Greenpeace’s Food and Farming Vision explains why Ecological Farming is the solution for a sustainable future and why we need to act now to hasten much-needed systemic change.
Marking the United Nations' 75th Anniversary, Harry Bignell, Brooke's Global External Affairs Officer, argues that we
A recent study conducted at the University of Oxford concluded that adopting a vegetarian diet would save 5-8 million lives by 2050, amounting to a 6-10% drop in global mortality. The study joins a growing body of quality research suggesting that a global reduction in meat consumption can help prevent major problems in the near future. However, despite its important implications on the far-reaching impact of our eating habits, the study misses a crucial and obvious point. By only including human lives in its final figure, it ignores the trillions of animals whose lives would also be spared by a global shift towards meat-free diets within the same time-frame. paraeid="{7c625c11-015d-4e56-bc35-86561a4f895e}{43}" paraid="833191548" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US">Each year, around 70 billion land animals [1] are killed for food. That’s more than nine times the world’s human population, which is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. At the same time, economic empowerment in the developing world enables once-poor households to afford a more meat-based diet, leading to a steady rise in meat consumption.
A climate-smart version of the icipe push-pull technology is enabling farmers living in some of the East African regions most