Analysis: Could changing the way we farm rice be a climate solution?
Farmers are focusing on ways to reduce methane emissions and save water to further reduce the staple crop’s climate footprint.
Category Archives: Agriculture
Analysis: Are dairy digesters the renewable energy answer or a ‘false solution’ to climate change
Capturing the massive quantities of methane dairy farms emit could reduce overall carbon pollution. But critics say the effort is propping up Big Dairy.
Turkey sees biomass playing a key role in its pursuit for green growth
Turkey sees biomass technology as a key ingredient in reducing emissions.
Analysis: Chinese consumers ignore calls to eat less beef
Beef Imports rise in China as domestic farmers struggle to meet demand.
India: Farmers push back desertification in Odisha
Community interventions to dig wells and ponds has enabled farmers to fight drought and halt the trend of desertification in Odisha’s Balangir district.
Climate pioneers: how small farmers could be leading the way towards sustainable agriculture
Why small farming methods is a key ingredient in tackling climate change.
Carbon farming: how agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change
Agriculture can play a key role in fighting climate change.
Opinion: Cows exude lots of methane, but taxing beef won’t cut emissions
Cows produce a lot of methane. But Michael von Massow & John Cranfield argues there’s not much evidence a tax on beef would be effective in fighting greenhouse gas emissions.
Opinion: It is time to kick the beef habit
The time has come to kick out the most climate damaging meat product from our diets.
Climate-resilient organic cotton stages a comeback
To cope with changing rainfall patterns and crop failures, some farmers in northern Karnataka have restarted growing organic cotton varieties that require much lower inputs and water to cultivate.
