Sustainable agriculture alleviating poverty

The impacts of climate change and global warming are becoming increasingly well known and harder felt: flooding and droughts causing food shortages, loss of homes, disease and more. While the above is well recognized, precious little is being accomplished by many governments to mitigate the impacts felt by the poorest in society. Well-designed agricultural schemes have been shown to aid in both providing climate resilience and in removing carbon and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. For example, tree planting schemes have been seen to improve precipitation and lower local temperatures while historically tree cover was believed to be waste of good land. This speaker believes that employing ecologically balanced mixed land use strategies (agroforestry, silvopasture, co-cropping etc.), a balance can be struck between the need to mitigate climate change and the needs of agriculture.

Author(s): Neil Faulkner

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