Sentences with phrase «on degraded lands»
Many perennial bioenergy crops are prime candidates to grow on degraded land not suited to food production.
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With over 1.3 billion people reliant on degrading land and exposed to an unprecedented level of climate stress, the situation is expected to worsen.
Nonetheless, when managed sustainably — such as by prioritising the cultivation of feedstock crops on degraded lands and avoiding the clearing of virgin forest — biofuel grown for export can make a significant contribution to national development goals.
«Reducing fossil fuel use is a precondition for stabilizing the climate, but we also need to make use of a range of options from reforestation on degraded land to low - till agriculture and from efficient irrigation systems to limiting food waste.»
Some researchers argue that growing bioenergy feedstocks on degraded lands would avoid competition for land.
By planting improved perennials, it would be possible to produce many times the biomass originally harvested from plants on degraded lands and thus reduce atmospheric CO2.
For instance, a sustainable food production system could operate on degraded land, but that doesn't mean the land will ever be improved or brought back to a biologically diverse state.
Camps are built on the degraded land to house trainees, who then learn how to regenerate the soil.
«Sustainable production of agricultural biofuels on degraded lands that are unsuitable for food production could provide immediate environmental benefits.»
Bamboo is renewable and can be used on degraded land.
What this shows is that the majority of oil palm plantations were developed on degraded lands, meaning forests converted to ferns, grasslands and scrubs by drought and recurrent burning, mainly during El Nino years,» Gaveau said in a presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.
Ecuador, which has agreed to restore 500,000 hectares, has said it will offer farmers grants to replant and protect forests on their degraded lands.
grow on degraded land: Mehmood, M.A., et al. «Biomass Production for Bioenergy Using Marginal Lands.»
On state - and community - owned lands, carbon finance would be used to fund sustainable development initiatives, like planting crops on degraded lands and reforestation.
NEW DELHI — Hoping to kick - start another green revolution, the Indian government on 5 October announced the creation of a research center to develop wheat and maize varieties that thrive in warmer temperatures and on degraded land.
Other ways of producing biofuels in the tropics — on degraded lands, former agricultural areas and so on — are clearly possible, and could have tremendous environmental, economic and social benefits.»
Tilman and his colleagues found that, in addition to producing more than twice the biomass than single - species planting (not less than 238 % more than switchgrass), multiple - species plantations restored biodiversity, grew on degraded land and — perhaps most importantly — could be carbon negative.