How are farmers adapting to climate change?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Up to 10% of areas for major crops and livestock could be rendered unsuitable by climate change by 2050, so what can farmers do to adapt to rising temperatures and extreme weather events?
Stefania Gozzer meets a farmer in Spain to see how severe droughts ruined his cereal harvest, and she pays a visit to his neighbour, who has managed to grow tomatoes without watering his fields.
Global warming poses huge challenges for agriculture around the world - and various ways of managing its effects are now being practised by farmers. Among them is planting trees next to crops. We hear how this technique changed the life of a Kenyan farmer.
(Picture: Farmer in rubber boots walking on dry soil ground. Credit: Getty Images)
Presented and produced by Stefania Gozzer
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| 0:22.1 | Hello, I'm Stefania Goetzer. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:28.9 | 2023 was the warmest year since records began in 1950, and farmers around the world are |
| 0:36.0 | some of the first to suffer the consequences. |
| 0:39.8 | Here, the local elderly have always said, if it germinates well, you have half a harvest |
| 0:44.8 | guaranteed, but now I've had a good germination and a terrifying harvest. |
| 0:49.7 | So with global temperatures continuing to rise, what can farms do to become more resilient |
| 0:55.3 | to climate change? |
| 0:56.9 | Soil moisture conservation, sustainable land management, you name it, we have a lot of solutions. |
| 1:04.8 | Will this be enough to keep the agricultural industry alive? |
| 1:08.3 | We find out on this edition of Business Daily. |
| 1:26.6 | I am in Aras de los Olmos, a small town in the region of Valencia. It's 1,000 meters above sea level and I have come here to visit |
| 1:28.9 | Antonio and he's showing me his farm which is located in a lovely place. It's surrounded by mountains |
| 1:35.2 | and I can see tall, wide windmills on them and right now I'm standing on what used to be his |
| 1:42.8 | cereal fields. This time of the year, August, this should be empty |
| 1:47.7 | and he should be getting ready for the new season. |
| 1:50.4 | However, he hasn't been able to harvest. |
| 1:52.9 | And I can see all the plants. |
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