What is the steep cost of relying on fossil fuels and how can we phase them out in farming?

In the second part of the World Food Day series, Mairead Redmond explores why the agricultural industry needs to break from the toxic trifecta of fossil fuel-based products and move towards nature-friendly methods of farming.

Photo by Preston Irina Oleinik/ World Bank. via Flickr used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license

Breaking from the toxic trifecta

What does it take to break free from fossil-fuel-dependent farming?

What is the steep cost of relying on fossil fuels and how can we phase them out in farming?

In the second part of the World Food Day series, Mairead Redmond explores why the agricultural industry needs to break from the toxic trifecta of fossil fuel-based products and move towards nature-friendly methods of farming.

Photo by Preston Irina Oleinik/ World Bank. via Flickr used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license

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