Agriculture is a source of climate change and according to the IPPC AR4 roughly 14% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions derive from the agriculture sector.
But agriculture is also a solution to climate change if adequate sustainable production measures are adopted that hold substantial mitigation potential, and that contribute to adapt agriculture and food production systems to climate variability such as recurrent droughts and floods events, raising temperatures, and increasing CO2 concentration. [more...]
