agriculture

“If you look at consumption, how much water is consumed, agriculture is the biggest consumer, and then cities, then the power sector.”

“Converting ecosystems that were composed of deeply rooted plants, like perennial grasses, with ecosystems that are managed by humans and composed of Our crop plants, which tend to be fairly short-lived and hence shallow-rooted, and therefore add less carbon to…”

“We had a peak in the total percentage of global land area used for agriculture right around the turn of the millennium, a little bit more than 37%. And let's be clear, it hasn't come down massively. It's come down maybe one percent of total global land area.”

“In the last few decades in the U.S., for example, nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture have been sort of flat. They've maybe gone up a little bit in the last few years, but they haven't gone up much, and that's because we are making some improvements in ef…”

“When you look at the overall methane emissions globally, agriculture is about 40%, and 70% of that is enteric methane.”

“Only five to, maybe five to seven percent of the world's agriculture that could be irrigated still needs to be irrigated which is a sort of wonky way of saying that it's going to be a lot harder to increase yields, you know, now that most farmland is irrigated…”