Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
Food deserts blight some of America’s poorest communities. We meet the campaigners fighting back. Plus: Italy’s wine woes; women in agri-business; low-meat Denmark; VCs bet on regenerative farming; improving Africa’s crops; to plough or not to plough?
...Crop nutrients underpin production of half the world’s food but contribute significant CO₂ emissions at the same time....
...Many executives say that more studio space will be needed as the UK wins a significant share of new productions in a growing market, given the increasing popularity of streaming services around the world...
...The government is engaged in a war against organised crime groups, but criminal activity does target cocoa production in the Andean nation....
...You can’t turn your back on increased production costs.”...
...Production, Rhianna Rule at Palm Productions. Shot in Los Angeles, California, and at Palihotel Hollywood. Special thanks, Avi Brosh...
...The size of the wagers has grown as prices have tumbled due to rising production in agricultural powerhouses including Brazil, Russia and the US....
...OCP’s plan is to take this service all over Africa....
...The extreme temperatures, combined with a lack of rain, sharply hit production, with yields of soyabeans, the key cash crop, forecast to have fallen more than 20 per cent....
...This is becoming the new normal as climate change impacts crop production. “Things are just a lot more volatile,” said Haines....
...business”, said Seth Goldstein, analyst at Morningstar Investment Service....
...Christoph Langwallner set up WhatIf Foods in 2020 to scale up the production of the bambara nut in West Africa and market it to a wider audience....
...“It’s also about the whole process of soil carbon oxidation, bringing air to the soil and making nutrients available to the crop.”...
...Trap crops, planted to lure pests away, and herbicides are viewed as impractical or somewhat ineffective for smallholders....
...extended to a wider range of foodstuffs to help them diversify to more sustainable crops....
...“You can design a perfect crop rotation system which would help to build more soil organic matter,” he says, “but that might actually mean leaving out some of the more lucrative crops.”...
...Payment for corn waste increases the profitability of corn farming, Keith argued, potentially incentivising more production of the crop, with negative environmental effects....
...But in reality such services do not always materialise, says Issaka. Low prices have an impact beyond farming....
...The two regions currently account for about half of all the world's desalinated water production and are investing billions in the new infrastructure....
...Production, The Good Company Represents...
...Iceland, where limited daylight and freezing temperatures make crop growing difficult, is introducing a new farm-funding system to boost production....
...Fiera Comox and Cordiant Capital focus on permanent crops such as apples, cherries and almonds, although most institutional investments in the US have been in row crops, such as wheat, corn, soyabean and...
...This has given big importers, especially China, an alternative source of the grain, according to Argus AgriMarkets, a price reporting and analysis service....
...Poor weather and disease have slashed crop yields in Ivory Coast and Ghana, which together produce more than two-thirds of the world’s beans....
...According to a University of Aberdeen study, China's entire staple crop production of corn and wheat could become a net carbon sink soaking up the equivalent of 38mn tonnes of CO2 every year if biochar was...
International Edition