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New Forests enters Vietnamese timber industry

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... glue laminated timber, and FSC-certified wood pellets. To do this, Tavico has partnered with several local small holder farmers to create a 3200-hectare FSC-certified community forestry program. The investment from New Forests will help expand the program ...

Australia's $800bn food industry has highest hidden costs per capita

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... Australia report, CSIRO urges a new approach to managing and reporting on our food system to ease challenges faced by farmers, meet critical sustainable challenges and more. CSIRO believes there are "multiple perspectives and scales" from which food ...

Bill Gates to give away wealth in next 20 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... schools, particularly to assist in overcoming barriers facing Black and Latino students. The foundation is also working with farmers to develop new, more resilient seeds to continue to yield crops as more difficult climate conditions are experienced ...

Green moves: Agscent, HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... technologies and point-of-care diagnostic breath devices for livestock. "Agscent's innovative technology is empowering farmers and industry stakeholders with real-time, actionable data-supporting smarter, data-driven decisions around productivity, profitability ...

FarmCap enhances lending solutions for farmers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Non-bank lender FarmCap has launched a private credit agricultural mortgage fund to help Australian farmers access financing. The FarmCap Private Credit Agricultural Mortgage Fund is a diversified portfolio of mortgage-backed loans and is being launched ...

Australia's ecosystems get a dollar value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... valued at $40.4 billion. ABS head of environment statistics Jonathon Khoo said this figure represents the estimated amount farmers saved by feeding their livestock things like grass growing on their land. Meanwhile, water provisioning - the supply of ...

Green moves: Re-Vi, Aware Super, Insignia Financial

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... stakeholders. "It will provide investment and jobs for the Kangaroo Island community and supply biochar to Australian farmers to improve their soils and productivity. She expects Re-Vi to produce two million tonnes of carbon dioxide removal credits that ...

QIC backs 'redefining' autonomous farming solutions

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... SwarmFarm's 145 deployed SwarmBots have already operated over seven million hectares of commercial farmland and have saved farmers more than 300,000 labour hours. The drones have also displaced a substantial number of pesticides, QIC said. QIC Ventures ...

Investors and business leaders call for end to 'weak' net zero pledge

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Impact Investments, Climate Capital Forum, Rewiring Australia, Climate Analytics, UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, Farmers for Climate Action, and Moir Group. Experts call for stronger action Future Group said real zero emissions targets provide ...

Carbon market responds to integrity concerns

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Human Induced Regeneration (HIR) method, which refers to revegetation of grazing land as a means of sequestering carbon. Farmers interviewed in the article said they now regard the companies they've "got into bed with" as "cowboys, predators or parasites" ...
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