Towards reduced emissions on australian potato farms

As the global community grapples with the impacts of climate change, the horticultural sector faces mounting pressure to transition towards more sustainable practices, including reduced greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture production. In Australia, there is plenty of scope for potato farms to adopt various strategies to begin their journey to reduced emissions from production.

Terminology and legislation surrounding climate change, sustainability, and environmental performance is a bit of a tangle, but slowly there are some settled approaches and systems in place to regulate and guide growers who are interested in reducing the emissions intensity of their production.

Read more about how to get started, offsetting versus insetting, carbon farming and quantifying environmental performance in Issue 13 of PotatoLink magazine.