India, May 7 -- New report claims twice the amount spend on agricultural subsidies; suggests India replacediesel irrigation pumps with solar

Replacing a quarter of India's 8.8 million diesel irrigation pumps with solar pumps would cut agrifood emissions by 11.5 million tonnes per year. This is more than double the five million tonnes of global emissions that electric vehicles and solar panels prevented in 2020, according to a new World Bank report on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agrifood systems.

The report, Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System , outlined actions that every country can take to make food supplies more secure, help the food system better withstand climate change and pr...