Tackling sustainability in smallholder coffee farming in the face of climate change has largely been a ‘bottom-up’ effort. Achieving sustainability for the world’s smallholder farmers requires rapid development of a global ‘top-down’ approach before time runs out. Smallholder farmers are vital for world food production and food security. Although estimates vary, recent research estimates that… (continued)
As the ACCORD programme draws to a close it is inevitably a time to reflect on what we have learned about such an important industry as coffee. It is a commodity we generally take for granted – the daily cup of tasty excellence and reinvigoration that we so rely on to get through our busy… (continued)
GLOBAL COPPER SMELTING ACTIVITY DECLINES DURING FEBRUARY Regional rebound, particularly North America, offset by China New Year outages 03 March 2021 – SAVANT, a unique geo-spatial analytics product launched in October 2019 by Earth-i and Marex Spectron, shows global copper smelting activity continued to contract in February after what had been a large decline in… (continued)
GLOBAL COPPER SMELTING ACTIVITY DECLINES IN JANUARY – ALL REGIONS SHOW SIGNIFICANT FALLS 16 February 2021 – SAVANT, a unique geo-spatial analytics product launched in October 2019 by Earth-i and Marex Spectron, showed global copper smelting activity to be sharply lower in January 2021 after the large increases (ex-North America) in the previous two months…. (continued)
Earth-i releases new satellite video AI on VANTAGE platform 15th February 2021 – Earth-i is delighted to announce the latest release of AI on the VANTAGE platform, an ESA funded Earth Observation Video Analytics and Exploitation Platform. In this release the Earth-i Technology Team has added automated 3D capabilities to support Earthworks Monitoring use cases…. (continued)
GLOBAL COPPER SMELTING ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO ACCELERATE DURING DECEMBER DESPITE U.S. WEAKNESS 21 January 2021 – SAVANT, a unique geo-spatial analytics product launched in October 2019 by Earth-i and Marex Spectron, showed December’s global copper smelting activity continued the advances that were seen in November. There were also further regional divergences with Asia and Europe… (continued)