By Jennifer Shike, Farm Journal’s Pork, 4 November 2021, photo credit: huffingtonpost.com
McDonald’s USA is committing $5 million and partnering with AgMission, a global collaboration to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agriculture and to develop and implement climate-smart farming solutions over the next five years.
The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), and the World Farmers’ Organization (WFO) established AgMission to unlock agriculture’s potential to reduce GHG emissions, a release said.
Their goal? To make the agriculture sector net-negative for GHG emissions by bringing farmers, ranchers and scientists together to co-create science-based solutions that can be rapidly deployed, increasing on-farm resiliency while mitigating the impacts of climate change.
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The South African Pork Producers’ Organisation (SAPPO) coordinates industry interventions and collaboratively manages risks in the value chain to enable the sustainability and profitability of pork producers in South Africa.
