Most people don’t recognise agriculture’s dramatic impact on Earth’s climate and biodiversity. Roughly 30% of carbon emissions stem from clearing land, tilling, planting, fertilising, growing, harvesting, processing, transporting and discarding of food.
Agricultural land use, or misuse, is a major threat to biodiversity, as well as a driver of climate breakdown, sharing much of the blame with fossil fuel combustion. Regenerative farming methods, along with restoration of cropland soils, forests, grasslands and wetlands, can dramatically help balance local water cycles and even climate ...
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