The Nurturing Co as part of its wider ‘Go Green With Razer’ initiative, which aims for a 100% ‘carbon neutral’ organization by 2030.
The Dutch startup supports the adoption of regenerative agroforestry projects across the world. It’s hoping to bring a systems-based approach to the movement.
Agroforestry offers soil health improvements, biodiversity, and new income for farmers but lack of capital to plant a tree crop is often a non-starter.
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