Yes, natural farming, also known as organic farming, can play a role in mitigating climate change. Here's how:

• Reduced greenhouse gas emissions: Organic farming avoids synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, whose production relies on fossil fuels and releases greenhouse gasses. Studies suggest eliminating synthetic nitrogen fertilizers alone could significantly reduce agricultural emissions.
• Improved soil carbon sequestration: Organic practices like cover cropping and crop rotation promote healthy soil teeming with microbes. These practices help trap carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the soil, acting as a carbon sink.

Crop rotation itself doesn't contribute to climate change. In fact, it's a key strategy in natural farming that helps mitigate climate change by:

• Reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers: Rotating crops with nitrogen-fixing legumes like beans or peas replenishes soil nitrogen naturally, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers.
• Improving soil health: Crop rotation helps prevent nutrient depletion and fosters beneficial soil microbes, leading to healthier soil that can store more carbon.

Here are some mitigation technologies for sustainable agriculture:

• Precision agriculture: Using sensors and data analysis to optimize fertilizer and water use, reducing waste and emissions.
• Conservation tillage: Minimizing soil disturbance to improve soil health and carbon sequestration.
• Biofertilizers and biopesticides: Utilizing natural alternatives to synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, reducing reliance on fossil fuel-based inputs.

While natural farming offers benefits, it's important to note that it may have lower yields compared to conventional methods. However, research is ongoing to improve organic farming techniques and integrate them with new technologies for a more sustainable and climate-friendly agricultural future.

Dr Murtadha Shukur thank you for your contribution to the discussion

YES, sustainable natural farming is a natural strategy to mitigate climate change. crop rotation is an example of a natural strategy deliberately undertaken to mitigate the negative effect of climate change in sub Saharan Africa.

Dr Sunday Brownson Akpan thank you for your contribution to the discussion

Yes, sustainable natural farming is a natural strategy for mitigating climate change. Crop rotation is one example of a natural strategy purposively undertaken to mitigate the impact of climate variability and change for sustainable agriculture.

Dr Eric Nilson Donkoh thank you for your contribution to the discussion

Yes, natural farming, also known as organic farming, can play a role in mitigating climate change. Reduced greenhouse gas emissions: Organic farming avoids synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, whose production relies on fossil fuels and releases greenhouse gasses. Organic agriculture techniques can contribute significantly to sequestration of CO2 in the soil. Agriculture can help to mitigate climate change by a) reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and b) by sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere in the soil. Organic Regenerative Agriculture an have beneficial impacts in multiple ways. By relying on the use rotation cover crops and organic amendments the carbon footprint of monoculture grain farming is reduced by half or slightly more. Crop rotation can effectively improve the climate resilience of crops through the enhancement of water dynamics, soil health, and biological conditions in planting systems. Soil and water management for crop production has a strong impact, both negative and positive, on the drivers of climate change. A large number of crop production practices contribute to emissions of greenhouse gas, and in particular to carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. When done correctly it can also reduce soil erosion, enhance biodiversity, and improve the quality as well as fertility of the soil. It also increases soil organic carbon. Crop rotation is good for the environment because it encourages biodiversity, lowers pesticide and fertilizer usage, prevents soil erosion, improves soil health, and lessens the effects of climate change. Agriculture mitigation practices, such as crop and grazing land management, agroforestry and restoring cultivated organic soils generate high co-benefits for the smallholders, such as raise in productivity, household food security, and increased resilience and ecosystem services. Agriculture has a positive and important role to play in climate change mitigation: crops, hedgerows and trees sequester carbon from the atmosphere and properly managed soils provide carbon storage. Farmers now use automated harvesters, drones, autonomous tractors, seeding, and weeding to transform how they cultivate their crops. The technology takes care of menial and recurring tasks, allowing them to focus on more critical functions. Zero tillage, or no-till farming, is a method which eliminates the need to plough the soil or the use of any heavy farm machinery. Because the soil is not disturbed as much as with regular farming methods, the amount of greenhouse gases released from the soil is reduced and less erosion and runoff occurs. By reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing carbon sequestration, sustainable agriculture can also help mitigate the impacts of climate change.