Impact of Food Production on Climate Change
How do you decide what to eat? 🤔 I am sure it will depends on 💡
✔️How tasty it is — Likeability 😋
✔️Is it available? — Supply & Demand, Seasonality of food 📈 ☀️ ❄️
✔️How much it costs? — Competitive pricing 💸
✔️Is it benefited for me — Health & wellness benefits 💪
Etc… Etc.….
But ever thought about — 🤔
🚫 What farming practices are used to grow this food?
🚫 How many resources in terms of water, fertilizers, land, manpower & time used to grow this food?
🚫 How much greenhouses gases released in atmosphere, from farm to our plates
❌ No, right! — How are we going to know about all this information when it’s not available?
But as a consumer it’s our responsibility towards our planet to know how food are is grown 🧑🌾
In order to encourage sustainable farming practices and efficient agriculture systems ♻️
Linking Green House Gases ( GHG’s ) with “how food is grown”
26% of global greenhouse gas emissions comes from how food is grown 🍽️ , with 58% of that coming from animal products 🍖
1Kg of Rice produces 4 kg of GHGs 🍚 Whereas 🌾1 Ton of Wheat produces almost 200Kg of GHGs due to extensive use of fertilizers 😵
Locally grown fruits and vegetables have the lowest carbon footprint. Food accounts for 30% of a household’s carbon footprint in the US
with 1kg of apple, banana and tomatoes producing only .4kg. , 7kg & 1.4Kg of GHGs respectively 🍓
Impact of CO2 concentration on food quality
In human history CO2 concentrations are higher than ever before, Increased from 280 ppm to 410 ppm since industrial revolution🏭
According to Samuel Myers, scientist at Harvard University👨🔬,Increased levels of CO2 could have reduced iron, zinc and protein up to 15 % within rice, wheat, maize and soy 😲
Pushing 200 Million people into risk of nutritional deficiency 😥
With India being the 2nd largest agriculture producer, 🇮🇳
the whole world is watching us 👀
How we can tackle climate change due to agriculture ⁉️
What do you think is the way out? 🤔💭
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