A significant challenge to increasing the area of plantations of high-value timber species is maintaining the income of smallholders while the trees grow to harvestable size. Potential solutions include incentive payments (including payments for environmental services), and encouraging smallholders to grow...
Higher mitigation potentials are achieved when the spatial distribution of land-based options outside priority areas is allocated to the option that delivers the highest mitigation potential per individual grid cell. Given the influence of irrigation and CCS on the results, estimates are given both wi...
Mangrove forests store high densities of organic carbon, which, when coupled with high rates of deforestation, means that mangroves have the potential to contribute substantially to carbon emissions. Consequently, mangroves are strong candidates for inclusion in nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to...
The hypotheses about this keystone event in the history of the island are classified into anthropic (active deforestation by humans, excessive fruit consumption by introduced rats), climatic (forest demise due to mid-late Holocene droughts and/or other climate shifts), and combined (synergistic ...
Theuseofplant-basedleatherscomesduringatimewhenscientistsandinnovatorsaretryingtocomeupwithsolutionsfortheclimatecrisisandanimalagriculture.Environmentally,manufacturinganimal-basedleatherscreateshavocbecauseofdeforestationandmethaneemissionsconnectedtotheanimalsraisedforleathers.However,someexpertscriticizethenewmushroom-based...
Carrageenan has a greater potential to be used as a gel-forming material due to its versatility. For example, λ-carrageenan creates viscous solutions that do not form gels, whereas κ-carrageenan forms hard, strong, and brittle gels, and ι-carrageenan forms soft, elastic, and weak gels.84...
The use of plant-based leathers comes during a time when scientists and innovators are trying to come up with solutions for the climate crisis and animal agriculture. Environmentally, manufacturing animal-based leathers creates havoc because of deforestation and methane emissions connected to the animals...
agriculture has increased C emissions but not improved food security.Paludiculture on shallow peatlands can reduce C emissions compared to OP plantations.Shrublands on peatlands can be replaced to grow crops under paludiculture.Sustainable agriculture solutions have to be adapted to local circumstances....
Natural climate solutions (NCS) present opportunities to address climate change while promoting biodiversity conservation and human well-being. The IPCC suggests that to prevent global temperature increases beyond 2 °C, NCS must remove and store around 10 GtCO2 from the atmosphere annually, of ...
While the majority of the dietary transition debates in the literature have focused on the food we should eat, an oft-forgotten barrier to implementing these theoretical solutions is practical constraints across the agri-food supply chain that may prevent their potential from being fully realised53....