The Australian vegetable industry has recognised that issues around climate variability and climate change may affect growers and the broader industry. The industry is in a very strong position to deal effectively with climate change and is a low emitter of greenhouse gases, and has one of the lowest carbon and water footprints of any food producer. Vegetable growers [...]
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This report discusses the future opportunities for the Australian vegetable industry to reduce its carbon footprint. It has been written as part of a series of six discussion papers for a workshop that will set future directions for R, D & E on greenhouse gas emissions from the vegetable industry. Currently there are efforts to [...]
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The question of ‘Who will use the vegetable carbon tool?’ will only be properly answered after a better understanding of all the discussion papers from this series is also available. This is because there are many “levels” at which a carbon footprint can be measured. Although the reasons for reporting, accounting or reducing GHG emissions [...]
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