Reaping What We Sow: Fighting Climate Change with Food
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English - December 10, 2019 23:35 - 17 minutes - 16 MB - ★★★★ - 48 ratingsBusiness News Business News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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While efforts to mitigate climate change have focused primarily on burning fewer fossil fuels, recent research by the UN’s Panel on Climate Change shows that what we eat and how we produce it can have an even greater impact on the global environment and public health. The report says reforms in crop and livestock activities could potentially mitigate up to a third of all greenhouse-gas emissions. IMF economist, Nicoletta Batini studies the environmental impact of the agri-food sector. Her latest article titled Reaping What We Sow is published in the December 2019 issue of Finance and Development Magazine.
Photo: Consuming fewer animal products can help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. (Istock by Getty Images/ FrankvandenBergh)