Sustainability of sugarcane production in Brazil. A review

RO Bordonal, JLN Carvalho, R Lal… - Agronomy for …, 2018 - Springer
Brazil is a major sugarcane producer and its production more than doubled over the last
decades to meet global bioenergy demands for reducing crude oil dependency and …

Bioenergy for climate change mitigation: Scale and sustainability

K Calvin, A Cowie, G Berndes, A Arneth… - GCB …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many global climate change mitigation pathways presented in IPCC assessment reports rely
heavily on the deployment of bioenergy, often used in conjunction with carbon capture and …

Land use and management effects on sustainable sugarcane-derived bioenergy

MR Cherubin, JLN Carvalho, CEP Cerri, LAH Nogueira… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bioenergy is an important and feasible option for mitigating global warming and climate
change. However, large-scale land-use change (LUC) to expand bioenergy crops, such as …

Current and emerging methodologies for estimating carbon sequestration in agricultural soils: A review

AK Nayak, MM Rahman, R Naidu, B Dhal… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review covers the current and emerging analytical methods used in laboratory, field,
landscape and regional contexts for measuring soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration in …

Production and use of biofuels for transport in Poland and Brazil–The case of bioethanol

J Mączyńska, M Krzywonos, A Kupczyk, K Tucki… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper was to compare the markets and methods of production of
ethanol to be used in transport in Poland and Brazil. Differences in terminology associated …

Soil physical changes induced by sugarcane cultivation in the Atlantic Forest biome, northeastern Brazil

RQ Cavalcanti, MM Rolim, RP de Lima, UE Tavares… - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
In northeastern Brazil, the sugarcane expansion has occurred historically over the Atlantic
Forest biome. However, little is known about the physical process and changes induced by …

[HTML][HTML] What are the impacts of sugarcane production on ecosystem services and human well-being? A review

D El Chami, A Daccache, M El Moujabber - Annals of Agricultural Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper provides a narrative systematic review (SR) of the impacts of sugarcane
production on different ecosystems employing the ecosystem services framework. The …

Climate-smart agriculture and soil C sequestration in Brazilian Cerrado: a systematic review

DMS Oliveira, RLM Tavares, A Loss… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices, mainly no-tillage (NT), cover cropping (CC), soil
fertilization with organic amendments (OA), and crop-livestock (CL) and crop-livestock …

Monitoring soil quality changes in diversified agricultural cropping systems by the Soil Management Assessment Framework (SMAF) in southern Brazil

FB da Luz, VR da Silva, FJK Mallmann… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2019 - Elsevier
Assessment and monitoring impacts of agricultural systems on soil quality are imperative to
establish best management practices and sustainable land use for mitigating climate …

Changes in soil carbon and soil carbon sequestration potential under different types of pasture management in Brazil

DC De Oliveira, SMF Maia, RCA Freitas… - Regional Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
There are currently 180 million hectares under pasture in Brazil, and despite the country
being one of the largest meat producers, there remain around 64 million hectares that show …