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Low-carbon agriculture in South America to mitigate global climate change and advance food security.
Sá, João Carlos de Moraes; Lal, Rattan; Cerri, Carlos Clemente; Lorenz, Klaus; Hungria, Mariangela; de Faccio Carvalho, Paulo Cesar.
Afiliação
  • Sá JC; Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, State University of Ponta Grossa, Av. Carlos Cavalcanti 4748, Campus de Uvaranas, 84030-900 Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil. Electronic address: jcmsa@uepg.br.
  • Lal R; School of Environment and Natural Resources and Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
  • Cerri CC; State University of São Paulo, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Av. Centenário 303, 13416-970, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
  • Lorenz K; School of Environment and Natural Resources and Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
  • Hungria M; Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation - EMBRAPA Soybean, Rodovia Carlos João Strass, Distrito de Warta Caixa Postal: 231, 86001-970, Londrina, PR, Brazil.
  • de Faccio Carvalho PC; Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Department of Forage Plants and Agrometeorology, Porto Alegre, 91540-000, RS, Brazil.
Environ Int ; 98: 102-112, 2017 Jan.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27838119
The worldwide historical carbon (C) losses due to Land Use and Land-Use Change between 1870 and 2014 are estimated at 148 Pg C (1 Pg=1billionton). South America is chosen for this study because its soils contain 10.3% (160 Pg C to 1-m depth) of the soil organic carbon stock of the world soils, it is home to 5.7% (0.419 billion people) of the world population, and accounts for 8.6% of the world food (491milliontons) and 21.0% of meat production (355milliontons of cattle and buffalo). The annual C emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in South America represent only 2.5% (0.25 Pg C) of the total global emissions (9.8 Pg C). However, South America contributes 31.3% (0.34 Pg C) of global annual greenhouse gas emissions (1.1 Pg C) through Land Use and Land Use Change. The potential of South America as a terrestrial C sink for mitigating climate change with adoption of Low-Carbon Agriculture (LCA) strategies based on scenario analysis method is 8.24 Pg C between 2016 and 2050. The annual C offset for 2016 to 2020, 2021 to 2035, and 2036 to 2050 is estimated at 0.08, 0.25, and 0.28 Pg C, respectively, equivalent to offsetting 7.5, 22.2 and 25.2% of the global annual greenhouse gas emissions by Land Use and Land Use Change for each period. Emission offset for LCA activities is estimated at 31.0% by restoration of degraded pasturelands, 25.6% by integrated crop-livestock-forestry-systems, 24.3% by no-till cropping systems, 12.8% by planted commercial forest and forestation, 4.2% by biological N fixation and 2.0% by recycling the industrial organic wastes. The ecosystem carbon payback time for historical C losses from South America through LCA strategies may be 56 to 188years, and the adoption of LCA can also increase food and meat production by 615Mton or 17.6Mtonyear-1 and 56Mton or 1.6Mtonyear-1, respectively, between 2016 and 2050.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Agricultura / Sequestro de Carbono / Abastecimento de Alimentos Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: America do sul Idioma: En Revista: Environ Int Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Holanda

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Agricultura / Sequestro de Carbono / Abastecimento de Alimentos Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: America do sul Idioma: En Revista: Environ Int Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Holanda