The '4 per mille Soils for Food Security and Climate'was launched at the COP21 with an
aspiration to increase global soil organic matter stocks by 4 per 1000 (or 0.4%) per year as a …

Degraded lands have often been suggested as a solution to issues of land scarcity and as
an ideal way to meet mounting global demands for agricultural goods, but their locations …

Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture
and natural resources. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished …

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) specifies the use of biofuels in the United States and
thereby guides nearly half of all global biofuel production, yet outcomes of this keystone …

Global demand for agricultural products such as food, feed, and fuel is now a major driver of
cropland and pasture expansion across much of the develo** world. Whether these new …

Land-use changes are critical for climate policy because native vegetation and soils store
abundant carbon and their losses from agricultural expansion, together with emissions from …

Recent analyses of the energy and greenhouse-gas performance of alternative biofuels
have ignited a controversy that may be best resolved by applying two simple principles. In a …

As efforts to mitigate climate change increase, there is a need to identify cost-effective ways
to avoid emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Agriculture is rightly recognized as a …

Bioenergy deployment offers significant potential for climate change mitigation, but also
carries considerable risks. In this review, we bring together perspectives of various …

Brazil is a major sugarcane producer and its production more than doubled over the last
decades to meet global bioenergy demands for reducing crude oil dependency and …