A Midwest USA Perspective on Von Cossel et al.’s Prospects of Bioenergy Cropping Systems for a More Social-Ecologically Sound Bioeconomy

Moore, Ken; Kling, Catherine L.; Raman, D. Raj

doi:10.3390/agronomy10111658

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“…Economic models that integrate biophysical information about outcomes of alternative technologies with economic information about the costs and benefits of various choices and the non-market impacts of these choices can be applied to examine the optimal mix of intensive, extensive, and technology switching choices. Examples of these integrated models applied to the technologies being considered here range in scale from a small region (see Isik & Khanna, 2003;Khanna et al, 2002) to national and global scales (see review in Hudiburg et al, 2016;Khanna et al, 2014;Moore et al, 2020). These models can vary in the preferences of the decision makers they analyze (such as their risk and time preferences), their inclusion of various uncertainties about technology performance and location specific characteristics (e.g.…”

Section: Economic Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inducing the adoption of emerging technologies for sustainable intensification of food and renewable energy production: insights from applied economics*

Khanna¹,

Miao²

2021

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Emerging advances in sustainable intensification technologies have the potential to transform land use and crop management approaches in ways that can increase resource productivity and reduce adverse environmental impacts of agricultural production. This paper describes emerging technologies that can sustainably intensify food and renewable energy production. We apply the findings from studies examining the adoption of technologies with similar stylized features to provide insights about the incentives and barriers for the adoption of these emerging technologies. We also present a landscape-based systems approach, based on welfare economics, to go beyond relying on a positive approach to explain observed adoption decisions to examining normative questions about the optimal mix, level, and location of adoption of these technologies to achieve desired societal outcomes. We conclude with a discussion of the insights from applied economics for the design of policy incentives to achieve these outcomes.

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Section: Economic Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inducing the adoption of emerging technologies for sustainable intensification of food and renewable energy production: insights from applied economics*

Khanna¹,

Miao²

2021

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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“…This review article has thus shown that there are large gaps in knowledge about the best possible use of regions where agricultural land is marginal for LRD. Much more research is needed on the suitability of known herbaceous and woody industrial crops for LRD conditions in order to make the best use of such sites for biomass production in terms of more social-ecologically sustainable agriculture [73,74]. Certainly, this need does not exist if a site is allowed to lose arable status, because reforestation with coldinsensitive woody crops will then be the best solution.…”

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Biomass Yield of Selected Herbaceous and Woody Industrial Crops across Marginal Agricultural Sites with Shallow Soil

2021

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Agricultural land in Europe is affected by low rooting depth (LRD) on 27.9 Mha. This marginal agricultural land can potentially be used to grow industrial crops without directly threatening food security or biodiversity conservation. However, little is known about the yield performance of industrial crops at LRD conditions. This study therefore compiles and discusses the meaningful data available in scientific literature. Twelve relevant industrial crops were identified for Europe. Currently, robust information on good growth suitability for LRD conditions is available for only one industrial crop, namely reed canary grass (RCG). Because this information was taken from field trial results from a single site, it remains unclear what role other growing conditions such as soil quality and climate play on both the yield level and the biomass quality of RCG under LRD conditions. These uncertainties about the quantitative as well as qualitative performance of industrial crop cultivation on marginal agricultural land characterized by LRD represent a major agronomic knowledge gap. Here, more knowledge needs to be compiled through both expanded crop science activities and improved international information exchange to make more optimal use of the large LRD areas available for the transition to a bioeconomy.

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“…[2,16] During the Anthropocene, humans can benefit from system thinking by finding more harmonious ways to interact with nature, [17] for example by moving toward social-ecologically more sustainable cropping systems. [18,19] So how is it possible to balance anthropogenic activity while maintaining the ecosystem's integrity of the farm and the surrounding land? This is a complex challenge, because it requires considering both the time-and scale-dependent interactions between ES and a shared consensus among communities, countries, and nations at large.…”

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“…[ 2 , 16 ] During the Anthropocene, humans can benefit from system thinking by finding more harmonious ways to interact with nature, [ 17 ] for example by moving toward social‐ecologically more sustainable cropping systems. [ 18 , 19 ]…”

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Ecosystem Services at the Farm Level—Overview, Synergies, Trade‐Offs, and Stakeholder Analysis

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Over the past decade, research has intensified on how to evaluate and manage these ES to minimize environmental impacts of business and everyday life. [8] Concepts such as civic ecology, [9] sustainable development, [10][11][12] and the bioeconomy [13,14] are being rapidly operationalized and often integrate ecological practices into their implementation strategies, by way of how we interact with nature. In this regard, philosopher and scientist Aldo Leopold wrote in the mid-20th century: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." [15] Similarly, the paradigm of civic ecology [9] is founded in subjective philosophy, which aims to expand our awareness of the natural world and the systems in place.One of the fundamental practices in civic ecology is systems thinking, with the idea that individuals should form a relation to nature, like they do to a human community. Further, systems thinking is frequently used in science to understand how individuals interact with the system. For instance, an ecosystem shares this attribute, where a dynamically evolving system is influenced by interacting, individual elements including air, water, soil, microbes, plants, and animals. Unfortunately, this notion is often ignored, because the provisioning The current geological epoch is characterized by anthropogenic activity that greatly impacts on natural ecosystems and their integrity. The complex networks of ecosystem services (ESs) are often ignored because the provision of natural resources, such as food and industrial crops, is mistakenly viewed as an independent process separate from ecosystems and ignoring the impacts on ecosystems. Recently, research has intensified on how to evaluate and manage ES to minimize environmental impacts, but it remains unclear how to balance anthropogenic activity and ecosystem integrity. This paper reviews the main ESs at farm level including provisioning, regulating, habitat, and cultural services. For these ESs, synergies are outlined and evaluated along with the respective practices (e.g., cover-and intercropping) and ES suppliers (e.g., pollinators and biocontrol agents). Further, several farm-level ES trade-offs are discussed along with a proposal for their evaluation. Finally, a framework for stakeholder approaches specific to farm-level ES is put forward, along with an outlook on how existing precision agriculture technologies can be adapted for improved assessment of ES bundles. This is believed to provide a useful framework for both decision makers and stakeholders to facilitate the development of more sustainable and resilient farming systems.

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A Midwest USA Perspective on Von Cossel et al.’s Prospects of Bioenergy Cropping Systems for a More Social-Ecologically Sound Bioeconomy

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Inducing the adoption of emerging technologies for sustainable intensification of food and renewable energy production: insights from applied economics*

Inducing the adoption of emerging technologies for sustainable intensification of food and renewable energy production: insights from applied economics*

Biomass Yield of Selected Herbaceous and Woody Industrial Crops across Marginal Agricultural Sites with Shallow Soil

Ecosystem Services at the Farm Level—Overview, Synergies, Trade‐Offs, and Stakeholder Analysis

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