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Land Banking: Steward’s Dan Miller Thinks Small Farms Are the Green Economy’s Most Undervalued Assets

Peter Beller — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:19:11 +0000

Andy Chae grew up skateboarding through deserted lots in a down-at-its-heels Detroit in the early 2000s. Now he tends tomatoes and salad greens on one of those vacant lots, next to his uncle’s dry cleaners store. Chae and other would-be small-scale organic farmers may look like anything but an investment opportunity, but Dan Miller thinks […]

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Palm Oil Faces Uphill Battle on Sustainability as Orangutans Fall Victim to Industry

Mark Shenk — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 22:21:48 +0000

The palm oil industry has a sustainability problem which can be summed up in one word: orangutans. Production of palm oil used in food, cosmetics, soap and other items has surged because it pairs both high yields and versatility. But rainforests in Asia, Africa and Latin America have been cleared for plantations. That has boosted […]

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Space Tomatoes and Air-Based Meat: Startups Looking to Conquer Agriculture Off Earth

Daria Solovieva — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:46:31 +0000

A growing number of startups are working on developing agriculture technology that may feed people in space while helping protect the environment. If you’re having a flashback of Matt Damon fertilizing soil and growing potatoes in his garden on Mars as he does in the 2015 film The Martian, the emerging technologies and business plans […]

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Pork-Loving China May Be Poised for Alt-Meat Surge as Pig Supplies Get Pinched

David Wilson — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:06:24 +0000

China is addicted to pork. Last year, the nation, home to half the world’s pigs, produced more than 50 million tons of pork. It’s citizens ate more of the meat than any other country. But rising wages and population are boosting demand, and supplies were further pinched when 100 million pigs were put to death […]

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Meat, Dairy Producers Ignore Climate Change Despite Effects On Profits

Kayla Soyer-Stein — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 21:47:59 +0000

The $1.5 trillion global meat and dairy industries are taking little responsibility for their roles in climate change even as increased droughts, floods and storms cost them money. That’s the assessment of Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return, a London-based collaborative investor network, in a report last week. Its Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index evaluated […]

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UN Climate Report’s Warnings and Opportunities, in 5 Takeaways

Rachelle Dragani — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:49:12 +0000

A grim U.N. report detailing the effects of climate change on food production warns that without large-scale change, food across the globe will become scarcer, more expensive, and contain less nutritional value. To break down the findings from the 1,400-page report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change we’ve pulled together five key takeaways, […]

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Fish Oil From Canola Seeds Seen Easing Ocean Harvest Pressures

Meg Massey — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 18:28:12 +0000

It’s not quite farm-raised fish sticks, but the big agricultural firm Cargill may have moved our food supply a step closer. The feed maker and commodities trader announced that the U.S. Agriculture Department deregulated its plant-based omega-3 fatty acid supplement fed to farm-raised fish. Farm-raised salmon are fed fish oil to boost their omega-3 fatty […]

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Food Scraps, Packing Protein and Profit, Get Second Life

Jonathan Berr — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:14:17 +0000

As peas and soy, crickets and fungus are increasingly eyed as sustainable protein sources, a group of entrepreneurs is looking a little lower on the food chain — at piles of waste. Sunflower tailings are among the scraps being “upcycled” into protein-rich food requiring less energy than meat to make. Planetarians, a California startup, says […]

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While Consumers Wretch, Entrepreneurs Go Full Steam on Bug Protein

David Wilson — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:59:14 +0000

The day is nearing when moms around the world may tell their kids to “sit down and eat your crickets!” Bug protein — grasshoppers, crickets and the appropriately named mealworms — is crawling to your grocer’s shelves. While a niche choice, demand is soaring as beef and pork lose customers for health and environmental reasons. […]

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Investing in Sustainable Farms to Avoid Volatility from Climate Change and Tariffs

Scarlett Kuang — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:52:43 +0000

As President Trump tweets about unfair trade, and climate change reshapes the global weather map, the image of farmland as one of the quieter corners of the investing world is being turned on its head. Investors historically have mitigated market volatility through safe agriculture investments. Trade wars with a host of global trade partners, combined […]

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