While organic agriculture has long been hailed as key to building a sustainable food system, a new study pinpoints the critical role that it could play in combating climate change. In a meta-analysis of over 4,000 studies, researchers found that best management organic farming practices could lead to a significant double-digit increase in the amount of carbon captured in soil.
Farming practices that retain carbon in the soil, or return it there, would limit both erosion and climate change.
If we are to reimagine the way we eat meat, and do so in a way that’s truly humane, we must apply ethical standards to all aspects of food production (people, land, the process…) and acknowledge what is required to meet them.
Los aguacates son uno de los alimentos más saludables que se pueden consumir. Pero un documental del año 2018 titulado: “El aguacate – El lado oscuro del superalimento” revela el lado desconocido de los aguacates que provoca la destrucción del medioambiente.
“Food systems” were responsible for 34% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, according to new research.
Regenerative agriculture has become the latest darling of everyone from food companies to universities to politicians. But how do products made with these practices differ from others, and can buying them help consumers fight the climate crisis? Here’s what you need to know about this farming philosophy.
La implementación a gran escala de un pequeño porcentaje (5-10%) de los sistemas orgánicos y regenerativos con las mejores prácticas dará como resultado que miles de millones de toneladas (Gt) de CO2 por año sean secuestradas en el suelo y en biomasa aérea continua y perenne. La identificación, financiación y despliegue de estas mejores prácticas en el 5-10% o más del total de tierras de cultivo, pastizales y bosques del mundo será más que suficiente para reducir y eliminar todo el CO2 y los gases de efecto invernadero actuales (43 Gt de CO2) que se están emitiendo actualmente, sin poner más CO2 a la atmósfera ni a los océanos.
Para lograr la regeneración del suelo, se debe optar por pastoreo intensivo de altas densidades, así como altos índices de cosecha y forrajeo de árboles y arbustos.
While banks and asset managers are promising to divest from fossil fuels, they are expanding investments in high-carbon foods and commodities tied to deforestation.
Scaling up a small percentage (5-10%) of best practice regenerative and organic systems will result in billions of tons (Gt) of CO2 per year being sequestered into the soil and into continuous, perennial above ground biomass. The identification, funding, and deployment of these best practices on 5-10% or more of the world’s total croplands, rangelands, and forestlands will be more than enough to draw down and cancel out all the current CO2 and greenhouse gases (43 Gt of CO2) that are currently being emitted, without putting any more CO2 into the atmosphere or the oceans.