Fairfood Friday #69

Every Friday we round up the most interesting, inspiring or funny stories we came across while conducting research for our news stories. This week: Sustainability lessons from China: low footprint fish farms.

Would you be surprised to learn that China is a world leader in sustainable seafood?  This video shows how fish farmers in China use some ingenious and low impact traditional methods to produce more fish than any other country.

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Sustainability lessons from China: low footprint fish farms
Would you be surprised to learn that China is a world leader in sustainable seafood?  This video shows how fish farmers in China use some ingenious and low impact traditional methods to produce more fish than any other country.

Is a Big Happy Cow a Profitable Cow?
Anthropomorphising cattle won’t improve farm animal welfare: agribusiness needs a business reason to reform.

African Farmers Adapting to Withstand Climate Stresses
Given the studies projecting how greenhouse-driven warming will worsen drought and heat in regions that already tend to be dry and hot, it’s encouraging to see signs in one hard-hit African region of farmers’ capacity to shift practices to deal with intensifying climatic stresses.

Small Forage Fish Species Worth 20 Percent of Global Fisheries
In a comprehensive analysis of dozens of food web models from around the planet, scientists from the State University of New York at Stony Brook calculated that these small fish contribute $16.9 billion to global fisheries each year.

The global land grab is the next human rights challenge for business
As demand for bio-fuels and pressure to feed the world’s population incre.ses, multi-sector collaboration will be crucial to ensuring local farmers hold on to their land.

Energy From Floating Algae Pods
Call it “fuel without fossils”: Jonathan Trent is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat wastewater from cities. Hear his team’s bold vision for Project OMEGA (Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae) and how it might power the future.

Barometer Innovation
From monitoring your fridge to edible packaging, these breakthroughs are changing the way we live.

Chain Stores Said to Lead Firms in Use of Sun Power
The aisles of a typical Walgreens drugstore are stacked with products promoting their green attributes, whether they are towels made from recycled paper or makeup brushes made from fast-growing grass. But increasingly, on the roof, a less visible green endeavor is under way, in the form of solar panels feeding power to the store. 

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