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Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture News highlights the latest initiatives, research, and practices aimed at creating a more environmentally friendly and resilient food system.

Covering topics such as regenerative farming, organic practices, water conservation, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity, this category focuses on innovations that promote sustainability across the agriculture sector. Learn about new technologies, policy developments, and industry efforts to reduce the environmental impact of farming, improve soil health, and support local ecosystems.

Stay informed on the approaches and solutions driving sustainable agriculture forward to meet the challenges of climate change, resource scarcity, and global food security.

Agricultural biogas moved from a farm-sustainability project to a financed energy asset class, with stakeholders underwriting the build-out

Agricultural Biogas: How Farm Waste Became an Energy Asset Class

For most of its history, manure management was a cost line on a dairy’s balance sheet — something to store, spread, and stay compliant about. That framing has changed. Over the past two years, iGrow News has tracked oil majors signing joint ventures to build anaerobic digesters, infrastructure funds buying the developers that operate them,

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Alabaster International, JKUAT and partners harvested the first cultivated enset plant ever grown in Kenya on July 6, 2026

Alabaster International Leads First Enset Harvest in Kenya

Alabaster International, JKUAT and partners harvested the first cultivated enset plant ever grown in Kenya on July 6, 2026

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Entropy Inc., a subsidiary of Advantage Energy Ltd., has commissioned the Glacier Phase 2 co-generation, carbon capture and storage project at Advantage's Glacier Gas Plant in Saddle Hills County, Alberta. The project provides a new 15 MW co-generation installation with fully integrated carbon capture, transportation and storage, building on earlier capture systems that have operated at the site since 2022 and integrating CCS across a total of 45 MW.

Entropy Commissions Glacier Phase 2 Carbon Capture and Power Project

Entropy Inc., a subsidiary of Advantage Energy Ltd., has commissioned the Glacier Phase 2 co-generation, carbon capture and storage project at Advantage's Glacier Gas Plant in Saddle Hills County, Alberta. The project provides a new 15 MW co-generation installation with fully integrated carbon capture, transportation and storage, building on earlier capture systems that have operated

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PureField Ingredients today announced the appointment of Luciano Salvatierra as CFO as it continues to scale.

PureField Ingredients Opens Carbon Capture Facility in Kansas, Plans Expansion

PureField Ingredients today announced the appointment of Luciano Salvatierra as CFO as it continues to scale.

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Satelligence, a satellite-powered geo-data analytics company based in Utrecht, Netherlands, announced on July 30, 2026 what it calls the agricultural commodity sector's first cross-commodity methodology for Deforestation- and Conversion-Free, or DCF, sourcing assessments. DCF assessments are used to confirm that forest and non-forest risk commodities, including palm oil, coffee, cocoa and soy, have not caused deforestation or the conversion of natural ecosystems.

Satelligence Publishes First Cross-Commodity Deforestation-Free Sourcing Methodology

Satelligence, a satellite-powered geo-data analytics company based in Utrecht, Netherlands, announced on July 30, 2026 what it calls the agricultural commodity sector's first cross-commodity methodology for Deforestation- and Conversion-Free, or DCF, sourcing assessments. DCF assessments are used to confirm that forest and non-forest risk commodities, including palm oil, coffee, cocoa and soy, have not caused

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Mars & ofi launched a five-year strategic collaboration to advance climate-smart & regenerative ag practices in Ecuador's cocoa production.

Mars Brings Shubh Mint Programme Sourcing Into European Chewing Gum Supply Chain

Mars is bringing natural menthol sourced through its Shubh Mint programme into its European chewing gum supply chain, beginning to integrate the ingredient into manufacturing operations in the UK and Poland. Mint is a key ingredient across several of Mars' global brands, but roughly 80% of the world's natural menthol originates from a single region,

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From Adolf Goetzberger's concept to BlueWave's latest hire, here's how agrivoltaics became a real corporate and investment category by 2026.

Is Agrivoltaics the Future of Farming? Inside the Trends In 2026

From Adolf Goetzberger's 1981 concept to BlueWave's latest executive hire, here's how agrivoltaics became a real corporate and investment category by 2026.

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SmartSolve, a water-soluble packaging maker based in Bowling Green, Ohio, has introduced PureNil 0, a plastic-free, 100% bio-based, printable, and flushable paper-based pouching material, into a new round of agricultural applications. PureNil 0 became commercially available in January 2026 and has since been adopted in personal care, home cleaning, and healthcare packaging; the company says it has now gained traction in agriculture, spanning crop protection, fertigation, biologicals, soil amendments, seed and planting, and consumer lawn and garden products.

SmartSolve Launches Plastic-Free PureNil 0 Packaging for Agriculture

SmartSolve, a water-soluble packaging maker based in Bowling Green, Ohio, has introduced PureNil 0, a plastic-free, 100% bio-based, printable, and flushable paper-based pouching material, into a new round of agricultural applications. PureNil 0 became commercially available in January 2026 and has since been adopted in personal care, home cleaning, and healthcare packaging; the company says

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Agreena AgreenaCarbon Project received a BBB ex post BeZero Carbon Rating on July 20, 2026, confirming the BBB.pre forecast

Agreena’s AgreenaCarbon Project Earns Top BeZero Carbon Rating

Agreena has achieved verification of its Scope 3 project from SustainCERT, marking the completion of its dual pathway verification model.

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Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ADUR; TSX: ACT; FSE: 9D5), which converts feedstocks such as waste plastics, heavy bitumen and renewable oils into new resources, said its collaboration with ECOCE, A.C. has moved into its next phase after completing Phase 1 feedstock mapping and stream selection. Selected post-consumer flexible plastic packaging streams collected in Mexico are now entering a Hydrochemolytic™ Technology (HCT) test campaign to evaluate their conversion into liquid hydrocarbon products for circular plastics applications.

Aduro Clean Technologies Advances ECOCE Plastics Recycling Collaboration to Testing Phase

Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ADUR; TSX: ACT; FSE: 9D5), which converts feedstocks such as waste plastics, heavy bitumen and renewable oils into new resources, said its collaboration with ECOCE, A.C. has moved into its next phase after completing Phase 1 feedstock mapping and stream selection. Selected post-consumer flexible plastic packaging streams collected in Mexico

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