التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Investing in mini-livestock production for food security and carbon neutrality in China. |
| المؤلفون: |
Zhaohai Bai, Xiaofei Wu, Lassaletta, Luis, Haverkamp, Alexander, Wei Li, Zengwei Yuan, Aguilera, Eduardo, Uwizeye, Aimable, Sanz-Cobena, Alberto, Nannan Zhang, Xiangwen Fan, Feng Zhu, Dicke, Marcel, Xuan Wang, Lin Ma |
| المصدر: |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 10/24/2023, Vol. 120 Issue 43, p1-8, 82p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
CARBON offsetting, GREENHOUSE gas mitigation, FOOD security, CARBON sequestration, ANIMAL waste, SOYBEAN meal |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
CHINA |
| مستخلص: |
Future food farming technology faces challenges that must integrate the core goal of keeping the global temperature increase within 1.5 °C without reducing food security and nutrition. Here, we show that boosting the production of insects and earthworms based on food waste and livestock manure to provide food and feed in China will greatly contribute to meeting the country’s food security and carbon neutrality pledges. By substituting domestic products with mini-livestock (defined as earthworms and insects produced for food or feed) protein and utilizing the recovered land for bioenergy production plus carbon capture and storage, China’s agricultural sector could become carbon-neutral and reduce feed protein imports to near zero. This structural change may lead to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2,350 Tg CO2eq per year globally when both domestic and imported products are substituted. Overall, the success of mini-livestock protein production in achieving carbon neutrality and food security for China and its major trading partners depends on how the substitution strategies will be implemented and how the recovered agricultural land will be managed, e.g., free use for afforestation and bioenergy or by restricting this land to food crop use. Using China as an example, this study also demonstrates the potential of mini-livestock for decreasing the environmental burden of food production in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
|
Copyright of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America is the property of National Academy of Sciences and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
Full Text Finder