Agriculture
Agriculture
Posted on Mar 1, 2022
Regenerative farming goes a step beyond organic farming and aims to be carbon neutral
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Agriculture contributes to a third of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Now, some farmers are going back to more traditional practices to try to keep carbon in the earth.
Erin Stone of KPCC has a profile of a family in Southern California who are growing corn and other crops and helping fight climate change.
Erin Stone of KPCC has a profile of a family in Southern California who are growing corn and other crops and helping fight climate change.
Regenerative farming goes a step beyond organic farming and aims to be carbon neutral
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Climate Change
Farming
Agriculture
Posted 2 y ago
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"The world’s farmlands do have the capacity to store billions of tons of carbon dioxide in the soil annually, according to a National Academies report last year. But there is still uncertainty concerning which farming techniques work, and to what degree, across different soil types, depths, topographies, crop varieties, climate conditions, and time periods.
It’s unclear whether the practices can be carried out over long periods and on a massive scale across the world’s farms without undercutting food production. And there are significant disagreements about what it will take to accurately measure and certify that farms are actually removing and storing increased amounts of carbon dioxide.
Carbon farming is seductive. It’s a natural-sounding solution that appeals to environmentalists, supports family farms, buys corporations out of the climate doghouse, and creates new markets for organizations seizing the role of referee …. But that means policymakers and standard setters have to be all the more careful to resist wishful thinking" ….
"The world’s farmlands do have the capacity to store billions of tons of carbon dioxide in the soil annually, according to a National Academies report last year. But there is still uncertainty concerning which farming techniques work, and to what degree, across different soil types, depths, topographies, crop varieties, climate conditions, and time periods.
It’s unclear whether the practices can be carried out over long periods and on a massive scale across the world’s farms without undercutting food production. And there are significant disagreements about what it will take to accurately measure and certify that farms are actually removing and storing increased amounts of carbon dioxide.
Carbon farming is seductive. It’s a natural-sounding solution that appeals to environmentalists, supports family farms, buys corporations out of the climate doghouse, and creates new markets for organizations seizing the role of referee …. But that means policymakers and standard setters have to be all the more careful to resist wishful thinking" ….
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