This small change to farming could reduce agriculture’s climate impact by 30% (WEF)

May 3, 2021

Sacha Mooney, Professor in Soil Physics and Director of the Hounsfield Facility, University of Nottingham

Hannah Victoria Cooper, Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Nottingham

Sofie Sjogersten, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, University of Nottingham

Agriculture accounts for 26% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

Tractor fuel, fertiliser and methane from cattle are some of the main contributing factors.

Tilling soil by breaking it up with ploughs also exposes carbon buried in the soil to oxygen in the air, allowing microbes to convert it to CO₂.

New research has explored the possibility of no-till farming, which found it produces up to 30% lower emissions.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/farming-soil-change-agriculture-climate-impact-research-environment/

Marco Emanuele

Marco Emanuele è appassionato di cultura della complessità, cultura della tecnologia e relazioni internazionali. Approfondisce il pensiero di Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. Marco ha insegnato Evoluzione della Democrazia e Totalitarismi, è l’editor di The Global Eye e scrive per The Science of Where Magazine. Marco Emanuele is passionate about complexity culture, technology culture and international relations. He delves into the thought of Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. He has taught Evolution of Democracy and Totalitarianisms. Marco is editor of The Global Eye and writes for The Science of Where Magazine.

This small change to farming could reduce agriculture’s climate impact by 30% (WEF)

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