The foods that can turn back the climate clock
To sustain an ever growing global population, we need to produce more food. But farming already contributes a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions – perhaps as much as 18%. It also uses up other valuable resources such as water.
But could food production not only reduce its climate impact, but reverse the effects of climate change? It could even help to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and store it for the long term? In this episode of Follow the Food, botanist James Wong goes on the hunt for carbon-negative foods.
