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Australia’s National Farmers’ Federation has pledged to cut the agriculture sector’s greenhouse gas emissions to zero within 20 years, with Chief Executive Tony Mahar citing the risk of adopting ‘a passive approach’ to combating climate change.
The supply-chain disruption precipitated by the pandemic shutdown may provide the motivation needed to reinvigorate urban agriculture, contends protected cropping expert Oula Ghannoum.
An Atherton Tablelands farmer who invested in a 2,000sqm greenhouse to grow capsicums year-round talks about the costs, challenges and rewards of going undercover in the tropics.
Experts are suggesting UK farmers should be reimbursed for ‘rewilding’ parts of their properties, returning farmland to its natural state to encourage wildlife, restore ecological balance and sequester carbon.