La Fundación Global Nature (España), Global Nature Fund, la Fundación del Lago de Constanza, Agentur AUF! (Alemania), Solagro, agence good (Francia) y el Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) desarrollando el proyecto europeo LIFE “Biodiversidad en Estándares y Etiquetas en la Industria Agroalimentaria”. El principal objetivo es mejorar los aspectos relacionados con la biodiversidad de estándares y etiquetas del sector agroalimentario, apoyando a organizaciones diversas para que incluyan criterios de biodiversidad en sus estándares y promoviendo que las empresas productoras y distribuidoras incluyan dichos criterios en sus guías de aprovisionamiento.
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Funded by the LIFE Programmeof the European Union
Interview from Food + Tech Connect: General Mills on Why Biodiversity is Key to Success
The future of food is a biodiverse, sitting at the intersection of taste and sustainability. Biodiversity ensures the food industry can delight eaters with new and exciting foods from a diverse set of cultures, while also safeguarding our ecosystems and the genetic diversity required to ensure crops can evolve to better face threats like pests and disease, climate change and extreme weather.
Improving global food security: Bayreuth study on phosphorus availability controlled by silicon
Agricultural yields around the world can be more sustainable by using silicon to mobilize soil phosphorus, making it available for plants. Phosphorus-based fertilizers, which are environmentally damaging and a limited global resource, could conceivably become redundant for some years at a time. This is what researchers at the Universities of Bayreuth and Copenhagen have discovered investigating soils in the Arctic.
Agriculture and climate protection
According to a HU Study, the production and consumption of agricultural products have a greater relevance for climate change and climate protection than previously assumed