New Farming Futures animation

Did you know that over half of the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are nitrous oxide? Or that feeding livestock a healthy diet reduces the amount of methane they burp out?

Farming Futures launches a new animation today aimed at communicating the essentials about climate change and farming. The animation explores where the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from farming originate from, and how farmers can tackle them. It also explores the opportunities that climate change brings for farmers, such as making money through renewable energy generation, and the potential to grow new crops because of our warming climate.

Click here to view the film.

The Farming Futures animation is available free for educational use. Please contact us to get a copy.

All enquiries to: Madeleine Lewis, Strategic Adviser, Farming Futures, Forum for the Future

Email: m.lewis@forumforthefuture.org or call 020 7324 3682.

Notes to editors:

1. The Farming Futures animation was created by Luke Marsh: www.lukemarshanimation.com
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2. Farming Futures provides information and inspiration for farmers and land managers via fact sheets, case studies and a series of practical, on-farm events. See http://www.farmingfutures.org.uk/events for more information.   
3. Farming Futures is an industry-led collaborative project between the NFU, CLA, AIC, AHRF, Forum for the Future and Defra to communicate practical action on climate change. Farming Futures is funded by Defra’s Farming for the Future Programme and Act on CO2 until March 2011. The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) and Linking Environment and Farming (LEAF) joined the partnership in March 2010.
4. The farming and land management sector was responsible for 48.4MtCO2e in 2008, or about 7.7% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. Most of these emissions are caused by livestock, fertilisers, and fuel use in farming.