How time flies! Our journey have to come to an end.
Through previous posts, I hope everyone now has a reasonable understanding of agriculture's role in climate change and has come to an appreciation of the importance of immediate actions into providing solutions of the many challenges we are facing.
It is undeniable that industrial agriculture have been outstanding successful in providing people with cheap and abundant food but it has environmental consequences, in the form of eroded soils, depleted fresh water resource, polluted oceans and most importantly the release of large quantities of greenhouse gases that pile onto the global threats of biodiversity loss, desertification and climate change. Our challenge is not only to find solutions to minimise these negative effects but to also mitigate climate change at the same time successfully feeding the increasingly growing world population.
Ultimately, achieving a timely and substantial levels of mitigation will require the whole sector working jointly, including farmers, researchers, industry, education and policymakers. Only when the best practice is communicated on the ground can an effective mitigation occur. This not just involves a closer linkage between research to developing relevant policies, an effective translation on the ground via knowledge transfer is also essential.
Just as Jose Graziano de Silva, the director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, said "The knowledge is available. How to bring this knowledge to the ground at a farmer's level is what need to do in the next years."
I hope I can contribute to researching better solution and become one of the links in knowledge transferring.
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Thank you for reading. Hope you enjoyed exploring the topic and be as inspired as I did. :)
