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Richest 20 nations urged to lead on nature protection with more finance

UN report finds wealthiest nations aren’t leading on this important issue

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Thomson Reuters Foundation – The world’s 20 richest nations should more than double their annual spending to protect and restore nature to $285 billion by 2050, the United Nations and donors said on Jan. 27, calling for private and overseas investments to be ramped up too. In a first joint report on finance for nature
Sites like the Princes Creek Dam on Swan Lake First Nation have become a major location for the federal Living Labs initiative.
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How First Nations priorities are informing novel ag practices

Swan Lake First Nation is a major player in a multi-stakeholder initiative looking for new solutions on land and water management

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The goal was to capture the best of both worlds — a productive agriculture landscape while protecting the surrounding natural ecosystem. The unlikely scene is 13 acres of potato land, owned by Swan Lake First Nation (SLFN), and rented out to a neighbouring farmer. The land has newly installed tile drainage to manage water and
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Meat and dairy gobble up farming subsidies worldwide

But that’s bad both for your health and the planet’s sustainability

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The global food system is in disarray. Animal agriculture is a major driver of global heating, and as many as 12 million deaths from heart disease, stroke, cancers and diabetes are each year connected to eating the wrong things, like too much red and processed meat and too few fruits and vegetables. Unless the world
Riparian buffer zones might be attractive from a simplicity perspective, but they’ll need to be just part of the run-off solution.
Crops

An unfiltered take on riparian areas

Buffer zones aren’t a silver bullet for managing and treating field run-off

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Brandon University environmental science researcher Alex Koiter is a fan of riparian areas for a lot of reasons. They help prevent stream bank erosion. They’re hot spots for biodiversity and provide corridors for wildlife to move. They have a role in flood management. But if agriculture is looking for a solution on nutrient run-off, he
Ajay Dalai says a process to pelletize canola meal is now ready for commercialization.
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Heating homes with canola meal

This byproduct of crushing could soon be replacing coal and natural gas

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A project to turn canola meal into home heat through pelletization is ready for its next step. Ajay Dalai, a Canada Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan, says they’re now ready to scale up pellet production and enter commercialization. He says the product could find a market as an eco-friendly replacement for coal and
Renewable diesel is going to be a game changer for Canada’s favourite oilseed. Here’s how.
News, Oilseeds

Canada’s ‘Cinderella crop’ keeps on delivering for farmers

The crop that built a reputation for its high-quality food oil, is expected to see big demand close to home as a low-carbon, renewable fuel

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Canada needs more canola. There’s the traditional food market for canola oil, but the renewable fuel market is catching fire — and that’s good for farmers and Canada’s economy, says Chris Vervaet, executive director of the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA). But more canola seed is needed to take full advantage of the new crushing
Farmer Dave Gruenbaum plants corn as he terminates off-season cover crops with a roller near Plain City, Ohio, May 2021.
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Farming for the climate

U.S. growers embrace cover crops while eyeing low-carbon future

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Reuters – Illinois farmer Jack McCormick planted 350 acres of barley and radishes last fall as part of an off-season crop that he does not intend to harvest. Instead, the crops will be killed off with a weed killer next spring before McCormick plants soybeans in the same dirt. The barley and radishes will not
The RFS’s clearest success has been boosting income for corn and soybean farmers and related agricultural firms.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: U.S. biofuel mandate helps farmers, but does little else

Research shows it does little for energy security and harms the environment

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If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade, you’ve put biofuel in your tank. Thanks to the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, almost all gasoline sold in the U.S. is required to contain 10 per cent ethanol – a fuel made from plant sources, mainly corn. With the recent
We have entered the all-hands-on-deck phase to quickly mitigate the devastating effects of the climate emergency.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Why carbon capture and storage is key

It will allow us to adapt more quickly and completely, to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency

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With the ongoing climate emergency, there’s a heightened need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions through whatever means possible. Despite this, carbon capture technologies have been labelled as a distraction from supporting renewable energies and as extending the life of the oil and gas industry. But this is a technology we cannot ignore. It concentrates
A report from the Smart Prosperity Institute says a well-targeted, comprehensive package of policies is needed for the agriculture sector to promote economic growth while reducing environmental harm.
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Debating carbon decrease priorities

There’s discussion among agriculture organizations on how to measure the sector’s contributions

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Glacier FarmMedia – Should agriculture’s decreases in carbon emissions be based on intensity of use per unit of food, or measured in the total volume of reductions? That’s the crux of a philosophical discussion happening in agriculture and showcased by competing reports on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture. Why it matters: How

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