Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] Fwd: [UKFG list] Organic farming can reverse the agriculture ecosystem from a carbon source to a carbon sink
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 23:50:04 +0100
In our every day practice, by using forest shrubs (some legumes) as animal
bedding we reduce fuel for fires,
crop residues and animal droppings are piled up in a daily layer,
a fermentation results that raises the animal shed temperature, specially
helpful during chilly winter.
- read here about how we have been doing it, in steep and rocky, warm
temperate, central Portugal mountains
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:
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> From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org>
> Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:43 PM
> Subject: Fwd: [UKFG list] Organic farming can reverse the agriculture
> ecosystem from a carbon source to a carbon sink
>
> Best wishes
> Jonathan
>
>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-04/scp-ofc042915.php
> Organic farming can reverse the agriculture ecosystem from a carbon source
> to a carbon sink
>
> > SCIENCE CHINA PRESS
>
> > IMAGE: THIS IMAGE SHOWS PROCESSES OF GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSION AND
> SEQUESTRATION IN THE STUDIED AGRO-ECOSYSTEM. view more
> >
> > CREDIT: (c)SCIENCE CHINA PRESS
> >
> > Approximately 35% of global greenhouse gases (GHGs) come from
> agriculture. Some argues that human can reverse global worming by
> sequestering several hundred billion tons of excess CO2 through
> regenerative, organic farming, ranching and land use. Increasing the soil's
> organic content will not only fix carbon and reduce emissions, it will also
> improve the soil's ability to retain water and nutrients and resist pests
> and droughts.
> >
> > To mitigate GHG emissions and retain soil fertility, organic agriculture
> might be a wise choice for decreasing the intensive use of synthetic
> fertilizers, protecting environments, and further improving crop yields.
> Recent research showed that replacing chemical fertilizer with organic
> manure significantly decreased the emission of GHGs. Organic farming can
> reverse the agriculture ecosystem from a carbon source to a carbon sink.
> >
> > To explore the potential of farmlands acting as a carbon sink without
> yield losses, Jiang Gaoming, a professor at the Chinese Academy of
> Sciences' Institute of Botany, conducted an experiment on a temperate
> eco-farm in eastern rural China. Crop residues were applied to cattle feed
> and the composted cattle manure was returned to cropland with a winter
> wheat and maize rotation. Crop yield and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
> were carefully calculated according to the Intergovernmental Panel on
> Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
> 2006.
> >
> > This study showed that replacing chemical fertilizer with organic manure
> significantly decreased the emission of GHGs. Yields of wheat and corn also
> increased as the soil fertility was improved by the application of cattle
> manure. Totally replacing chemical fertilizer with organic manure decreased
> GHG emissions, which reversed the agriculture ecosystem from a carbon
> source (+ 2.7 t CO2-eq. hm-2 yr-1) to a carbon sink (- 8.8 t CO2-eq. hm-2
> yr-1).
> >
> > Making full use of crop residues as forage for cattle, collecting and
> composting cattle manure, and replacing part of the chemical fertilizer
> input with organic manure have been successfully shown to be ideal choices
> to reduce energy waste and cut GHG emissions without crop yield losses. A
> combination of organic manure and chemical fertilizer demonstrated the best
> result in improving soil quality and crop yields, while decreasing GHG
> emissions. Solely utilizing chemical fertilizer on the farmland not only
> led to increased GHG emissions, but also deteriorated the quality of the
> soil.
>
> > This research was jointly funded by the Key Strategic Project of the
> Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSZD-EW-Z-012-2) and the National Science and
> Technology Support Program, China (No.2012BAD14B00).
> >
> > See the article:
> >
> > Haitao Liu, J.L., Xiao Li, Yanhai Zheng, Sufei Feng, Gaoming Jiang. 2015.
> Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions through replacement of chemical
> fertilizer with organic manure in a temperate farmland. Science Bulletin,
> 60(6), 598-606.
> >
> > Science China Press
> >
> > http://www.scichina.com/
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Re: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] Fwd: [UKFG list] Organic farming can reverse the agriculture ecosystem from a carbon source to a carbon sink,
joao pedro goncalves, 05/13/2015