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A week of getting real about the enormity of the climate challenge

Terry Slavin, (Sep 29, 2022)

In the latest issue of The Sustainable Business Review, our columnists analyse some of the latest developments, from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance weakening its language on phasing out fossil fuels, to how the energy crisis is putting the wind in the sails of community energy

PepsiCo’s biggest challenge: winning over millions of farmers to regenerative practices

Oliver Balch, (Sep 29, 2022)

Oliver Balch meets Jim Andrew, the man charged with delivering the consumer goods giant’s ambitious climate pledges

Winemakers turn to sustainability to ride the storms of climate change

Mike Scott, (Sep 8, 2022)

Mike Scott reports on how an industry that is a canary in the coal mine for climate change is adapting to become more resilient

Biochar: the 'black gold' for soils that is getting big bets on offset markets

Karen Luckhurst, (Sep 8, 2022)

Karen Luckhurst reports on an age-old technology that has the potential to help millions of smallholder farmers and lock up carbon for hundreds of years

Beef and dairy farms pushed to innovate to tackle methane emissions

Mark Hillsdon, (Sep 8, 2022)

Mark Hillsdon looks at pilot projects from seaweed in cattle feed to new grazing practices, but asks whether the industry is going fast enough

From hemp to Kernza, the hunt for more resilient food crops

Angeli Mehta, (Sep 8, 2022)

Angeli Mehta looks at efforts to commercialise new, more drought-resistant crops, and make existing staples less thirsty

Regenerative agriculture seen as answer to averting Africa's growing food crisis

Mark Hillsdon, (Sep 7, 2022)

Mark Hillsdon reports on efforts to avoid a looming environmental and human catastrophe by empowering smallholder farmers in climate-smart practices

Turning cows from climate criminals to heroes with agroforestry

Mark Hillsdon, (Sep 7, 2022)

Mark Hillsdon reports on the rise of silvopastoralism, livestock farming that works with nature, rather than against it, highlighting examples in Brazil, Kenya, and the UK

The pioneers trying to restore life to America’s stressed soils

Sarah LaBrecque, (Sep 7, 2022)

Sarah LaBrecque reports on nascent efforts by farmers and food brands including General Mills, Unilever, PepsiCo and Nestle to turn the tide on decades of destructive industrialised agriculture in the U.S. 

Nature-depleted UK sets sights on greener food system post-Brexit

Angeli Mehta, (Sep 7, 2022)

Nestle, PepsiCo and McCain Foods are trialling ways of driving down carbon emissions in their British supply chains. Angeli Mehta reports

‘Is regenerative farming just a buzzword or a blueprint for restoring soil health?’

Alan McClay, (Mar 9, 2022)

Comment: With the latest IPCC report highlighting the risk of ecosystem collapse, Better Cotton’s Alan McClay welcomes the attention now being given to ending destructive farming practices

‘Averting climate disaster means going big on food systems transformation’

Ruth Richardson, (Sep 22, 2021)

Comment: Ruth Richardson and Peter Bakker hope this week’s UN Food Systems Summit will deliver concrete results towards make the food and agriculture sector more equitable and nature-positive

Why the UK’s regenerative agriculture reforms promise a second life for farmers

Dr Abigail Barker, (Jun 18, 2021)

COMMENT: Dr Abigail Barker of Natural Capital Research says the far-reaching reforms will replenish depleted natural capital reserves and provide a baseline for net-zero carbon strategies

‘If Big Food really wants to cut emissions from farming, why haven’t they stopped food waste?’

Oliver Balch, (May 30, 2021)

Oliver Balch interviews Project Drawdown’s Dr Jonathan Foley, but finds him oddly reluctant to talk about regenerative agriculture

Joe Biden’s plan to pay America’s farmers to become eco-warriors

Mark Hillsdon, (May 30, 2021)

Mark Hillsdon reports on how the U.S. president's proposed Growing Climate Solutions Act seeks to turn the industrialised agriculture of the country’s breadbasket from a biodiversity hazard into a CO2 sink through regenerative agriculture

Tackling biodiversity loss in the latest issue of The Ethical Corporation

Terry Slavin, (May 30, 2021)

The summer issue of Reuters Events Sustainable Business's quarterly magazine looks at the growing business imperative to put a value on natural capital, and how leading corporates are integrating biodiversity into their strategies to address climate change

'To reach net-zero, we need to help farmers reverse the deterioration in soil health'

Bastien Sachet, (Apr 19, 2021)

Comment: Bastien Sachet, CEO at Earthworm Foundation, says Nestlé, Lidl, Bonduelle and McCain are among companies that are driving regenerative agriculture practices in their supply chains

From urban farming to green homes: the US cities building in climate resilience

Diana Rojas, (Apr 3, 2020)

Despite environmental rollbacks by the Trump administration, the largest number of cities on CDP's climate A list hail from the US. Diana Rojas profiles Washington DC, Park City, Utah, and a trio of Ohio cities: Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus

Saving our soils: An in-depth briefing on climate-smart agriculture

Terry Slavin, (May 31, 2019)

Amid warnings of only 60 harvests left and a global population set to reach 9.8 billion by 2050, the June issue of Ethical Corporation investigates how business is rising to the mounting sustainability challenges facing food systems

How Syngenta’s regenerative approach is helping Spanish olive groves to flourish

Mark Hillsdon, (May 28, 2019)

Mark Hillsdon hears how introducing techniques such as cover cropping has reduced soil erosion by 95% in Andalusia