Transformation of the Land
Agriculture is an area that will come under scrunity in coming years and if Professor Ross Garnaut is correct, there are changes afoot set to radically change the face of farming in Australia.
Follow the release of his report, Professor Garnaut has told The Age that farmers on marginal land would be paid more to absorb carbon from the atmosphere and grow biofuels than they could get from growing sheep and wheat. This, says Professor Garnaut, would transform the mitigation costs for Australia.
Professor Garnaut has also warned that cattle and sheep production is “highly vulnerable” to climate change, suggesting that farmers in the drier parts of Australia could cut their greenhouse emissions and reduce their vulnerability to climate change by farming kangaroos instead of sheep and cattle.
