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"Producing and distributing food is responsible for roughly a third of global
greenhouse gas emissions. But food systems are highly vulnerable to the
droughts, floods, fires and heatwaves made more intense by climate change.
Agriculture is both culprit and victim.
As negotiators try to thrash out progress on climate in Brazil during the COP30
talks, agriculture will be a defining battleground. Hundreds of lobbyists for
big agribusiness are present, while outside the conference halls, people’s
movements push for low-impact farming.
In energy and transport, power sources and vehicles can be shifted to clean
options to cut emissions. But it’s harder to cut emissions from farming.
Agricultural emissions come largely from animals, crops and food processing –
methane from cattle, sheep and goats, nitrous oxide created by microbes in
fertilised soils and carbon losses from degraded land, where soil disturbance
and erosion accelerate release of carbon dioxide.
Many countries have included agriculture as a way to tackle climate change in
their national commitments. The question is how. One solution is to focus on
making farming regenerative rather than extractive.
Our research has laid out an approach centred on net zero, nature positive and
nutritionally balanced farming (3N for short). The goal: moving away from a
narrow focus on cutting emissions to rebuild soil carbon, restore biodiversity
and improve human nutrition simultaneously. Many people are already farming
like this around the world, but rarely in a joined up way or at scale. Here’s
what it looks like."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
