scholarly journals Planning land use for biogas energy crop production: The potential of cutaway peat production lands

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 355-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Laasasenaho ◽  
Anssi Lensu ◽  
Jukka Rintala
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Energy Crop ◽  
Biogas Energy

Energy crop production in an urban area: a comparison of habitat types and land use forms targeting economic benefits and impact on species diversity

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Brunzel ◽  
Jacinta Kellermann ◽  
Milen Nachev ◽  
Bernd Sures ◽  
Daniel Hering
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Energy Crop ◽  
Habitat Types

scholarly journals Dynamics and Uncertainty in Land Use Conversion for Perennial Energy Crop Production: Exploring Effects of Payments for Ecosystem Services Policies

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (02) ◽  
pp. 328-358
Author(s):  
Xiaogu Li ◽  
Katherine Y. Zipp
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Biofuel Production ◽  
Energy Crop ◽  
Payments For Ecosystem Services ◽  
Chesapeake Bay Watershed ◽  
Nitrogen Runoff ◽  
Perennial Energy Crops

Perennial energy crops like switchgrass that are used for biofuel production have the potential to generate various water quality benefits such as reduced nitrogen runoff. Yet the current expected returns to switchgrass are not profitable enough for these crops to be widely adopted by U.S. farmers due to relatively unstable yields, volatile revenues, and high costs of crop establishment. This study uses a dynamic economic model to investigate the uncertainties in the yields and costs of switchgrass production, in comparison with those of corn-soybeans in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in Pennsylvania. Results indicate that farmers would be willing to convert corn-soybeans to switchgrass land use with the provision of payments for ecosystem services (PES). A targeted PES policy based on the environmental effectiveness of the crop land is found to be slightly more effective in providing nitrogen reductions than a uniform PES policy with cost savings of 8–19%. Moreover, switchgrass has the potential of providing energy supply while reducing greenhouse gases emissions.

Forcing Germany's renewable energy targets by increased energy crop production: A challenge for regulation to secure sustainable land use practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 296-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Lupp ◽  
Reimund Steinhäußer ◽  
Anja Starick ◽  
Moritz Gies ◽  
Olaf Bastian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Energy Crop ◽  
Land Use Practices

scholarly journals A GIS-Based Simulation Method for Regional Food Potential and Demand

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 880
Author(s):  
Keyu Bao ◽  
Rushikesh Padsala ◽  
Volker Coors ◽  
Daniela Thrän ◽  
Bastian Schröter
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Type ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Energy Crop ◽  
Food Demand ◽  
Regional Food ◽  
Animal Product ◽  
Food Potential

A quantitative assessment of food-water-energy interactions is important to assess pathways and scenarios towards a holistically sustainable regional development. While a range of tools and methods exist that assess energetic demands and potentials on a regional scale, the same is not true for assessments of regional food demand and potential. This work introduces a new food simulation workflow to address local food potential and demand at the regional level, by extending an existing regional energy-water simulation platform. The goal of this work is to develop a GIS-based bottom-up approach to simulate regional food demand that can be linked to similarly GIS-based workflows assessing regional water demands and energetic demands and potentials. This allows us to study food-water-energy issues on a local scale. For this, a CityGML land use data model is extended with a feed and animal potential raster map as well as a soil type map to serve as the main inputs. The workflow simulates: (1) the vegetal and animal product food potentials by taking climate, crop type, soil type, organic farming, and food waste parameters into account; (2) the food demand of vegetal and animal products influenced by population change, body weight, age, human development index, and other indicators. The method is tested and validated in three German counties with various land use coverages. The results show that restricting land used exclusively for energy crop production is the most effective way to increase annual food production potential. Climate change by 2050 is expected to result in annual biomass yield changes between −4% and 2% depending on the region. The amount of animal product consumption is expected to rise by 16% by 2050, while 4% fewer vegetal products are excepted to be consumed.

scholarly journals Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Land Use Change for Cellulosic Energy Crop Production

2011 ◽  
Vol 90 (6) ◽  
pp. 562-568
Author(s):  
Hirotsugu KAMAHARA ◽  
Yuki KUDOH ◽  
Yutaka GENCHI ◽  
Tomoaki MINOWA MINOWA ◽  
Masayuki SAGISAKA
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Energy Crop ◽  
Gas Emissions

The main directions of scientific support for the implementation of the system of organic farming in Ukraine

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (90) ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
V.F. Kaminskyi ◽  
S.G. Korsun
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Scientific Support ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Organic Crop Production ◽  
Advanced Production ◽  
And Training ◽  
Organizational Issue

The aim of this work was to study the basic directions of scientific support introduction of organic farming in Ukraine. The study used methods of comparison, synthesis, analysis, induction and deduction. The article indicated on the main areas that need special attention from researchers and suggests one possible mechanism to remove the remaining obstacles to organizational issue introduction of scientific developments in the production of organic and training areas. This can speed up the creation of new and manage existing land ownership and land use organic farming with the introduction of advanced production technology of organic crop production.

Deferring Crisis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Stewart Mauldin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Westward Expansion ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Land Use Practices ◽  
Ecological Regime

This chapter explores the ecological regime of slavery and the land-use practices employed by farmers across the antebellum South. Despite the diverse ecologies and crop regimes of the region, most southern farmers employed a set of extensive agricultural techniques that kept the cost of farming down and helped circumvent natural limits on crop production and stock-raising. The use of shifting cultivation, free-range animal husbandry, and slaves to perform erosion control masked the environmental impacts of farmers’ actions, at least temporarily. Debates over westward expansion during the sectional crisis of the 1850s were not just about the extension of slavery, they also reflected practical concerns regarding access to new lands and fresh soil. Both were necessary for the continued profitability of farming in the South.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Approaches to Regional Land-Use Capability Analysis for Agricultural Land-Planning

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Tara A. Ippolito ◽  
Jeffrey E. Herrick ◽  
Ekwe L. Dossa ◽  
Maman Garba ◽  
Mamadou Ouattara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Field Samples ◽  
Agricultural Potential ◽  
Fertility Data ◽  
Using Data

Smallholder agriculture is a major source of income and food for developing nations. With more frequent drought and increasing scarcity of arable land, more accurate land-use planning tools are needed to allocate land resources to support regional agricultural activity. To address this need, we created Land Capability Classification (LCC) system maps using data from two digital soil maps, which were compared with measurements from 1305 field sites in the Dosso region of Niger. Based on these, we developed 250 m gridded maps of LCC values across the region. Across the region, land is severely limited for agricultural use because of low available water-holding capacity (AWC) that limits dry season agricultural potential, especially without irrigation, and requires more frequent irrigation where supplemental water is available. If the AWC limitation is removed in the LCC algorithm (i.e., simulating the use of sufficient irrigation or a much higher and more evenly distributed rainfall), the dominant limitations become less severe and more spatially varied. Finally, we used additional soil fertility data from the field samples to illustrate the value of collecting contemporary data for dynamic soil properties that are critical for crop production, including soil organic carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen.

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