Reducing emissions from agriculture – the role of new farm technologies

Footnotes

1 The update to Scotland's 2018-2032 Climate Change Plan sets out the Scottish Government's pathway to new and ambitious targets set by the Climate Change Act 2019

2 It is notable that these estimates will not take into account the full life-cycle of emissions, specifically the indirect emissions from, e.g. more computer processing, importing raw materials from abroad etc.

3 The Devolved Administration GHG Inventory 1990-2019

4Securing a green recovery on a path to net zero: climate change plan 2018–2032 - update

5 Farmer-led climate change groups

6 De Clercq, M., Vats, A., & Biel, A. (2018). Agriculture 4.0: The future of farming technology. Proceedings of the World Government Summit, Dubai, UAE, 11-13.

7 Within the spreadsheet produced as part of this project there is the oppourtunity to change weights for the individual aspects of the implementation scores, if there is a desire to promote one aspect, e.g., cost saving, over others.

8 The full ranking and scores are available in the spreadsheet produced as part of this project.

9 Mitigating the carbon footprint and improving productivity of ruminant livestock agriculture using a red seaweed

10 Seaweed can reduce methane emissions & feed costs in cattle. Report from University of California, Davis.

11 Yale University Picture Archive g

12 Biochar_A_Vital_Source_for_Sustainable_Agriculture

13 Pereira AG, Fraga-Corral M, Garcia-Oliveira P, Otero P, Soria-Lopez A, Cassani L, Cao H, Xiao J, Prieto MA, Simal-Gandara J. Single-Cell Proteins Obtained by Circular Economy Intended as a Feed Ingredient in Aquaculture. Foods. 2022; 11(18):2831. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11182831

14 Top 5 soybean alternatives: 5. Single-cell protein

15 Soil Fertility Monitoring With Internet of Underground Things: A Survey

16 An underground, wireless, open-source, low-cost system for monitoring oxygen, temperature, and soil moisture

17 These are costs identified by the Soil Scout System

18 Jason Grealey, Loïc Lannelongue, Woei-Yuh Saw, Jonathan Marten, Guillaume Méric, Sergio Ruiz-Carmona, Michael Inouye, The Carbon Footprint of Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 39, Issue 3, March 2022, msac034, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac034.

19 The Dairy Barn, Redesigned

20 Tark Laut Smart cattle housing project