• 415 Aerial view of flooding on Henry Wards farm in Lincolnshire December 2019. Credit Dominic Swire NFU

    Adapting agriculture for todays climate challenges

    {Earth and Leaf Editorial – Adapting agriculture for todays climate challenges} {extract below}   Adapting agriculture for todays climate challenges NFU climate change advisor Dr Ceris Jones and Met Office climate scientist Dr Pete Falloon explain why agricultural adaptation is so important across the whole industry. There has been wide consideration of the important role agriculture has in mitigating climate change. By reducing emissions, maintaining and sequestering additional carbon and moving towards net zero, farmers will become ever more important in the quest to prevent dangerous levels of climate change. But what about the impacts of climate change we’re already committed to, both now and in the future? Adapting agriculture…