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Emissions from Crops POST note 486 issued by Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology issued "Emissions from Crops" a POST note (486) on 20th January 2015. Agriculture contributes 9% of the UK's greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions burden and 10-12&% globally. Although there is a long-term declining trend from UK agriculture, the sector may account for a larger share of overall emissions in the future as other sectors reduce ...
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Soaring prices and climate change expose fertilisers as environmentally unsustainable
As oil and gas prices rise so does the price of artificial chemical fertilisers - the lynch-pin of industrial agriculture’s claims to be ‘efficient’. In the UK, the price of nitrogen fertiliser has doubled over the past year to around £330 per tonne. With oil currently at over $130 a barrel and with OPEC warning it could reach $200 by the end of the year, it has been suggested that fertilisers ...
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