Agriculture 1

Regarding controlled environment agriculture (CEA), farmers are at the heart of the transformation of the world’s food systems, but they - especially small holder farmers and subsistence farmers - are often under-represented. Many of them live in poverty, suffer from malnutrition and are landless.
However, there is so much that we can learn from farmers all over the world. Agriculture has been practiced for 12,000 years, and farmers have built up generations and generations of knowledge on the care and use of land, climate change, and adaptive resilience. This should be extremely significant, as 2.5 billion people depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and the sector represents 35% of global jobs.
 

Agriculture, especially large-scale agriculture, accounts for more than 30% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, 80% of tropical deforestation and biodiversity loss, and 70% of freshwater withdrawals. We therefore have three urgent challenges that we need to solve to create better livelihoods for farmers and, efficient agriculture and carbon sequestration, all whilst promoting food and nutrition security. This is why climate-smart agriculture approaches are extremely  important.

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