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Sustainability moving from "why" to "how": Banksia Foundation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... for entry deadline for consideration at the Banksia Awards is 15 December. For more information, click here. Meat and Livestock Australia sustainability frameworks and stakeholders manager Edwina Clowes noted that collective action across the meat industry ...

New Climate Action 100 engagement to tackle food and beverage sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... supply chain and the emissions also, a large proportion of them are at the farm level, from agricultural production - livestock, fertiliser and land use, and there is a real need to have engagement on the deepest levels of supply chain," Richards said. ...

Australia on global list for deforestation hotspots: WWF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... 2018, eastern Australia remains a deforestation front. That will not change until we see rates of destruction go down." Livestock grazing and forestry clearing are the two biggest contributors to deforestation in Eastern Australia, Taylor said. With ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... of native vegetation to protect the ecological value of the State significant wetlands. Achieved through a change in livestock management by moving from set stocking to rotational grazing as part of the project's activities. Improvement in water ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... capital] factors," said Carlos Cacho, economist, UBS. "They took into account the damage to timber and forestry and livestock, but not land and water quality." There is a need for more holistic modelling and development of calculations to include damage ...

Meat and fish producers not managing ESG risks: FAIRR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... surveyed are not providing evidence to show they're measuring or reporting on their greenhouse emissions, even though livestock production represents 14.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions globally and agriculture overall. The FAIRR Protein Producers ...

Red Meat Advisory Council developing sustainability framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... wellbeing of people, animals and the environment," she said. "We have to focus on health of course, because we're a livestock industry, and we are also focusing on progress, which is about continuous improvement." The four themes also derive from the ...

Australian Ethical Investment engages on sustainability of meat

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... about material risks in the growing demand for animal protein and the overreliance on"unsustainable factory farming of livestock" to meet that demand, and cite a briefing, The future of food - the investment case for a protein shake up', produced by ...

Farming, forestry activities proposed for CFI positive list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... and Energy Efficiency, " intensive rotational grazing is a system of stock management that can reduce emissions from livestock, reduce the need for fertiliser, and increase the carbon content of soils and above-ground biomass. Examples include cell grazing ...

CDP: U.S. farmers' GHG disclosures and management varied

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... using natural gas, which releases carbon dioxide, and because fertilizers emit nitrous oxide when applied to crops; livestock, which produce methane through digestion; and fuel combustion and electricity use. The report suggested several examples that ...