Description: Carbon Farming Ltd can offset carbon emissions using trees planted on an organic farm, while growing food crops for local people between the trees for local people. This systems creates very biodiverse habitats for plants and animals, particularly bees and butterflies. Fields also become a combination of orchard, wood and pasture where livestock can graze as well.
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As custodians of the land, farmers are well placed to seek opportunities in the growing demand for solutions to climate change. Whether they are led by technological, economic or social changes, new markets are being created. The attempts to shift to a lower carbon (C) economy have even created a new term, “Carbonomics”, a science which will become a major driver at corporate as well as consumer level. Carbon inflation will mean that the cost of goods and services must rise as the impact on the environment