Cutting fossil fuel emissions alone won't be enough to stop global warming, according to UN scientists
And the food sector is responsible for 75% of all deforestation worldwide as trees are felled to make way for farms and cattle ranches.
"A shift to sustainable land management must be accompanied by the necessary rapid and deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions if we are to meetThe report is critical of increasing intensification of agriculture. Farmers now use twice as much water and nine times as much artificial fertiliser as they did in the 1960s.
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