Christopher Nicholson: Regenerative agriculture could be the silver bullet to climate change woes By Christopher Nicholson
Carbon sequestration is one of the many benefits of regenerative agriculture.
Farming’s carbon footprint is in the news again with the publication this week of the Farming for 1.5 Degrees panel’s final report.
It sets out a route for Scotland’s farmers to make a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, demonstrating that farming can offer a solution to climate change providing we farm appropriately.
The panel’s findings and recommendations have much in common with former Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing’s farmer-led sector reports published earlier this year, and our policymakers should waste no time in using these reports to fill the post-2024 rural policy void.
Future of smelter cast into doubt as fraud probe launched
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Rannoch timber rail project on track
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Calls for investigation into SNP minister’s meal with Greensill 11/04/2021, 11:44 am
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has ‘serious explaining to do’ about an allegedly unrecorded meeting with businessmen, Scottish Labour has said (Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/PA)
An SNP minister’s unrecorded dinner with banker Lex Greensill and steel billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has sparked calls for an investigation into whether he broke the ministerial code.
Fergus Ewing, Rural Economy Secretary in the Scottish Government, dined with the pair and two of their senior colleagues at one of Glasgow’s top restaurants in 2017.
But a Freedom of Information request (FOI) by the Sunday Mail has revealed that the minister had no officials with him, no notes were taken, and the Government claims to have no emails, texts or phone records about the meeting.
Scottish Government announces £715,000 hardship fund for pig farmers
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