The implications for potential marginal land resources of cassava across worldwide under climate change challenges.

ABSTRACT: The demand for energy plants is foreseen to grow as worldwide energy and climate policies promote the use of bioenergy for climate change mitigation. To avoid competing with food production, it's critical to assess future changes in marginal land availability for energy plant development. Using a machine learning method, boosted regression tree, this study modeled potential marginal land resources suitable for cassava under current and different climate change scenarios, based on cassava occurrence records and environmental covariates. The findings revealed that, currently, over 80% of the 1357.24 Mha of available marginal land for cassava cultivation is distributed in Africa and South America. Under three climate change scenarios, by 2030, worldwide suitable marginal land resources were p

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10499798 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature