The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reversed its decision to protect children from developmental disabilities and autism resulting from exposure to a neurotoxic pesticide that was scheduled to be banned in March.
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“The water crisis is sneaking up on humanity unawares. People turn on the tap and assume clean, safe water will always flow. But the reality is that supplies are already critical for 4.2 billion people – over half the world’s population…”
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A team from the Ceres Regional Center for Fruit and Vegetable Innovation in Chile has won the first-ever $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Foundation “Ray of Hope” Prize in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge.
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Water scarcity is a top risk to global prosperity and ecological integrity. But creative impact investment solutions, such as Water Sharing Investment Partnerships, can shift water back to the environment, while supporting irrigated agriculture and meeting urban needs, finds new research presented during World Water Week in Stockholm.
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Globally, 1.2 billion people depend on agroforestry farming systems, especially in developing countries, the World Bank calculates. Yet, trees on farms are not even considered in the greenhouse gas accounting framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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More than 800,000 signatures against patents on plants, animals and seeds were handed to officials of the European Patent Office on June 29, as the EPO’s Administrative Council held a meeting in Munich.
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Water scarcity is a real and present danger for the two-thirds of the global population – four billion people – who live without enough water for at least one month of each year. Half a billion face severe water scarcity all year round.
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Smallholder households, cultivating less than five acres, have financial needs that have been ignored until now, yet without this information, it’s tough for financial service providers to supply smallholders with services, such as mobile money.
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Apples, mangoes and almonds are delicious, pollinator-dependent foods, but bees and other pollinators worldwide are disappearing, driven toward extinction by the pressures of living with humans.
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Climate change-ready rice seeds of several varieties have reached millions of farmers in Asia and Africa under a forward-looking program known as Stress-Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia, or STRASA.
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Pressures on our natural resources are getting bigger—and the consequences of depleting them are getting clearer—but a global movement for sustainability is now encouraging an explosion in the kind of responsible resource businesses that belong in our impact portfolios.
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The big corporations, governments and NGOs will continue to be active in agriculture, but there are still opportunities for impact investors.
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Mike McCreless,Root Capital’s director of strategy and impact, talks to Maximpact about the importance of agriculture, Root Capital’s impressive track record and what’s coming for agricultural impact investing in the future.
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Agriculture: With a global food crisis on the horizon, NGOs, development agencies and multinationals are all rushing to find ways to increase production.Yet impact investors still have a vital role to play in ensuring our future food security.
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