Biodiversity

Recycled packaging idea wins ForFarmers’ sustainable business challenge

19-Dec-2019 By Jane Byrne

Twelve Netherlands-based students, participating in ForFarmers’ Sustainable Business Challenge since early November, presented their final ideas on a sustainability case, linked to the circular farming model, on December 13.

Tesco, Nutreco and Grieg Seafood announce funding for soy farmers in the Cerrado region of Brazil

06-Dec-2019 By Jane Byrne

Tesco, Nutreco and Grieg Seafood have become the first companies to lend their support to a new industry-led scheme aimed at helping to end soy-linked deforestation in one of Brazil’s most biodiverse regions, the Cerrado.

Paper ranks organic milk production highly on ecological scores, calls for more grass in EU dairy feed rations

08-Apr-2019 By Jane Byrne

Including more grass in the rations of dairy cows increases soil carbon sequestration and decreases the negative effect on biodiversity, finds a new study.