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A switch to ecological farming will benefit health and environment
2016-06-02 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A new approach to farming is needed to safeguard human health and avoid rising air and water pollution, high greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, a group of 20 leading agronomists, health, nutrition and social scientists has concluded. Rather than the giant feedlots used to rear animals or the uniform crop monocultures that now dominate farming worldwide, the solution is to diversify agriculture and re-orient it around ecological practices, says the report (pdf) by the International...
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US-based farming company Morada Nut uses TOMRA's Food-sorting Technology
2016-06-01 11:38:00| Food Processing Technology
Morada Nut is a farm, which specialises in the growing and processing of cherries, onions, bell peppers, and walnuts.
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Patagonia joins calls to legalise industrial hemp farming
2016-05-27 17:07:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Outdoor wear specialist Patagonia is joining calls for industrial hemp farming to be legalised in the United States, arguing that it has the potential to lower the environmental impacts of textile production, support small-scale farmers and create jobs in a wide variety of industries.
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Project promotes organic cotton farming in Pakistan
2016-05-25 14:55:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A three-year project has been launched in Pakistan to promote organic cotton farming in Balochistan province.
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Cows, rice and soil are key to farming emissions cuts
2016-05-17 11:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Our food system is not ready to meet the 2C global warming limit agreed by governments. According to research out this week, agriculture alone should be reducing non-CO2 emissions one gigatonne a year by 2030 in order to meet the newly signed Paris Agreement. Further analysis shows that that current agronomic and policy interventions compatible with food production would achieve only 21 to 40% of the needed mitigation to meet agricultures share of the target agreed in Paris. Agriculture...
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