Contributing to the EU’s transition to carbon neutrality in agriculture

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Publication date	Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
Keywords	carbon footprint mitigation of climate change farm resilience

Agriculture is a major source of greenhouse gases (10% of total emissions from human activities), but at the same time it holds a great potential to sequester and store carbon in plants, trees and soils. Estonian farmer Ando Eelmaa has set up a long-term farming system which has a minimal carbon footprint and has brought about many other benefits for the farm.

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