Land Management and Climate Change
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Climate change mitigation
Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity today. Atmospheric levels of CO2 are rising more quickly than ever before and there is almost unanimous scientific and political agreement that this is promoting rapid global warming.
Carbon farming
Crops absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and use the carbon to produce organic matter. In traditional agriculture, the focus is on production of commodities which provide food. Carbon farming focuses on fixing carbon in plant matter for energy or sequestration and storage.
Biomass
There are a number of opportunities to exploit biomass. On the cropping side, an array of biomass crops and cropping systems exist. These include miscanthus, switch grass and canary reed grass for arable type systems, or willow, poplar and eucalyptus for short rotation coppice and short rotation forestry.
Sequestration of soil organic carbon
Soil organic carbon is a major global reservoir of carbon. Intensive cultivation of undisturbed land releases a large proportion of that carbon due to enhanced levels of microbial activity. Between a quarter and a third of all GHG emissions since 1850 have come from this source.
Sustainability
Sustaining a global population of 6.7 billion people, a population which is expected to rise and then plateau above 9 billion people over the next 5 decades, is an enormous task. At a minimum, sustainability means meeting the food, energy and environmental needs of the whole community.
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