A3. 1/ Food systems, and particularly agriculture, are primary contributors to #climatechange. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-environ-020411-130608 … #foodsustainability
Q3. How does food production affect our Planet? #foodsustainability
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A3. 2/ But food systems also threaten other planetary boundaries, e.g. through ag runoff and loss of crop diversity.
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A3. Global trends to industrialized & intensified monocropping systems means diversity is lost on farm and on our plates
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A3a. One of the biggest problems is transportation. Our food travels long distances before it reaches our plates.
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•A3 the use of pesticides,artificial fertilizers & other chemicals pollutes the environment & threatens wildlife species
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@HilalElver reported, "Pesticides are not necessary to feed the world"#foodsustainability https://hilalelver.org/2017/03/08/pesticides-are-not-necessary-to-feed-the-world/ …
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A3. These sustainably intensified systems often disempower & make smallholders vulnerable particularly in the face of CC
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A3: It requires resources: energy (emissions) land-use (deforestation) & water (drought) http://bit.ly/2mPT1wo
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Soil, water and air pollution due to toxic agricultural chemicals. Organic food production reduces the impact dramatically!
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A3b. This transport releases tonnes and tonnes of CO2, when we should be focusing on sustainable, local food production
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