If you missed us live today, listen any time on our 24/7 player off of our main site and this blog. Come to this show, and all others, with an open heart. We are all part of the problem; we are all part of the solution. Including Monsanto. Some of their information is below, but spend some time on their site as well:
Delivering agricultural solutions, protecting our planet’s resources.
Food brings us together and nourishes our lives. But everything we eat requires resources to produce. Land, water, energy and people are critical to putting food on our table.
At Monsanto, we’re focused on working with others to deliver agricultural solutions that address our biggest challenges – things like climate change and resource conservation - while sustaining the environment. It’s our way of helping protect the earth that feeds us.
There is broad consensus in the scientific community that climate change is happening. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other respected third parties agree that the significant, long-lasting changes in temperature, precipitation, wind patterns and other measures of climate that are already occurring are related to an accumulation of high levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
These are also the conclusions that Monsanto came to when, almost a decade ago, as part of our work to help farmers, we created a climate change panel composed of 25 of our senior scientists to study climate change, assess its potential effects on crop systems and devise strategies for change.
Farmers have been, and will continue to be, a positive force in the fight against climate change. And while great progress has already been made to reduce agriculture’s carbon footprint, to sustainably feed 9.6 billion people by 2050, we must work collectively to do even more.
Monsanto has a strategy for addressing the components of climate change that are related to agriculture. These include:
- Collaborating with others to advance climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
- Improve our operations to reduce our own environmental footprint
- Help lead agriculture in the fight against climate change
Climate change is one of the biggest issues we face in agriculture, as well as one of the biggest issues facing humanity. That’s why we have pledged to do our part within our own business first, and to help support farmers and others as we all work to be a bigger part of the solution.
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