What is the prospect of a perennial grain revolution of agriculture?

Summary, in Swedish

Agriculture has been dominated by annual plants, such as all cereals and oilseeds, since the very beginning of civilization over 10,000 years ago. Annual plants are planted and uprooted every year which results in severe disturbance of the soil and disrupts ecosystem services. Science has shown that it is possible to domesticate completely new perennial grain crops, i.e. planted once and harvested year after year. Such crops would solve many of the problems of agriculture, but their development and uptake would be at odds with the current agricultural technology industry.

• Författare: Lennart Olsson; Elina Andersson; Jonas Ardö; Timothy Crews; Christophe David; Lee R. DeHaan; Axel Hilling; Aubrey Streit Krug; Michael G Palmgren; Sergio Rey; Torbern Tagesson; Anna Westerbergh; Patrik Vestin
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för handelsrätt; Lunds skatteakademi; LUCSUS; Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
• Publiceringsår: 2024-09-25
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 1-17
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Global Sustainability
• Volym: 7
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.27
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Cambridge University Press
• Ämne: Agricultural and Veterinary sciences; Social Sciences; Other Agricultural Sciences
• Nyckelord: agriculture; policies; politics and governance
• Aktiv: Published
• Projekt: Is there a PERENNIAL future of agriculture?; Domestication 2.0 - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
• Forskningsgrupp: Lund Tax Academy
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 2059-4798