Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming

S Spillias, H Valin, M Batka, F Sperling, P Havlík… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Agricultural expansion to meet humanity's growing needs for food and materials is a leading
driver of land-use change, exacerbating climate change and biodiversity loss. Seaweed …

Climate benefits of seaweed farming

HK Alleway - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
Seaweed farming is gaining attention as a potential climate change mitigation solution, but
how to achieve such potential is uncertain given current knowledge and practice. A study …

[HTML][HTML] Economic and biophysical limits to seaweed farming for climate change mitigation

J DeAngelo, BT Saenz, IB Arzeno-Soltero, CA Frieder… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
Net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets are driving interest in opportunities for
biomass-based negative emissions and bioenergy, including from marine sources such as …

[HTML][HTML] Potential role of seaweeds in climate change mitigation

FWR Ross, PW Boyd, K Filbee-Dexter… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Seaweed (macroalgae) has attracted attention globally given its potential for climate change
mitigation. A topical and contentious question is: Can seaweeds' contribution to climate …

A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets

CM Duarte, A Bruhn, D Krause-Jensen - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Seaweed aquaculture accounts for 51.3% of global mariculture production and
grows at 6.2% yr− 1 (2000–2018). It delivers a broad range of ecosystem services, providing …

[HTML][HTML] Seaweed's contribution to food security in low-and middle-income countries: Benefits from production, processing and trade

P Webb, NK Somers, SH Thilsted - Global Food Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Calls are growing for food system transformation to meet human and planetary goals (Bai et
al., 2022; Bock et al., 2022). The United Nations Food Systems Summit of 2021, for example …

Seaweed and food security

J Forster, R Radulovich - Seaweed sustainability, 2015 - Elsevier
By 2050, human demand for food will increase by 70% or 5.4 thousand million tons per year.
However, agriculture's capacity to sustain this demand is constrained by a lack of additional …

[HTML][HTML] Blue growth potential to mitigate climate change through seaweed offsetting

HE Froehlich, JC Afflerbach, M Frazier, BS Halpern - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Carbon offsetting—receiving credit for reducing, avoiding, or sequestering carbon—has
become part of the portfolio of solutions to mitigate carbon emissions, and thus climate …

[HTML][HTML] Can seaweed farming play a role in climate change mitigation and adaptation?

CM Duarte, J Wu, X Xiao, A Bruhn… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Seaweed aquaculture, the fastest-growing component of global food production, offers a
slate of opportunities to mitigate, and adapt to climate change. Seaweed farms release …

[HTML][HTML] Marine foods sourced from farther as their use of global ocean primary production increases

RA Watson, GB Nowara, K Hartmann, BS Green… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The growing human population must be fed, but historic land-based systems struggle to
meet expanding demand. Marine production supports some of the world's poorest people …