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Tag Archives: climate change
Soils’ vital role in climate change, biodiversity and sustainable farming – a conversation with Prof Pete Smith
When I was young there was a BBC radio comedy programme with a character whose catchphrase was ‘the answer lies in the soil’*. When it comes to climate change, biodiversity and sustainable farming systems we now realise that yes, a … Continue reading
The multiple roles for agriculture, forestry and other land use change in mitigating climate change – findings from latest IPCC report, interview with Dr Jo House
The latest almost 3000 page full report on Mitigation of Climate Change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just landed. Here Dr Jo House, Reader in Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Bristol, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, food, forestry, IPCC, land use
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Cutting the harms #agriculture does, GHG emissions and increasing #resilience – some key priorities for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
The US-based, non-profit Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has aimed to foster sustainable rural communities and regions for over 30 years. Here, its Executive Director, Dr Sophia Murphy outlines their key priorities. These include cutting the harm industrial agriculture … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, climate change, dairy, food policy, GHG emissions, meat, Trade
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Protecting biodiversity for food systems in the face of climate change
Biodiversity, food systems and climate change are inextricably linked. The recent COP26 on climate change in Glasgow got worldwide coverage but it was sandwiched between the two-part COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming China – which has … Continue reading
Posted in China, Interviews
Tagged biodiversity, China, climate change, COP26, farmers, seeds
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Changes to UK food and farming to reach net zero less than those between 1940s-1980s says Prof Neil Ward
Prof Neil Ward* argues the changes needed for climate change mitigation in agriculture in the UK are less dramatic than those between the 1940-1980s but more challenging owing to the different neo-liberal ideology prevailing now. We discuss the changes instigated … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Interviews
Tagged agri-food system, climate change, Farming, food, net zero, UK
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Food system change and animal agriculture missing in Glasgow Climate Pact at COP 26
One of the most disappointing things about the outcome of the Glasgow Climate Summit – COP 26 – is that there is no mention of food, farming or agriculture in the final text of the main Glasgow Pact. Yet for … Continue reading
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Tagged animal agriculture, climate change, COP 26, food systems
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Stop eating to extinction and maintain food biodiversity says Dan Saladino
Dan Saladino’s written an engrossing account of some of the world’s rarest foods in ‘Eating to Extinction: The world’s Rarest Food and Why We Need to Save Them‘. In this conversation he discusses why, tells some of the stories and … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Interviews
Tagged Agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, culture, food
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Vulnerability and resilience of Pacific Island food systems in the face of climate change
I’m grateful to an old Fijian friend of mine for linking me up with Dr Mary Taylor. She was a lead editor for an exhaustive 573 page book on the ‘Vulnerability of Pacific Island agriculture and forestry to climate change’. … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Reports
Tagged Agriculture, climate change, diabetes, Farming, Fiji, food, forestry, Pacific Communities, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, vulnerability
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Safeguarding biodiversity for food and agriculture needed urgently
Global biodiversity is severely threatened, including that which we depend upon for food, Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural biodiversity, Agriculture, agrobiodiversity, agroecology, biodiversity, CBD, climate change, FAO, food
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Four key words for the UN #FoodSystems Summit – power, control, risks, benefits.
There’s a veritable avalanche of reports, webinars and meetings around food systems at the moment. From the locally focussed National Food Strategy for England and Proposals for Sustainable Food Systems in Ireland (download report here), to the UN Food and … Continue reading →