From Soil to Sea: Groundbreaking Solutions for Food, Climate, and Biodiversity
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A Swiss farmer’s restoration method produces a reported 20-fold acceleration from pioneer to climax forest species by pruning, mulching and introducing 100 edible species, creating topsoil, food and a carbon sink; seaweed farms are presented as scalable carbon tools capturing 1.2 gigatons CO2 annually with ~56 million tons sequestered to deep sinks while Coastal Biotech converts macroalgae into bio-stimulants and biochar; precision fermentation and a strain from Agrob Biomics (petric acid) aim to boost crop stress tolerance; pilots across Europe test soil filtering for Baltic runoff and a Mediterranean zero‑irrigation mix sourcing 93 native species while Zanzibar lists 28,000 seaweed farmers (90% women).
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