CALGARY, ALBERTA, Oct 26, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Viterra Inc. (“Viterra”) /quotes/comstock/11t!e:vt (CA:VT 9.88, +0.13, +1.33%) (asx:VTA) is pleased to announce that its carbon credit program has aggregated over one million offsets, representing over $10 million paid to Alberta farmers, since its launch in March, 2008. Viterra purchases and aggregates carbon offset credits, based [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Farming’
Viterra Reaches Carbon Credit Milestone
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, No Till Farming on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Should the next green revolution be brown?
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Philanthropist Howard Buffett Could the next green revolution be brown? Philanthropist Howard Buffett, who has joined Microsoft founder Bill Gatesin pouring money into agriculture development, used an appearance at the World Food Prize symposium on Wednesday to call for a “brown revolution” that would involve boosting food production through improving the soil. And the theme [...]
Adapting agriculture to mitigate climate change
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, August 23, 2010 From droughts in Mexico to floods in Pakistan and deadly heat in the US, extreme weather events are increasing due to global warming. Experts have stated concern that these could lead to instability in global agriculture markets and even conflicts over food, similar to those seen in 2007 and 2008. In [...]
UN launches decade-long drive to combat desertification
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, soil, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, Farming, investment, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
16 August 2010 – The United Nations today unveiled a decade-long push to raise awareness and mobilize action to fight desertification, which threatens the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people in 100 countries. Desertification is defined as the degradation of drylands, which comprise more than 40 per cent of the world’s land surface [...]
What is the importance of agriculture?
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The idea of ‘food security’ is basically important, and for that cause, agriculture is important. The task of nourishing its people has been possibly the main concern of its rulers throughout history. As such, agriculture is measured to be the very basis of political and social steadiness of a nation since times immemorial. Agriculture is [...]
Benefits of the Vesco”Terra-Glide” Technology
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, Sustainable on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Terra-Glide Technology systems have evolved from concept to reality, now looking to deliver measurable financial and ecological benefits to the world of agriculture – a world that has been thrust into an era where true conservation of the world’s farmlands using sustainable agriculture methods is no longer an option, but a necessity. Terra-Glide is a revolutionary no-tillage [...]
Feed the Future: A U.S. Commitment Against Poverty and Hunger
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, tagged Agriculture, Farming, investment, Sustainable on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Phillip Kurata Washington — The U.S. government, backed by U.S. scientists and corporations, is investing money and energy into reducing global hunger and poverty on a huge scale by 2015. A State Department official overseeing the Feed the Future program, Patricia Haslach, told a congressional subcommittee July 20 that President Obama’s pledge of $3.5 [...]
What is Sustainable Agriculture?
Posted in Agriculture, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, Farming, Green house gas emissions, investment, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Agriculture has changed dramatically, especially since the end of World War II. Food and fiber productivity soared due to new technologies, mechanization, increased chemical use, specialization and government policies that favored maximizing production. These changes allowed fewer farmers with reduced labor demands to produce the majority of the food and fiber in the U.S. Although [...]
Vesco Agricultural Technologies…Setting a new standard in No-Till farming equipment. Legal and Legislative factors
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, investment, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Farming has generally been an unregulated activity. The primary legal and legislative involvement has been in the approval and regulation of chemical sprays and fertilizers. That is now changing. Farmers are finding that environmental concerns are leading to legal and legislative impacts on their business activities. This fact was highlighted as long ago as February 11, [...]
Securing carbon in our soil
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Nicole Schuetz Better farming practices can improve crop yield and lock up greenhouse gases Everybody knows plants store carbon. But soils do too. That’s the idea behind organic no-till farming, a cultivation technique that could dramatically increase soil carbon storage across the globe. Research has shown organic farming methods sequester more carbon per acre [...]
