How Countries are Preparing for Climate Change - 4b Agriculture - How Governments are Responding and Sharing Knowledge
Policies, Incentives, and Engagement Farming contributes to climate change but is also among the first sectors to feel its impact. As I write, farmers are lamenting huge stock losses in Far North Queensland due to “unprecedented" flooding. In the South it is due to bushfires. Rather than being enlisted to fight against Net Zero, progressive farmers are reducing their own impacts by measures such electrifying machinery, transport, lighting, and refrigeration, planting intermediate crops and using no-till farming to retain soil moisture and carbon. In this section we will look at some of the major global agriculture and climate policy initiatives and how these are transmitted to farmers and shared. For the purposes of this post, Mitigation means broad measures to reduce the impact of Climate Change, while Adaptation refers to measures adopted to overcome its most serious consequences especially with respect to food security. In many cases the measures adopted d...