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FAO calls for funding agriculture to address climate change and food security
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says investing in agriculture in developing countries can address both climate change and food security.
Farmers fighting climate change
In a policy brief released ahead of the climate change conference in Copenhagen next week, FAO argues that farming practices that capture carbon and store it in the soil offer some of the most promising options for early and cost-effective action on climate change.
FAO says that agriculture not only suffers from the impacts of climate change, it is also responsible for 14 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Yet, the agency points out, agriculture has been largely excluded from the main climate financing mechanism under discussion in Denmark.
But, it adds that improved farming practices, including the restoration of degraded agricultural lands, integrated nutrient and soil management and agroforestry, hold the potential for reducing emissions, as well as increasing productivity.
The agency estimates that 70 per cent of potential carbon emission reductions could be accomplished in developing countries.
Bissera Kostova, United Nations.
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