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Beef Production's Carbon Footprint Significant Around the World
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:18:07 CDT
The knowledge of a carbon footprint in the beef production industry is growing more and more everyday. And according to Bryan Weech, Director of Livestock Agriculture for the World Wildlife Fund, agriculture and beef production takes a significant carbon footprint across the world. Weech says this makes sense because everyone has to eat, however, we need to start using resources more efficiently.
Currently, agriculture uses 33% of the earth's land resource for crops, grazing or other food production methods. This makes up 58% of the inhabitable land in the world, says Weech. Weech also says with the increase in population, this will become more and more important.
Weech says the impacts from agriculture that are acceptable with 6.9 billion people won't be acceptable when there is a population of 9.1. billion people in 2050. Weech says we need to use resources more efficiently and need to intensify production through a variety of methods such as improvement in genetics, improvements in production, use of technology, increasing the yield of underperforming land, decreasing waste and decreasing over consumption.
Click on the LISTEN bar below to hear more from Bryan Weech on how agriculture can play a part in making these changes.
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