Abandoned Farmland Restoration
Below is all the information about the project: Abandoned Farmland Restoration
Around the world, many farmers are abandoning previously cultivated or grazed lands due to factors such as damaging agricultural practices, desertification, and economic challenges, which threaten food security and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. The Abandoned Farmland Restoration solution aims to restore these degraded lands to a productive state, enhancing food security, livelihoods, ecosystem health, and carbon sequestration. While this model focuses on agricultural restoration, it can also be applied to reforesting lands. Given rising global food demand and the need to prevent deforestation emissions, restoring abandoned farmland is a crucial climate solution.
Impact:
Worldwide, millions of hectares of farmland have been abandoned due to land degradation. We project that by 2050, 189.51-296.12 million hectares could be restored and converted to regenerative annual cropping or other productive, carbon-friendly farming systems, reducing carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 12.48-20.32 gigatons. This solution could provide a lifetime net profit of US$2.66-4.34 trillion with an initial investment of US$98.16-159.91 billion and lifetime net operational cost of US$3.24-5.27 trillion, while producing an additional 9.2-15 billion metric tons of food.
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