There is a strong investment case for including climate-smart agriculture and food security among a broader portfolio of net zero investments. Investments in climate-smart agriculture can reduce greenhouse gases and enhance the resiliency and adaptive capacity of food production. Climate-smart agriculture practices include rotating crops, planting cover crops, reducing tillage, and integrating crop and livestock systems in order to improve soil health, sequester carbon, and produce co-benefits such as reduced erosion, increased water infiltration and economic and environmental resiliency.

More farmers are transitioning to climate-smart practices and the U.S. is recognizing the critical role agriculture plays in driving climate solutions and strengthening the U.S. and global food systems. As a result, there will be significant opportunities to invest and help drive a climate-smart transition.

The farmers who produce our food care about sustainability; it is their livelihood. In fact, farmers are the eco workforce who can have an impact on getting us closer to solutions for a net zero economy every day. They just need greater investment to employ the technologies that can catapult the transition.

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For those who really care about investing sustainably, no other sector can do as much to advance people and planet.

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