Soil carbon and organic farming
This report reveals that if all UK farmland was converted to organic farming, at least 3.2 million tonnes of carbon would be taken up by the soil each year - the equivalent of taking nearly 1 million cars off the road. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 89% of agriculture
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