{"id":18748,"date":"2016-03-11T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18748"},"modified":"2016-03-11T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:50:12","slug":"the-farm-that-grows-climate-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18748","title":{"rendered":"The Farm That Grows Climate Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postHeader span-full\">\n<div class=\"postTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/ensia.com\/features\/the-farm-that-grows-climate-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\">THE FARM THAT GROWS CLIMATE SOLUTIONS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postIntroText\">Here\u2019s how agriculture can make sequestered carbon one of its most valuable products.<\/div>\n<div class=\"postIntroMedia postIntroImage span-full clearfix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"introImage\" class=\"introMedia\" src=\"http:\/\/ensia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/voices_carbon_farming_main-760x378.jpg\" alt=\"Carbon farming with mixed crops of avocados, macadamias, bananas and coffee\" width=\"760\" height=\"378\" \/><span class=\"postDate\">March 9, 2016 \u2014\u00a0<\/span><i>Editor\u2019s note: The following is adapted from\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseagreen.com\/permaculture-subject\/the-carbon-farming-solution\" target=\"_blank\">The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security<\/a>\u00a0<i>by Eric Toensmeier (2016). The book introduces the concept of carbon farming, explains how it can help mitigate climate change, and explores strategies for adoption around the world. Published with permission from Chelsea Green Publishing.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postBody span-full\">\n<div class=\"postContentOuter left\">\n<div class=\"postContent editable left\">\n<p align=\"left\">High in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico, a small cooperative is \u201cfarming carbon\u201d \u2014 practicing agriculture in a way that fights climate change while simultaneously meeting human needs. Although these practices are used by millions of people around the world in some way, people in Western nations are largely unfamiliar with them, and there is little coordinated support to encourage farmers to adopt them. But if supported, implemented and developed on a global scale in conjunction with a massive reduction in fossil fuel emissions, these \u201ccarbon farming\u201d practices \u2014 a suite of crops and practices that sequester carbon while simultaneously meeting human needs \u2014 could play a critical role in preventing catastrophic climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere and safely storing it in soils and perennial vegetation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The cloud forest region of Veracruz, Mexico, is a humid tropical highland ecosystem that combines a mostly temperate canopy of trees such as oaks and hickories encrusted with epiphytic ferns, orchids and bromeliads with an understory of mostly tropical vegetation such as cannas, wild taros, passion fruits and tree ferns. But the cloud forest is disappearing. Between 70 and 90 percent of it has been deforested, and what remains is highly fragmented, with only tiny pockets of old growth. Much of the former forest is degraded pasture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FARM THAT GROWS CLIMATE SOLUTIONS Here\u2019s how agriculture can make sequestered carbon one of its most valuable products. March 9, 2016 \u2014\u00a0Editor\u2019s note: The following is adapted from\u00a0The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security\u00a0by Eric Toensmeier (2016). The book introduces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[113,141,1004,6513,11797,299,319,1912],"class_list":["post-18748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-ensia","tag-eric-toensmeier","tag-farming","tag-food","tag-food-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18749,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions\/18749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}