Top news of the week: 24.03.2022.
Sustainability
Viewpoint: Organic farming best addresses climate change? Why the popular consensus is wrong—and why GE crops should be agriculture’s future
Popular wisdom is often wrong. Consider, for example, how it views organic agriculture, which has grown to a $48 billion a year industry in the U.S. Organic products are sold at outlets ...
French president Emmanuel Macron on Europe’s pro-organic, anti-biotechnology sustainable food strategy: ‘It was based on a pre-Ukraine war world and should be reviewed’
Brussels agreed two years ago to reform its farm practices as part of a drive to eliminate net carbon emissions by 2050. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Perspective: Europe’s Farm to Fork Strategy slams into the wall of reality
The European People’s Party has completely abandoned the fantasy where agriculture can use primitive production practices to meet modern demand.
Future farming to feed 10 billion: Moving from chemical to biological era of agriculture
”We cannot feed 10 billion people in a sustainable way using the current production systems. We can’t. We need to be much more thrifty with our land, and
Oxitec successfully concludes Brazilian field trial of self-limiting fall armyworm developed to protect insect-resistant Bt corn
Oxitec has completed the first farm-scale pilots of Friendly™ fall armyworm on thousands of hectares of commercial corn in Brazil’s key corn-growing
Viewpoint: Beef farmers, under fire from sustainability critics, make their case
Around the world, the beef industry is the subject of a growing ethical debate. Many people seem to think that producing beef for national distribution is
Oat Canada, Roquette increase domestic oat ingredient innovation amid surging demand for plant-based dairy alternative products
– Today, Protein Industries Canada announced an investment into a project between Oat Canada, a rapidly growing oat-based food and beverage company, and Roquette, a global leader …
Sound Agriculture and Shell collaborate on nitrogen emissions study
Program aims to drive greater adoption of climate-smart practices.