{"id":755,"date":"2017-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/new-zealand\/press-release\/governments-agriculture-research-fund-pitiful\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T21:03:57","slug":"governments-agriculture-research-fund-pitiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/governments-agriculture-research-fund-pitiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Government\u2019s agriculture research fund pitiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the Government\u2019s announcement that it will be setting up a new $400,000 scholarship programme for agricultural greenhouse gas research, Greenpeace sustainable agriculture campaigner, Genevieve Toop, says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government\u2019s $400,000 funding commitment to agricultural greenhouse gas research is pitiful compared to the $480 million it has set aside for big irrigation, which will increase the number of cows and our agricultural emissions to record levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe climate would be far better off if we got rid of 400,000 cows rather than spent $400,000 on more research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFewer cows is good for our climate and good for our rivers, yet that\u2019s exactly what the National Government is refusing to commit to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment released a report in 2016 on the options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. 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