Reality check: the climate cost of commodities

Here are a few stories that caught our eye this week:

‘For farmers, fail fast is fail forever,’ JBS’ head of sustainability shares why agtech can miss the mark
Article by AgTech Navigator

Creating a sustainable agri-food supply chain requires collaboration across industry stakeholders, with a specific focus on ensuring agtech can actually deliver results for farmers and ranchers

Article by Sustainability Magazine

Chocolate producer Mars is accelerating cacao research and development to improve cocoa production through plant-breeding in partnership with Pairwise

Article by Cosmetic Business

The Mibelle Group, LanzaTech, and the Fraunhofer IGB have successfully produced a sustainable fat from CO2 as a replacement for palm oil

An insatiable thirst for cheap, ready-to-build furniture has been linked to illegal logging of protected areas and assassinations of forest defenders.

Article by Global Trade Review

Africa’s food future rests on the shoulders of smallholder farmers. But expecting them to transform the continent’s food system alone is neither fair nor realistic. With the right mix of investment, infrastructure and policy support, inclusive models like nucleus farms and data-driven risk tools are already proving what is possible.