The United Soybean Board’s January 2016 issue of its magazine, Beyond the Bean, centers on the theme of soy sustainability. Articles include: Ready, Willing and Sustainable: Soybean farmers are meeting…
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In a ranking of the environmental performance of Swiss food retail supermarket chains, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) held up Coop and Migros as “pioneers” for tackling sustainability and greenhouse gas…
Biogas, a valuable source of energy, is part of the U.S. strategy to reduce emissions of methane – a potent greenhouse gas with more than 25 times the global warming…
The United States has been practicing sustainability long before it became the issue it is today.
The level of farm output in the United States more than doubled between 1948 and 2013, growing at an average annual rate of 1.52 percent. The latest data from the…
Dutch NGO, Youth Food Movement (YFM), has accused Unilever and other food producers of using sustainability initiatives mainly to cut costs rather than benefit people and the environment, reports SIGWatch…
Alexa Tonkovich has been appointed the new Executive Director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI), a member since its inception of the U.S. Sustainability Alliance. Ms. Tonkovich was formerly…
Google Maps and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will work together to provide more accessible geospatial tracking and mapping products that will help countries tackle climate change and promote environmental…
“When life is whizzing by it’s easy to forget about sustainability,” says Steve Maddox. “But when you live and work here, sustainability is more than a catch phrase; it’s a way of life. It’s all around us. That’s how our story starts.”
On November 22, a shipment of U.S.-certified sustainable soybeans was unloaded in Guangdong Province in China. U.S. Secretary for Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, who was visiting China, observed the unloading of…
The European Commission will hold a two-day agricultural outlook conference to provide an opportunity for a broad exchange of views on the state of agriculture and the global issues which lie ahead….
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the availability of $350 million to help landowners protect and restore grasslands, wetlands and farmland across the nation. The funding is provided through the Agricultural…
The U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) has released a new interactive, web-based infographic illustrating key conservation practices developed and adopted by U.S. soybean farmers across the nation. A U.S. soybean…
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has released a report, Raising the Bar – Advancing Environmental Disclosure in Sustainability Reporting, which calls on companies to do more to address the environmental…
New European Union (EU) farm rules that aim to boost wildlife and protect natural resources such as soil and water are failing to reverse the loss of wild flowers from fields,…
