As the Earth’s human population grows, greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s food system are on track to expand.
As the Earth’s human population grows, greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s food system are on track to expand.
A new study demonstrates that state-of-the-art agricultural technology and management can not only reduce that growth, but eliminate it altogether by generating net negative emissions – reducing more greenhouse gas than food systems add.
In fact, employing additional agricultural technology could result in more than 13 billion tons of net negative greenhouse gas emissions each year, as the world seeks to avoid dangerous climate extremes, according to research published Sept. 6 in PLOS Climate.
The work was led by Benjamin Z. Houlton, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Maya Almaraz, associate research scholar at Princeton University.
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