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...But whatever its wider benefits, sceptics warn that regenerative agriculture will not solve the agri-food sector’s emissions problem....
...Franky, 61, handles Golden Agri Resources, as well as telecommunications and energy....
...Israeli irrigation companies like Netafim export to countries like India and the United States....
...In the US groundwater levels around California’s Central Valley farming area have been declining rapidly....
...It can trace its roots to Europe’s apothecaries in the Middle Ages and the 19th-century dye and bulk chemical producers of Germany’s Ruhr valley, but the pharmaceutical sector has become a significant global...
...But the company is looking to expand further into a range of related agricultural services, including irrigation, horticulture and farm technology....
...Silicon Valley firm VantagePoint began investing in clean tech in 2002....
...The company also aims to lift communities out of poverty and turn subsistence farmers into entrepreneurs through the provision of superior seeds, training in modern farming methods and irrigation....
...The ponds, or étangs, are a mostly man-made result of the irrigation of this former swampland and are highly sought after....
...Alberto Galvão, manager of Valexport, the São Francisco valley’s fruit and vegetable exporters’ association, says the area has a competitive advantage with 3,000 hours of sun a year, reasonable land, low...
...If you use Google Earth to focus on the area north of Riyadh and in the Dawasir valley south-west of the Saudi capital, you will find green circles in the desert....
...“I tasked an Apache to engage a target, then I completely forgot about him,” Greenwood says sheepishly, nodding beyond his computer monitors to the Afghan valley laid out below his hilltop position....
...This touches on a strand of thinking that is finding adherents in Silicon Valley as the exponential advances in computing gain momentum....
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