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Pages tagged "agriculture"


Spotlight: Happy Family Organics' Support Farmers with the Launch of their Regenerative Farmer Fund

Posted on Blog by Caitlin Oleson · November 09, 2020 11:28 AM · 1 reaction

In 2018, we shared details on Happy Family Organics’ regenerative agriculture farmer training pilot (see the full blog here). The program set out to provide free technical support and guidance to farmers in Happy Family Organics’ supply chain on how they could shift to practices that can help store more carbon in the soil, improve watershed health, support biodiversity while also improving overall soil health and land productivity. The project fit into the brand’s larger ambition to help reverse the climate crisis through supply chain reductions and on-farm carbon sequestration.

Two years later, they've completed a second pilot and have now launched a Regenerative Farmer Fund to provide ongoing support to farmers in their supply chain. We sat down with their Sustainability Director, Katie Clark, to learn more.

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Spotlight: General Mills' Approach to Regenerative Agriculture

Posted on Blog by Caitlin Oleson · October 13, 2020 6:31 AM · 1 reaction
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Mary Jane Melendez

Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer, 

General Mills

Our Director Erin Callahan caught up with Mary Jane Melendez from General Mills about their regenerative agriculture work and their plans for the future! Read their conversation below.

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Spotlight: Nutiva takes on Packaging & Regenerative Agriculture

Posted on Blog by Caitlin Oleson · September 30, 2020 5:34 AM · 1 reaction

Nutiva was one of the first companies to join the Climate Collaborative in 2017 and has made five climate action commitments, to: Regenerative Agriculture, Energy Efficiency, Food Waste, Packaging, and Transportation. They are also a champion-level donor, helping catalyze action and resource provision to our network of 660 companies. We sat down with them to check in on their climate action, detailed in their new 2019 Impact Report.

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Policy at the Farm Level: Unlocking Barriers to Adopting Regenerative Agricultural Practices

Posted on Blog by Caitlin Oleson · June 29, 2020 1:49 PM

 

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Interview with Elizabeth Whitlow from the Regenerative Organic Alliance

Posted on Blog by Caitlin Oleson · April 20, 2020 1:41 PM

 

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Straus Family Creamery: Building a Business Case for Regenerative Agriculture

Posted on Case Studies by Caitlin Oleson · September 03, 2019 2:36 PM

You can download a version of this case study here.

The Power of Carbon Farming to Mitigate Climate Change

Agriculture accounts for 15% of global emissions, and carbon farming practices such as composting, cover cropping, and rotational grazing have significant potential to start reversing that number. Project Drawdown has shown that carbon farming or regenerative agriculture practices are the 11th most powerful tool in humanity’s tool kit to mitigate global warming.

As of this writing, 151 companies have committed to implement these practices through the Climate Collaborative. Many of those companies are struggling with how to engage farmers in their supply chains to begin a shift toward adopting carbon building practices. This is, in part, because while the climate case is clear, the business case is still being developed.

Straus Family Creamery— a pioneer in carbon farming and many other sustainable practices— set out to change that. Straus has started to build an unprecedented financial case for carbon farming and ranchland management.

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Case Study: Reducing Food Waste Through Supplier Engagement

Posted on Case Studies by Caitlin Oleson · September 03, 2019 2:04 PM

You can download a version of this case study here.

The Climate Potential of Food Waste Reduction

pom.jpgA third of all food produced globally goes to waste, accounting for 4.4 gigatonnes of GHG emissions. If food waste were its own country, it would rank third-highest in emissions of all the countries on Earth![1]

Food waste emissions are created through the process of growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, and refrigerating food, then transporting it again to its final resting place—the landfill—where it rots, creating more GHG emissions. Food waste also represents a tremendous waste of resources including water, cropland, fuel, fertilizer and human labor, making it not only terrible for the environment but also a significant financial loss for brands, retailers and consumers!

Situated between producers, distributors and consumers, retailers have a unique potential to impact emissions both upstream and down, by working with all of these parties to minimize food loss and waste. BriarPatch Food Co-op, a community-owned business in Grass Valley, California, has pioneered a successful effort to minimize waste at the source by working with local producers.

 

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General Mills launches a Regenerative Agriculture Self-Assessment Tool

Posted on Blog by Erin Callahan · August 09, 2019 5:02 PM

Up to 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions stems from the food system, an estimated 80% of which comes from agriculture.[1] Nearly 200 companies in our community are working to reduce their agricultural footprint through carbon farming practices. Among them, CC committee company General Mills is going one step further to create an open-source self-assessment tool for any farmer to use to identify and boost their regenerative agricultural practices.

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The Regenerative Toolbox: Developing and Implementing Self-Assessment Tools

Posted on Blog by Caitlin Oleson · July 29, 2019 10:02 AM

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Spotlight: Danone North America

Posted on Blog by Erin Callahan · August 20, 2018 2:35 PM

In April 2018, Climate Collaborative committed company Danone North America became the largest company in the world to earn B Corp™ Certification. The company has made commitments to agriculture, energy efficiency, food waste, forests, packaging, policy engagement, and transportation through the Climate Collaborative.

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