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Technologies such as satellite rainforest monitoring, tree-planting drones and carbon credit trading software are a 'burgeoning market opportunity' for nature-based solutions, according to a new report.
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Building highly efficient utility-scale solar farms on ever-smaller tracts of land is a top priority amid land-use conflicts over renewables.
by Cheryl Katz
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When solar was first starting, many engineers didn’t think about birds, bees and butterflies and why they are important. Now, businesses, cities and farmers are trying to do better.
by Jesse Klein
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The burgeoning Solar Sheep movement argues: Why not both?
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How can we give power back to farmers — and out carbon back into the ground?
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Today we have a five-course menu to serve up food and climate solutions.
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Why not help local farms and lakes, streams and estuaries by accompanying solar installations with native flowering plants?
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Wisconsin-based Midwestern BioAg is turning manure into a lightweight, easily transportable fertilizer that helps build organic matter in soil, helping it store carbon — an important climate benefit.
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Solar farming greatly can improve farmers' livelihoods and impacts, but policymakers are raising concerns about solar panels replacing farmland.
by Scott Thill
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For an industry that relies heavily on natural resources such as clean air, soil and water, becoming more environmentally friendly is not just a marketing ploy — it is a necessity.
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It’s prioritizing services that enable sustainable agriculture and ‘sharing economy’ businesses.
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Tyson, General Mills and Kellogg aren't the only players proving a boon in data analytics investment in 2016.
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The ag giant is teaming up with PepsiCo, Kellogg, General Mills, Monsanto and Walmart. Here's why.
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Midwest row crops, including corn for cereal and soybeans in mayonnaise, are increasingly farmed sustainably.
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DuPont's Pioneer and Bayer AG's Crop Science join Finistere Ventures and Cloud Break Advisors in creating a new accelerator fund.
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What produces food also can produce energy. This paradise state of lush vegetation and sunshine is full of startups trying to cultivate both.
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Dannon will work directly with farmers to transition away from GMOs as sustainability pressures prod startups and big brands alike to change how food is grown.
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Sensors studied water conditions in the field. Cloud-based data helped optimize harvests. These companies broke new ground.
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Apigee and aWhere are teaming up to offer a Big Data application development platform and a few SMS apps to help smallholder farmers.
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From Monsanto to Smithfield Foods to Safeway, a look at how food industry incumbents are swallowing a wave of change.
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Tule Technologies, Rubicon Water and other ag-tech companies as well as university and government researchers have devised tools to grow more food with less water.
by Matt Weiser
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The FAA has approved more than 800 tests of unmanned aerial vehicles, dozens of them for potential precision agriculture.
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Startup Farmers Business Network, which currently analyzes 16 crops, has raised nearly $28 million from the likes of Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures and DBL Investors.