THE HIDDEN POLLUTERS
Next to clean enough air, food is one of humans’ most basic needs. But the way it’s produced could be making it harder for us to breathe.
Towns and cities are often the assumed battlegrounds in the fight against air pollution, but there is another, perhaps more contentious, location: agriculture.
Research has found that cutting farming emissions by half could save more than 200,000 lives across 59 countries of the world.1
According to the Food and Agricultural Organization, greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture, forestry and fisheries have more than doubled over the past 50 years. Without greater
