A Five-Step Plan to Feed the World

  When we think about threats to the environment, we tend to picture cars and smokestacks, not dinner. But the truth is, our need for food poses one of the biggest dangers to the planet.

  Agriculture is among the greatest contributors to global warming, emitting more greenhouse gases than all our cars, trucks, trains, and planes combined—largely from methane released by cattle and rice farms, nitrous oxide from fertilized fields, and carbon dioxide from the cutting of rain forests to grow crops or raise livestock.

 

 

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<The world’s craving for beef, pork, and poultry is driving the need to double crop production by 2050. At the Nutribras pig farm in Mato Grosso, Brazil, sows are confined to sectioned crates that allow a mother to suckle her piglets without acci­dentally crushing them. Hog farms can be big polluters—the average 200-­pound pig produces 13 pounds of manure a day—but Nutribras recycles waste as fertilizer and methane power.     「National Geographic」, May 2014>