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Scientific Articles About Greenhouse Gas Sequestration by Regenerative Ranching Practices

EMBRAPA - Greenhouse gas balance and carbon footprint of pasture-based
beef cattle production systems in the tropical region

  • EMBRAPA is Brazil's Agricultural Research Institution. It is highly recognized internationally and it's scientific production over the past 60 years is considered the key factors that made Brazil a food cellar for the world.

  • Published by: Cambridge University Press, Animal Consortium, Animal Magazine (2020), 14:S3, pp s427–s437

  • Extensive research conducted by over 300 scientists at EMBRAPA, between 2014 and 2020, across several biomes, has demonstrated that 1,30 tons (net) of Green House Gases (GHGs) per hectare per year can be removed from the environment thru Regenerative Ranching;

  • The study was supported by Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases, New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Center and others.

Selection of all Research by EMBRAPA

  • In this link you will find a collection of over 50 scientific articles produced by EMBRAPA's scientists on the subject of Green House Gases and Ranching.

The Role of Ruminants in Reducing Agriculture's Carbon Footprint in North America - Teaque et. al.

  • This article is based on research conducted in the United States.

  • Published by: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 2016

  • Teague et. al. collected substantial data from peer-reviewed literature to compare the relative contributions of GHG emissions from major agricultural sources, and explored five different potential grazing systems.

  • This study indicated that that 0,1 to 1,20 tons (net) of GHGs per hectare per year can be removed from the environment thru Regenerative Ranching;

Videos

  • Harvard University Lecture by Walter Jehne - Microbiologist and Climate Scientist

  • Walter Jehne is an internationally recognized climate scientist, soil microbiologist and innovation strategist. He has immense field and research experience in forests, grasslands, agriculture and soils at national (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) and international (United Nations) level.  Walter’s scientific work has focused for many decades on plant root ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin, and soil carbon formation, as well as on biology's enormous influences in hydrological cycles, weather patterns, regional and global cooling, and cloud formation and rain precipitation.

    Walter has also worked more broadly beyond science, at Federal Government level, leading transformation in industry and policy. This diversity of experience has given Walter a unique and exceptional capacity to devise solutions – turning challenges into opportunities. This year he was part of an invitation only UN Food and Agriculture Organization  conference in Paris looking at bringing soil into the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. Walter has a remarkable ability to explain complex science and economic paths forward in easy to understand ways.

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