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

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 e

SUBMITTER: Bai Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10614834 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature