Achieving food security and low-carbon agriculture

Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change and, in most places, productivity and yields are likely to suffer. The agricultural sector, however, is also one of the biggest drivers of climate change, accounting for 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions if forestry and land use change are included. Shenggen Fan, director general of the International Food Policy Institute, believes however, that with the right policies in place agriculture can become part of the climate change solution.