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– To put it cautiously: the measure will have very negative consequences for Norway’s production and food self-sufficiency, says MP Bjørn Gimming in the Norwegian Bondelag a Dagbladet.
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The farmers team submitted a 33-page consultation note to the comprehensive Klimakur 2030 report, which was prepared on behalf of the government.
– This proposal seems to be poorly reasoned and poorly researched. There is nothing on which to build a climate policy for agriculture, says Gimming.
– Red meat drop
The Climate Change Report proposes measures that can reduce emissions equivalent to 50 million tons of CO₂ over ten years. The study refers to 60 different climatic measures analyzed in several different sectors.
Among the measures is a large-scale transition from meat to a more plant-based diet. This will help agriculture reduce more than 5 million tons of CO₂ equivalents by 2030.
– The greatest reduction potential here lies in the change in diet and less food waste. The dietary measure is that we gradually eat less red meat and more plant-based food and fish, the Environment Agency press release said when the report was released in January.
The report shows that the measure assumes that consumers change habits and that agriculture changes sharply in the direction of food grains, fruits, berries and vegetables.
– warns
The farmers team “strongly warns” the dietary measures in the consultation statement and is based on research that Agri Analysis is behind.
The bottom line of the analysis company, owned exclusively by the Norwegian Agricultural Association and the Norwegian Farmers Association, is that the diet plan violates the Storting’s stated goal for sustainable agriculture across the country.
His calculations show that the dietary initiative will accelerate the trend toward fewer farms: a total of 8,900 uses and 300,000 grazing animals will disappear in the next ten years. The decline will be greatest in regions where meat production dominates today, that is, in western Norway and northern Norway.
But the consequences are not limited only to the agricultural industry_
– In many communities, municipalities and various regions, closing the scope described will cause production environments to crumble and disappear, and service, goods receipts, processing companies, as well as sales companies and other local companies they will lose their business base, Agri Analysis writes in the report. its.
– Porridge and swelling
Bjørn Gimming at the Norwegian Farmers Union believes that the Klimakur report proposal is not only unfortunate and dramatic for agriculture. He also thinks it is completely unrealistic.
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– Consumers are supposed to be changing their diet to something similar to what we had in the country decades ago. We need to eat more potatoes and cabbage root and less pasta and rice. And we need to grow more barley and oats. Then it will return to porridge and swell, he says.
Gimming explains:
– Norwegian agriculture has to use the resources we have. And it is mainly grass. So we need to graze animals, cows and sheep. It’s red meat, he says, noting that the proper area for cereals, fruits and vegetables in Norway is limited.
He adds that farmers’ organizations have already committed to reducing their own emissions by 4 to 6 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents by 2030, without reducing meat production.
– There is a lot at Climate Cure that we support, such as better fertilizers, carbon sequestration, fossil-free machinery and heating. I don’t think we are avoiding the responsibility for climate cuts, he says.
– Significant deficiencies
Critical to the proposal is also the Faculty of Life Sciences of the Norwegian University of Environmental and Life Sciences (NMBU). In the summary, they state that the database and metrics underlying the measure have “significant deficiencies and insufficient scientific quality.”
The Government is subject to the conclusions of Agri Analysis and should be familiar with the inquiry response from the Farmers Association.
It is not common for responsible ministers to comment regularly on an audience, but a response has been offered to climate minister Sveinung Rotevatn (V) and agriculture minister Olaug Bollestad (KrF).
“Many consultative contributions have been received, and we will take a closer look at those that are relevant to us and consider them in subsequent work on parliamentary notification,” Secretary of State Widar Skogan at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food said in a written comment. to Dagbladet.
– We have important agricultural policy objectives, such as food security, agriculture across the country, increased value creation and sustainable agriculture, which also form the basis of work on climate change, he says.
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