Understanding the effects of regenerative agriculture on the soil microbiome, animal health and CO2 emissions

了解再生农业对土壤微生物组、动物健康和二氧化碳排放的影响

• 批准号: 2752917
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Kent
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2752917
• 关键词: Understanding; effects; regenerative; agriculture; soil

There are approximately 9.3 million hectares of farmland in England and through a move to regenerative farming practices agriculture can sequester a significant amount of the CO2e emitted annually in England, helping to achieve agriculture's net zero goal by 2040. Healthier soils are more climate resilient, can hold more water; for example a single teaspoon of healthy soil sustains more organisms than there are humans on earth. Soils with higher organic carbon levels are more productive, require less fertilizer, improve plant and animal health, and reduce flooding. To investigate the role and effect of soil in farming, the aim of this project is to integrate a set of multidisciplinary approaches to evaluate the success of range of regenerative management practices that will be incorporated in a farm setting. As such, we will be joining forces with Re-Generation Earth, that has already established a living laboratory in a farm. This infrastructure combines agroforestry and biochar to the introduction of grazing livestock into a crop rotation. The student will investigate the effect of all these settings on the biology, diversity, ecology and biochemistry of the soil and animals' gut, while also investigating the gas emissions from the soil. Through this multi-disciplinary project, we intend to display how regenerative agriculture can contribute to England's net zero goal. Consequently, we will establish a set of measuring, reporting and verification protocols that ensure carbon credits can be created providing farmers with a new income stream and consumers, availability of credits from natural, UK projects.

英格兰大约有930万公顷的农田，通过转向再生农业实践，农业可以封存英格兰每年排放的大量二氧化碳，有助于到2040年实现农业的净零目标。更健康的土壤更能适应气候变化，可以容纳更多的水;例如，一茶匙健康的土壤可以维持比地球上人类更多的生物。有机碳含量较高的土壤生产力更高，需要更少的肥料，改善植物和动物的健康，并减少洪水。为了调查土壤在农业中的作用和影响，该项目的目的是整合一套多学科方法来评估将纳入农场环境的一系列再生管理实践的成功。因此，我们将与再生地球合作，该公司已经在农场建立了一个活体实验室。该基础设施将农林业和生物炭结合起来，将放牧牲畜引入农作物轮作中。学生将调查所有这些设置对土壤和动物肠道的生物学，多样性，生态学和生物化学的影响，同时还调查土壤的气体排放。通过这个多学科项目，我们打算展示再生农业如何为英格兰的净零目标做出贡献。因此，我们将建立一套衡量、报告和核查协议，确保可以创建碳信用，为农民提供新的收入来源，为消费者提供来自英国自然项目的信用。