PHOTO: Jessica Murray and her family embrace several climate change initiatives to reduce the impact from their farming practices at Louth.
“Farmers are on the front lines of climate change in Australia.”
So says independent, non-profit group Farmers for Climate Action who represent 7,000 farmers across Australia, and are committed to climate action for agriculture to battle what they see as the fragility of food security.
“The Garnaut (Climate Change) Review into climate impacts on Australia found that there would be a 92-97 per cent decline in irrigated agriculture capacity along the Murray-Darling Basin by the end of century without significant global action on climate change. The Murray-Darling system provides 40 per cent of Australia’s food. Climate change threatens Australia’s capacity to feed ourselves and the nations which we export food to.” the group states on its website.
And its mission is being embraced by many farmers including progressive thinking producers from the Western Plains who agreed to feature as a case study for climate action…