All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 September Growing more food with a reduced carbon footprint Growing more food with a reduced carbon footprint 14/09/2021 | 2 MINS Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Institute of Agriculture has collaborated with international researchers to identify how smallholder farms can grow more food with a reduced carbon footprint. The study was published today in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The world has been struggling to find sustainable ways to produce more food for an ever-increasing human population with fewer negative environmental impacts. The challenge is magnified in countries or regions where the availability of farmable land for agriculture is limited. About 83 per cent of the global agricultural population (more than 2.3 billion people) rely on smallholder family farms for their livelihood. An added challenge for agriculture is the uncertainty of the consequences of climate change and unpredictable abiotic stresses, which put pressure on agriculture to
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 September Growing more food with a reduced carbon footprint Growing more food with a reduced carbon footprint 14/09/2021 | 2 MINS Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Institute of Agriculture has collaborated with international researchers to identify how smallholder farms can grow more food with a reduced carbon footprint.
The study was published today in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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The world has been struggling to find sustainable ways to produce more food for an ever-increasing human population with fewer negative environmental impacts.
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The challenge is magnified in countries or regions where the availability of farmable land for agriculture is limited.
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About 83 per cent of the global agricultural population (more than 2.3 billion people) rely on smallholder family farms for their livelihood.
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An added challenge for agriculture is the uncertainty of the consequences of climate change and unpredictable abiotic stresses, which put pressure on agriculture to
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