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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. Media Source. Courtesy of.

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How Yum! Brands Is Making Its Supply Chain More Sustainable

3BL Media

“If temperatures rise and extreme weather events increase, then there may be less supply of items like beef, chicken and cheese worldwide. Improving supply chain resilience helps mitigate these risks, benefiting our consumers, suppliers and franchisees.” In 2021, Yum! It’s all connected.

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Move to Regenerative Agriculture Requires Investor Mindset Shift

Chris Hall

Regenerative agriculture focuses on rebuilding soil health, enabling biodiversity, and improving water quality, while simultaneously supporting better farmer livelihoods. The framework is designed to be used practically at a farm-level to measure regenerative agriculture outcomes across arable, dairy and beef.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. After learning of the outsize impact of dairy in its supply chain, it added more plant-based items to its menu. "I

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Mars, Cargill put nature regeneration goals alongside avoiding climate catastrophe

GreenBiz

Thu, 02/11/2021 - 01:00. You can’t stick an instrument in a bucket of palm oil and measure whether there was deforestation or forced labor in its supply chain. During the session, with panelists from large agricultural companies Cargill and Mars, regenerative agriculture took center stage. . Jesse Klein.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation

Research in 2021 from the Farmer Income Lab —a “think-do tank” founded by the multinational company Mars and comprised of companies, NGOs, and civil society organizations— estimated that up to 70 percent of farmers in agricultural supply chains may be living below the global poverty line of $3.20

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Why we need to wean agriculture off fossil fuels 

Corporate Knights

The report estimates that agriculture’s supply chain is responsible for at least 15% of the world’s fossil fuel use and for driving the equivalent annual carbon emissions of the European Union and Russia combined. This is thanks to the ways we produce, transport and store food.