Agricultural Innovation For A Warming World
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Public investment in food production would accelerate technologies and techniques that can reduce the agriculture system’s huge carbon footprint.
Agriculture — the world’s largest user of land and the greatest driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss — is responsible for at least a quarter of global emissions each year. But compared to electricity generation, transportation and other carbon-intensive industries, relatively little public spending goes to finding technological pathways to decarbonizing how we grow the food we eat. […]
