How farmers can cut emissions | FT Climate Capital

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Agriculture and food account for about a quarter of all climate change-inducing greenhouse gas emissions. And with production methods becoming increasingly intensive, farmers are under scrutiny like never before. Now farming faces a big question: can it become more environmentally sustainable while continuing to feed a growing global population?
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@---nt5mb

This article ignored am important part of the discussion and that is the advent of precision fermentation and the impact that will have on both dairy and meat farms in the future. Also I think there needs to be an important distinction made between the farmers lobby and the food lobby, i.e. those producing food to those who process it and sell it to us in supermarkets. The food lobby often likes to use the image of the farmer for their own gains and the media has allowed them to do so. If precision fermentation is as successful as some are now predicting, the gap between the interests of these two groups will deepen even further and which I fear will have devastating impacts for farmers everywhere. Governments need to be aware of this and help their agricultural sectors adapt.

@ecofriend93

Animal husbandry: finding news ways of doing the same old things. Sounds like clean coal all over again.

@user-ce5ly3nm5r

כל עוד יש אוכלוסית העולם גדלה,העולם יתחמם(לא משנה כמה חקלאים באירלנד יפשטו רגל).אז העולם חם יותר,צריך לבנות סכרים.כנגד הצפות.צריך להתמודד עם מחסור במים,ואולי לשנות גידולים.

@winstong7867

Everybody except Exxon BP Shell gotta cut their emissions right, a bunch of jokers

@whitebird7870

How much emissions can be cut by not wearing new clothes, not using cars, not using bikes, not using phones, not drinking beer, wine? Tell me one thing that doesn’t make emissions

@marianasalles242

Stop with this cruel business. Time to evolve🌍

@mayap6055

"quicker finishing time" = shorter lives, murdered earlier.

@mayap6055

Its so sad to see all these poor cows who will be killed.

@mattharvey515

Are there any battery-powered tractors or combine harvesters? I suspect that's not possible, unless everything is grown in a greenhouse (heralding the end of bio-food as we know it). One solution is to close the farms - they are already trying that in parts of Europe. The result will be a huge increase in food prices (as we already see), followed by starvation, and then a war or two. That will be great for humanity and the environment.

@mayap6055

The laws have change, thats the only way to change the landscape. Regenerative vegan Agriculture is the way forward!