Tag: Neem

Neem Set to Benefit From Global Cannabis Growth

Primal believes that a key factor for the future of the cannabis industry will be sustainable crop care. The toll of commercial agriculture on the world is already significant, and the addition of another major crop such as cannabis treated with traditional synthetic and chemical inputs could lead to damaging repercussions for both human health and the planet. As a cash crop, growers rely on synthetics and chemicals in order to guarantee the growth of their plants. Furthermore, synthetic pesticides on cannabis can be transferred into cannabis smoke at a rate as high as 70%, allowing chemicals to directly enter the bloodstream without undergoing first-pass metabolism by the digestive systems.

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The Threat of Synthetic Chemical Exposure

“If we will not change the ways that we are living in the environment and the chemicals that we are exposed to, I am very worried about what will happen in the future… Eventually, we may have a problem with reproduction in general and it may be the extinction of the human species.”

Hagai Levin, Public Health Researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Sperm counts among men around the world have more than halved in the last 40 years, according to the results of nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific investigations into male fertility across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.…

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Harnessing Nature to Fuel Innovation

Despite the incredible advances in technology mankind has achieved over the last two centuries, ranging from the industrial revolution to the development of modern antibiotics, we have yet to reach our full potential. The machines we build still suffer from mechanical failures and our medicines are becoming less and less effective. In fairness, we have only had a short period of time to optimize our innovations. Nature has had billions of years to perfect some of the most amazing compounds in existence.

Nature has offered us a plethora of powerful resources to treat our diseases and relieve our suffering for thousands of years.…

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A Pivotal Year for Sustainable Food

For the human race to survive and thrive, we must feed ourselves in a safe and sustainable manner. This will be a considerable challenge, especially with the global population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050. Such rising demand will require a 70% increase in food productivity and a doubling in protein production worldwide, at a time when arable land degradation is increasing and crop yields are starting to show a decline. Despite the increasingly bleak scenario we face, there is a solution: the alignment of the human race and the planet’s ecosystem by supporting a revolutionary transformation in global agriculture, with neem at the forefront of this imperative change.…

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Our Commitment to the UN Global Compact

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As we draw the calendar year to a close, we are delighted to share with you how we, as approved and active participants of the United Nations Global Compact alliance, have maintained our commitment to the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative and applied their principles in very tangible ways across our day to day business.

As part of our commitment, we submit an annual report on what we are doing that illustrates our activity in applying these principles, which we detail below:

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Letter of Continued Support from CEO, Anthony J.…

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All Eyes on Agriculture

“Emerging nations have great hunger and meeting this growing demand for food will require great investments to strengthen agriculture and make it more productive.”

Marc Garrigasait, President and Director of the Panda Agriculture and Water Fund, 2016

The growing demand for food across emerging economies is a point of great interest for the world’s largest institutional investors. Sovereign wealth funds are expected to drive a four-fold increase in agriculture investments over the next decade to a total of $240 billion.

A study of the world’s most lucrative Sovereign Wealth Funds by the Esade Business School, KPMG and Icex-Invest found that the current trends in the agricultural investment space point towards an impressive rise in asset allocation from $60 billion to $240 billion in the last decade. …

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Accomplishing Full Sustainability in Waste Management

“Through a move towards stable or declining populations, denser and better-managed cities consuming fewer resources, and greater equity and use of technology, we can bring peak waste forward and down. The environmental, economic and social benefits would be enormous.”

Dan Hoornweg, Perinaz Bhada-Tata and Chris Kennedy, Authors of “Waste Production Must Peak This Century”

The habits of consumers and the rising demand for new products is becoming a serious problem due to the ever-increasing amount of waste that is polluting and degrading the planet’s ecosystems.

A new report from the World Bank’s Urban Development department forecasts a 70% global increase in urban solid waste by 2025, rising from more than 3.5 million tons per day in 2010 to more than 6 million tons per day by 2025.…

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Why Zika’s Emergency Status Downgrade is Bad

In a declaration of defeat, the World Health Organization (WHO) no longer considers Zika a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Although this may seem like good news, this decision in fact reflects the severity of Zika’s rapid transition from obscurity to a permanent threat to human health. The disease now joins the ranks of HIV, XDR-TB, Ebola, Marbug, Dengue and an exhaustive list of other killers that have spread around the world in record time.

The escalation in severity has been remarkable. First documented nearly seventy years ago, Zika was originally considered harmless. 80% of those originally infected demonstrated no physical symptoms.…

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The Vastness of 21st Century Agriculture is Falling Short

Our global food industry sustains more people, with increased efficiency and a lower cost than any other period in human history. The problem is that big food continues to have an astounding influence on global health and the environment.

Through agricultural innovation and industrialization, the majority of the global food supply has now found itself under control of a select few major corporations around the world. The increase in efficiency is nothing short of impressive. The fact that California-based Earthbound Farm can harvest 10,000 pounds of lettuce per hour using a crew of only 12 people is simply astounding, especially considering that not so long ago this same production capacity would have taken a 40-person team the entire day.…

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Charting the Rise of Biopesticides in Modern Agriculture

Agriculture has reached a crossroads. In order to survive and thrive in this new millennium we need to revolutionize our production methods to ensure a secure, accessible and long-lasting food supply for everyone.

Feeding the world in a safe and sustainable manner is a considerable challenge, especially with a rising global population, significant arable land degradation and crop yields starting to show a decline. The primary obstacles to sustainable food security today are the combination of these factors combined with an economic model and thought system, nurtured throughout the industrial revolution, that views social progress as the ability to produce at maximum capacity and at any financial or environmental cost.…

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