Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
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Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
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Re: Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
#2"If farmers increased silvopasture acreage from approximately 550 million hectares today to about 770 million hectares by 2050 (1.36 billion acres to 1.9 billion acres), Drawdown estimated carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced over those 30 years by up to 42 gigatons — more than enough to offset all of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans globally in 2015, according to NOAA — and could return $206 billion to $273 billion on investment."
Re: Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
#3So they rediscovered orchards?
Re: Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
#4> It turns out, people NEED food. Really, it's remarkable. And they'll actually pay dollars for food that you've grown, so that they can then eat it, because otherwise they'll die.
Re: Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
#5So they rediscovered orchards?
It looks to me less like rediscovering orchards, and more mixing them in with livestock/other crops in a beneficial manner.
Re: Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
#6"If farmers increased silvopasture acreage from approximately 550 million hectares today to about 770 million hectares by 2050 (1.36 billion acres to 1.9 billion acres), Drawdown estimated carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced over those 30 years by up to 42 gigatons — more than enough to offset all of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans globally in 2015, according to NOAA — and could return $206 billion to $273…
That means 30 years of work + maintaining the results indefinitely afterwards to offset 1 year worth of emissions?
Re: Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
#7So they rediscovered orchards?
It's more complicated than that. They blend traditional food crops with trees, shrubs, etc, often alongside some kind of transition cycle where they'll change what is growing where over time. Sort of a blend of sustainable logging with farming.
Re: Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
#8So they rediscovered orchards?
It looks to me less like rediscovering orchards, and more mixing them in with livestock/other crops in a beneficial manner.
Mixing with livestock isn't really new either. So long as the animal doesn't kill the trees orchards are pretty great places for animals. I think I've seen orchards that are also hay operations too.
I guess if we get into something more mixed then that they haven't really rediscovered orchards, they've rediscovered permaculture!
Re: Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
#9It's really wild to me that investors realizing foresting exists and continues to exist because it makes money is a story. I did forestry related club stuff in high school for a program called Envirothon and there's a rich history of silviculture in the US and Europe going back a long ways. IIRC, we actually have more forest in the US today than 100 years ago because of silviculture. Notably, the Vanderbilt's started modern silviculture in the US and introduced all sorts of interesting measurements only relevant to foresters to the US like a chain (66 ft imperial) or Diameter Breast Height (the circumference of a tree at 4.5 ft, because that was right around the breast of your average heighted forester).
Re: Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable
#10So they rediscovered orchards?
ernst gotsch is the name to lookup.
Growing food under a forest canopy with plenty of pruning, which creates healthy soil and less/no need for fertilizers. It's an effort to mimic a forest ecosystem and let things grow in their natural way (livestock is another aspect).