2024 Ethiopia

Homestead agroforestry for stabilizing food, economic and ecoclimatic nexus

Authors: Mokria, Mulugeta; Hagazi, Niguse; Hadgu, Kiros Meles; Said, Hadia; Abiyu, Abrham; Hailemariam, Gebrehiwot; Bräuning, Achim; Gebrekirstos, Aster

Promoting homestead agroforestry is widely recognized as an effective and holistic approach to food production and sustainable land use, offering numerous environmental, economic, and social benefits. This research aims to quantify the food, economic, and environmental advantages of avocado-based homestead agroforestry systems in Ethiopia. The study collected socio-economic, biophysical, and fruit yield data from selected households (HH) and their respective trial plots. Results indicated that

Read full article

2024 South Africa

Life Cycle Assessment of an Avocado: Grown in South Africa-Enjoyed in Europe

Authors: Blaauw, Sheldon A.; Broekman, André; Maina, James W.; Steyn, Wynand J. v. d. M.; Haddad, William A.

"Food production is known to have significant environmental impacts, with the main contributors residing in the farming and transportation life cycle phases. Of the various food products transported around the world, avocados have increasingly gained attention as a high-commodity superfood. Avocados require specific climatic and agricultural conditions for farming, with the most fertile land and conditions located outside Europe. Consequently, most avocados consumed in Europe are imported over vast

Read full article

2018 USA

Carbon Removal in Forests and Farms in the United States

Authors: Mulligan, J.; Ellison, G.; Gasper, R.; Rudee, A.

The purpose of this working paper is to explore the potential for carbon removal in forests and farms in the United States, to identify needs likely to arise on the pathway to large-scale deployment, and to consider ways to begin addressing those needs. This working paper is part of a World Resources Institute (WRI) publication series CarbonShot: Creat­ing Options for Carbon Removal at Scale in the United States. The series presents findings from a WRI-led assessment of needs for scaling candidate

Read full article

2008 Mexico

Carbon content in vegetation, litter, and soil under 10 different land-use and land-cover classes in the Central Highlands of Michoacan, Mexico

Authors: Ordonez, J.A.B; de Jong, B.H.J; Garcia-Oliva, F.; Avina, F.L.; Perez, J.V.; Guerrero, G.; Martinez, R.; Masera, O.

In this study we estimated the carbon content in vegetation, litter, and soil, under 10 different classes of land-use and land-cover classes (LU/LC) in the Purepecha Region, located in the Central Highlands of Mexico. Forests in this area are representative of the montane forests of Central and Southern Mexico and are subject to rapid degradation and deforestation by human pressure. Carbon data for each of the LU/LC classes and the main pools (vegetation, soil and litter) were collected at 92 sites

Read full article