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Scrapping global agricultural subsidies and tariffs reduces emissions improves food security: ABARES

Improving food security, promoting global growth and cutting emissions can be achieved through the removal of agricultural subsidies and tariffs, according to the latest ABARES Insights report.

Executive Director of ABARES Dr Jared Greenville said the global community needed to find a way for agriculture to reduce emissions while also feeding the world’s population.

Jared Greenville

“Agriculture accounts for about 12 per cent of global emissions,” Dr Greenville said.

“That’s almost six gigatonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, including methane, each year.

“Emissions from…

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