Tag: Sustainable Farming

We need diversity for healthy diets and ecosystems.

We need diversity for healthy diets and ecosystems

Monocropping is the practice of growing one crop on the same land year after year. This technique has obvious advantages for farmers, they can grow large quantities of their most profitable crop, using the same machinery, seeds, pesticides and methods. But, sadly this method of farming leaves the soil depleted of nutrients, forcing farmers to […]

The EU is greening it’s supply chain!

Oil palms beside tropical rainforest

  Earlier this week a draft law was announced requiring companies supplying the bloc to prove that their agricultural products were not linked to deforestation.     The regulation is targeted at commodities where consumption by Europe’s 450 million consumers contributes the most to deforestation; including Beef, wood, palm oil, soy, coffee and cocoa.  Nico Muzi, […]