Guinness has designed a three-year agriculture pilot as part of efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of its barley production. The pilot will involve 40 barley farms and will focus mostly on the adoption of regenerative farming practices.
28.03.2022
As part of our new quickfire questions series - or QFQs - we spoke to Seafields Executive John Auckland about the company's mission to remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
25.11.2021
The UK should increase its support of alternative protein research, which currently stands at £90M ($125M), in order to help combat climate change, according to a report from think-tank the Social Market Foundation.
20.09.2021
Infarm is building its second UK Growing Centre, which it claims will be among Europe’s largest with more than 9,760 sq m of space. The site will be located in Bedford, with its first crops of herbs and salads expected in Q4 2021. Infarm plans to construct 100 centres in major cities globally by 2025.
30.08.2021
Maddyness is partnering with environmental publication Ours to Save to bring readers fresh perspectives on sustainability. Today, we look into how Kristine Tompkins and her team are rewilding ecosystems in Chile and Argentina.
06.05.2021
UK startup Deep Branch has raised €8m ($9.5m) to convert CO2 into animal feed to combat the deforestation caused by soya being grown for conventional feed. Deep Branch’s system feeds hydrogen and carbon into a microorganism to produce a high-value protein that can be transformed into animal feed pellets.
29.03.2021
2019’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show might have had some impressively manicured moss courtesy of Ishihara’s Green Switch garden and the meadow-like wilderness of Kate Middleton’s Back to Nature garden, but it was Tom Dixon’s Research Studio collaboration with Ikea that caught our eye. This Sci-Fi-like garden helped bring the future farm into the foreground, demonstrating the benefits of hydroponics and giving both food producers and enterprising at-home gardeners something to think about.
28.01.2020