These policies include energy reduction, increased efficiency, more use of renewables, and increased use of sequestration technologies to reduce greenhouse gas levels in the environment. We believe that Monsanto can play an important role in the latter. As a life sciences company with expertise in agricultural systems, our businesses depend on healthy ecological systems. Agricultural sequestration reduces GHG levels, is a technology that exists today where many other technologies will take some time to develop, is effective and easily practiced.
Farmers can sequester carbon through the use of conservation tillage techniques.
Conservation tillage is the practice where seeds are planted directly into the stubble from the previous crop. Keeping root systems in place increases carbon content of soil along with many other environmental benefits. Another advantage is that conservation tillage practices can benefit both developed and developing countries not only through sequestration, but also through their many economic and environmental benefits.