Top news of the week: 16.09.2021.
Sustainability
These super crops can save us from climate disaster
Tonnes of rotting apples and ugly spuds never even make it to supermarket shelves. Tweaking their genes can change that
Uganda’s costly dithering on GMOs
Uganda has a very extensive research and confined field-testing program for GMO crops that include disease-resistant potatoes, cassava and bananas, vitamin
A clarion call for food systems transformation
More than 40,000 people from around the world participated in 850 Independent Summit Dialogues in support of the Summit. The major themes that emerged from those Dialogues have ...
Calls for halt to funding for industrial agriculture
Open letter claims ‘Green Revolution’ programmes exacerbate hunger and food insecurity.
Computers, phones and TVs are now responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than the aviation industry, study finds
Computers, phones and other information and communications technology (ICT) emits up to 3.9 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, researchers at Lancaster University say.
The U.S. Beef And Dairy Sectors Can Be Climate Neutral by 2050 – But How?
Within the next 30 years, the U.S. beef and dairy sectors can reach climate neutrality through considerable reductions in methane emissions. New white paper from the CLEAR Center and Elanco ...
EISAI TO JOIN THE GLOBAL EMVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE “RE100”
Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, “Eisai”) announced today that it has joined “RE100”, the global environmental initiative that aims to shift the electricity used in ...
InnerCircle brings farmers together to influence the future of seed technology
Members will be part of the development process and among the first to trial InnerPlant's InnerSoy sentinel plants.