The Crop Protection Association has welcomed a new report¹ from WWF-UK and the Food Climate Research Network as an important step forward in questioning the widely held belief that organic production alone holds the key to combating climate change in the agriculture and food production sector.

The report How Low Can We Go? examines the food chain’s contribution to current greenhouse gas emissions and identifies the scope for reduction over the next 40 years.

Importantly, the report suggests that a combination of production and consumption measures will be required, stressing that ‘there is little scope for emission reductions through the exclusion of production technologies – for example through the widespread adoption of organic farming.’