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=====Investors say agroforestry isn’t just climate friendly — it’s profitable===== | |||
By Stephanie Hanes | |||
August 10, 2020 | |||
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The trio created Propagate Ventures, a company that offers farmers software-based economic analysis, on-the-ground project management and investor financing to help add trees and tree crops to agricultural models. One of Propagate’s key goals, Steinberg explained, was to get capital from interested investors to the farmers who need it — something he saw as a longtime barrier to such tree-based agriculture. | |||
Propagate quickly started attracting attention. Over the past two years, the group, based in New York and Colorado, has expanded into eight states, primarily in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. It is working with 20 farms. In late May, it announced that it had received $1.5 million in seed funding from Boston-based Neglected Climate Opportunities, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust. | |||
=====AS CLIMATE CHANGE MAKES GROWING SEASONS LESS PREDICTABLE, SCIENTISTS DIG INTO A NOVEL APPROACH TO BOOSTING CROP RESILIENCE===== | =====AS CLIMATE CHANGE MAKES GROWING SEASONS LESS PREDICTABLE, SCIENTISTS DIG INTO A NOVEL APPROACH TO BOOSTING CROP RESILIENCE===== | ||
<embed> https://ensia.com/articles/crop-plants-resilience-climate-change-food-security </embed> Allison Gacad @allisongacad June 2020 Ensia | <embed> https://ensia.com/articles/crop-plants-resilience-climate-change-food-security </embed> Allison Gacad @allisongacad June 2020 Ensia | ||
