May 31, 2022 As the world population is expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, we need to increase our food production by 70 percent to be able to feed everyone. But more importantly, we need to figure out ways to do it sustainably. Traditional agriculture won’t cut it because of growing …
Researchers make Synthetic Starch out of Carbon Dioxide
Brimming with bio stories on #regulation, the businesses transitioning to #carbonneutral, the latest investments in #futurefoods. ‘Bioresearch of the Week’ is back with innovations & discoveries in the fields of health, materials, and farming, and ‘Biomass Innovations Under Investigation Part 4: Forestry and Energy Crops’. And making Synthetic Starch …
The other COP meeting
“This UN conference on Biodiversity is indeed, as important as COP26, stating this week in Kunming, China. We hope this will be another possible area of friendly competition between China and the USA to reach for higher goals on climate crises before COP26 in Glasgow, in November. See my article “ESG Stakeholder …
Cultivating Food Sovereignty Through Regenerative Ocean Farming
The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp. BY JUDY BANKMAN Just east of the Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska sits Prince William Sound: an inlet full of tidewater glaciers spanning 3,800 miles of coastline and flanked by the jagged …
Halophytes: How To Solve The Land, Water, Food, Energy & Climate Emergency While Generating Wealth
“Ethical Markets is happy to see our colleague, Dennis Bushnell, presenting the case for expanding our food supply from its perilous dependence on the planet’s 3% of fresh water, by incorporating all the nutritious halophyte foods… still the best way to capture ambient CO2 and stay within the IPCC window! …
Scientific Panel’s Scoping Report Instructive for Global Food Systems Transformation
“IPS has good coverage of these global food issues, but we still see no direct reference to the deeper crisis: that all global plant food is reliant on the 3% of the planet’s freshwater and that nutritious halophyte foods grown on saltwater without pesticides or fertilizer in 22 countries for …
Can You Fight Climate Change With What You Eat?
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this newsletter, with all the correct information we also find on how to eat better and for the planet, as our Advisory Board member, Frances Moore Lappe taught us all in her “Diet for A Small Planet“, see her recent interviews celebrating its 50th anniversary edition! We …
Food Experts’ Expectations for Global Food Systems Transformation
“Ethical Markets recommends all this news from IPS on needed reforms to our global food system. Still missing is the key issue: all our current global foods are grown on the planet’s 3% dwindling freshwater, which is the real impending crisis! We find that overlooking the other half of our planet’s …
Performance versus sustainability is a false choice!
“ Ethical Markets find some interesting stories in this Biofuels Newsletter , but the whole biofuels industry is still too focused on such unsustainable methods as today’s additives to gasoline ( mostly from corn ), as well as growing grass crops such as misocanthus for fuel, on agricultural land, using freshwater …
Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn
Headlines Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn Exclusive / Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn Exclusive: IPCC says gas, produced by farming, shale gas and oil extraction, playing ever-greater role in overheating planet The A-Team / April Ross and Alix Klineman return US to sand-court glory Curtis …