In the Netherlands, experiments are underway to ensure future food supply and cut carbon emissions.
Wijnand Sukkel's work aims to ensure future food supply and cut carbon emissions in farmingI'm at the Wageningen University's Farm of the Future, where I had been expecting to see robots and perhaps, drones flying overhead.
The university started Farm of the Future four years ago after seeing biodiversity decline due to climate change. "We wondered if it was possible to design a high food production farm system with zero fossil fuel energy use, with no damage from pesticides and [that] was resilient to heavy rainfall or very long dry periods.
At the Farm of the Future there are perennial flower strips to ensure there's food and shelter for insects. "If you harvest everything at the same time or plant everything at the same time, it's an ecological death. They cannot survive." The Dutch government has also revealed radical action to tackle environmental damage, outlining ambitions to halve its nitrogen emissions by 2030. One way is through it pushing for livestock numbers to fall by a third, sparking nationwide protests from farmers.
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