‘Sustainably transform food systems’ – Reuters: UN’s COP28 targets food & agriculture – ‘The way we

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‘Sustainably transform food systems’ – Reuters: UN’s COP28 targets food & agriculture – ‘The way we produce & eat food causes 30% of world’s greenhouse gas emissions’ – Funding from Bill Gates & Jeff Bezos Earth Fund
By Marc Morano
December 23, 2023
8:11 am

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity/analysis-cop28-put-food-system-transformation-menu-who-will-pick-up-bill-2023-12-21/

Reuters:

Some 160 nations signed a declaration to include food and agriculture in their climate plans by COP30 in Brazil in two years’ time, and a new initiative, the Alliance of Champions for Food Systems Transformation (ACF), saw five countries, Brazil, Norway, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Rwanda, go even further, committing to tackling 10 priority areas as they reorient policies, practices and investment to deliver better food systems outcomes.

As Patty Fong, of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, told a panel at COP28, its research shows food and energy systems are intertwined: at least 15% of fossil fuel emissions are consumed within food systems, from the production of agrichemical inputs such as fertiliser to food processing, transport and packaging.

“At COP28 we made an impressive breakthrough, placing food systems and agriculture at the heart of the agenda for the first time in the history of COP,” UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment Mariam Almheiri said.

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[roamer_1]

Not that I endorse this tripe, but by the same token, take a look at restorative farming. Amazing results. If I was younger, I would be trying that.

Restorative farming fights against monoculture farming and big ag too, but tends to look at natural ways and the ways great-grand-daddy used. And in the middle of it all, the noble cow. nothing is better for depleted fields than butt fertilizer and trampling, as they are finding out on depleted tobacco fields in the US South. You want sustainable, that's what it is going to look like.