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REUTERS
LONDON
CLIMATE CHANGE discussions should focus more on food production and cutting food waste, but a lack of knowledge is fuelling public resistance, former US Presdent Barack Obama wrote in a major British newspaper on Friday.
Obama said although food production is the second leading driver of greenhouse gas emissions after energy production, efforts to tackle climate change have largely focused on the latter.
"People naturally understand that big smokestacks have pollution in them - they understand air pollution, so they can easily make the connection between energy production and greenhouse gases,"he wrote in the Guardian newspaper.
"Most people aren't as familiar with the impact of cows and methane."
Obama, who made climate change a top priority during his eight-year presidency, warned that no country would escape its effects.
He said limiting the impact of food production on climate change would require innovation from scientists and entrepreneurs as well as funding from companies and states.
Developing smarter agriculture will include creating better seeds as well as crops that grow with less water and crops that grow in harsher climates, he added.
Mobile technologies that give farmers more agricultural data - including satellite imagery and weather forecasting - will also help them know when, where and what to plant.
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