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14-Jan-2025 | science

Climate fee on food could effectively cut greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture while ensuring a social balance

Agriculture accounts for 8 percent of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Germany. “However, emissions within this sector, could be reduced by 22.5 ...

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06-Jan-2025 | business & finance

Growing divide: Agricultural climate policies affect food prices differently in poor and wealthy countries

“In high-income countries like the U.S. or Germany, farmers receive less than a quarter of food spending, compared to over 70 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa ...

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28-Mar-2024 | science

Food matters: Healthy diets increase the economic and physical feasibility of 1.5°C

“We find that a more sustainable, flexitarian diet increases the feasibility of the Paris Agreement climate goals in different ways,” says Florian ...

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31-Jan-2024 | science

Transforming food systems could create multi-trillion dollars of economic benefits every year

Transforming food systems around the world would lead to socio-economic benefits summing up to 5 to 10 trillion USD a year

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18-May-2022 | science

Sustainability in the food system: not simply less, but different and better

Proponents of a no-growth economy have long argued that economic growth as such is harmful to the environment. Now researchers have shown that curbing ...

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06-May-2022 | science

Fungi-based meat alternatives to help save Earth’s forests

Green biotechnology needs to be fuelled by green energy

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28-Mar-2022 | science

Forests, food, pandemics and the extinction of species: research network publishes "10 Must Knows" on biodiversity

"10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science”, ranging from climate stress for forests to the corona virus that has jumped from animals to humans, are now ...

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22-Mar-2022 | science

Food crisis due to Ukraine war calls for demand-side action: less animal products, less waste, and greening EU agricultural policy

The global food system is impacted by the war in Ukraine, adding to the direct humanitarian and security crisis caused by the Russian aggression. Ukraine ...

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