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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Towards an organic future -Devinder Sharma

Towards an organic future -Devinder Sharma

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published Published on May 2, 2019   modified Modified on May 2, 2019
-The Tribune

The transition to sustainable, chemical-free farming is imperative

At a time when global temperatures are soaring, a study by a French think tank — Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) — has shown that agro-ecological farming has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe by 47% and thereby keep the global temperature rise below 2°C. The study comes at a time when the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation is already talking of green direct payments to organic farmers who opt for sustainable farming practices. At the Regional Symposium on Agro-ecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems for Europe and Central Asia-2016, one recommendation was to shift 30% of the European budget on agriculture to green direct payments. The study shows that agro-ecological farming will bring down pesticide consumption by 3.8 lakh tonne per year in European farming.

And yet, most climate mitigation studies point to more crop intensification, which will lead to freeing up larger proportion of cultivable lands and thereby claim to ensuring there is no drop in production. It is a push for a hyper-intensive farming system that leads to more toxic soils, more water mining sucking aquifers dry, and leading to more contamination of the food chain. This flawed assumption was essentially behind the launch of the New Vision for Agriculture at the World Economic Forum 2009, aiming at increasing production, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions per tonne, and reducing rural poverty by 20% each, every decade.

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The Tribune, 1 May, 2019, https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/towards-an-organic-future/766290.html


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