Focus on food would help solve climate change, says study
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 09:40
in Earth & Climate
A paper released today by the journal Nature Food presents a new global food system approach to climate-change research that brings together agricultural production, supply chains and consumption. When these activities are considered together, they represent 21 to 37 percent of total human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, the paper notes. It says that the new approach would enable a fuller assessment of the vulnerability of the global food system to increasing droughts, intensifying heatwaves, heavier downpours and coastal flooding. Food system responses thus could play a major role in both adapting to and mitigating climate change, the authors assert.