Agriculture News
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Has the spring sprung for China’s crop biodiversity?Maintaining crop genetic diversity needs the involvement of farming communities, and a system for sharing the benefits with them. -
FMC Corporation appoints Shahid Saleem as first Asia Pacific sustainability headThe appointment aims to build resilience across the business, says the agrichemicals firm.
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Fonterra sustainability director Carolyn Mortland steps down as dairy firm restructures functionFood & Agriculture
Fonterra sustainability director Carolyn Mortland steps down as dairy firm restructures function
Mortland is moving on after 19 years to pursue a family business as the dairy giant rethinks how sustainability is managed. -
No end in sight for deforestation, as national goals and funding fall shortCountries have invested just 0.5% and 5% of the estimated US$460 billion per year needed to conserve, manage and revive the planet's forests since 2010, according to a new report.
Agriculture Opinion
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How to avert a climate catastrophe– Global efforts involving awareness-raising, nudging, and shaming are necessary but not sufficient to prevent a climate crisis. Addressing the problem more effectively requires international governance arrangements that amount to a new social contract on global public goods. -
The corporate capture of the UN Food Summit– Transnational agribusiness firms are contributing to a growing global hunger crisis, causing widespread environmental damage, and threatening people’s health. By also capturing the United Nations Food Systems Summit, they have restricted the meeting's agenda to solutions that will further inflate corporate profits. -
Closing the nature-finance gap– Although the biodiversity crisis is intimately linked to the climate one, the financing to address it is woefully inadequate. With a new global biodiversity plan now in the works, the world has an opportunity – and a duty – to start making up for lost time.
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