Sustainable intensification: the pathway to low carbon farming?

• Published in: Regional environmental change Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 2253 - 2255
• Main Authors: Rees, Robert Martin, Barnes, Andrew P., Moran, Dominic
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01-12-2016; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural industry; Agriculture; Air pollution; Carbon farming; Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Earth and Environmental Science; Editorial; Emissions; Environment; Farm buildings; Food security; Food supply; Geography; Global temperature changes; Greenhouse gases; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Land use; Nature Conservation; Oceanography; Regional/Spatial Science; Sustainable agriculture
• ISSN: 1436-3798; 1436-378X
• DOI: 10.1007/s10113-016-1065-5

The food security agenda is now becoming clearly aligned with a need to tackle human-induced climate change. The ambitious agreements to mitigate the global emissions of greenhouse gases agreed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21) summit at the end of 2015 in Paris have major implications for agriculture and land use. Agriculture is responsible for the production of 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC 2013) and needs to be radically reformed to address the challenge of mitigation. At the same time, there is a need to increase global food supplies in order to meet the demands of a growing population.