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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Investing in mini-livestock production for food security and carbon neutrality in China.

Zhaohai Bai, Xiaofei Wu, Luis Lassaletta, Alexander Haverkamp, Wei Li, Zengwei Yuan, Eduardo Aguilera, Aimable Uwizeye, Alberto Sanz-Cobena, Nannan Zhang and 5 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Zhaohai Bai *Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory of Soil Ecology, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7685-5441
Xiaofei Wu *Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory of Soil Ecology, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, China.
Luis LassalettaResearch Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronomica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9428-2149
Alexander HaverkampLaboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen 6700 AA, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3512-9659
Wei LiDepartment of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Zengwei YuanState Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Eduardo AguileraResearch Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronomica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4382-124X
Aimable UwizeyeAnimal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome 00153, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0646-1292
Alberto Sanz-CobenaResearch Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronomica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2119-5620
Nannan ZhangKey Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory of Soil Ecology, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, China.
Xiangwen FanKey Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory of Soil Ecology, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, China.
Feng ZhuKey Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory of Soil Ecology, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2083-3184
Marcel DickeLaboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen 6700 AA, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8565-8896
Xuan WangKey Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory of Soil Ecology, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, China.
Lin MaKey Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory of Soil Ecology, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, China.

Funding

MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) T2222016
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Future food farming technology faces challenges that must integrate the core goal of keeping the global temperature increase within 1.5 °C without reducing food security and nutrition. Here, we show that boosting the production of insects and earthworms based on food waste and livestock manure to provide food and feed in China will greatly contribute to meeting the country's food security and carbon neutrality pledges. By substituting domestic products with mini-livestock (defined as earthworms and insects produced for food or feed) protein and utilizing the recovered land for bioenergy production plus carbon capture and storage, China's agricultural sector could become carbon-neutral and reduce feed protein imports to near zero. This structural change may lead to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2,350 Tg CO

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LivestockRefuse DisposalAgricultureAnimalsBiodiversityCarbonChinaFoodFood SecurityGreenhouse EffectTemperatureCarbonfood securitygreenhouse gas emissioninsectmitigationprotein

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PMID37844251
PMCPMC10614834

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