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Electric tractors, agribots and regenerative agriculture

GreenBiz

Electric tractors, agribots and regenerative agriculture. But digging into innovations being advanced by that organization — AGCO, based in Duluth, Georgia — reveals much about the potential future of technology for cultivating regenerative and precision agriculture. Heather Clancy. Thu, 12/17/2020 - 01:30. percent through 2025.

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Investing in Value Creation Through Regenerative Agriculture

3BL Media

In 2018, we began a journey at Domini in adopting a system-level approach to our investments. Regenerative agriculture is a holistic approach designed for farmers to work in harmony with nature, while simultaneously maintaining and improving livelihoods. First was looking at Forests and now Agriculture.

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Cisco: Financing Regenerative Agriculture: A Pathway to Healthier Soil, Cleaner Water, and Climate Resilience

3BL Media

Meet four Cisco Foundation partners working to support farmers’ transition to regenerative practices to improve resiliency and mitigate the climate crisis. Regenerative agriculture practices like cover cropping , no-till farming , and crop rotation help restore organic matter in soil, increasing its ability to retain water and nutrients.

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Five ways family offices can unlock capital for regenerative agriculture

Impact Alpha

The investment momentum into regenerative agriculture is undeniable. In 2018, there was $49 million of investment capital going to companies in the space. The post Five ways family offices can unlock capital for regenerative agriculture appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Hormel Foods Announces New Regenerative Agriculture Initiatives

3BL Media

Hormel Foods recently became a major sponsor of an up to 50,000-acre regenerative-agriculture pilot project to be located throughout central and southeast Minnesota. Hormel Foods recently became a major sponsor of an up to 50,000-acre regenerative-agriculture pilot project to be located throughout central and southeast Minnesota.

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The growing movement to take the bull s**t out of organic farming

Corporate Knights

The true regenerative agriculture We’ve turned our planet into an animal farm. If we include the lost-land opportunity to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into rewilded pastureland, that estimate jumps to 28% according to the largest meta-analysis on food and the environment, published in Science in 2018. Globally, 3.8

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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

Within its own operations — it has 21,000 employees and offices in 50 countries — BCG is aiming to reduce direct energy and electricity emissions by 90 percent per full-time employee against a baseline measurement of 2018, according to the new set of commitments the company announced Tuesday.

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