Paludiculture
Sign in to savePaludiculture is wet agriculture and forestry on peatlands. Paludiculture combines the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands through rewetting with continued land use and biomass production under wet conditions. "Paludi" comes from the Latin "palus" meaning "swamp, morass" and "paludiculture" as a concept was developed at Greifswald University. Paludiculture is a sustainable alternative to drainage-based agriculture, intended to maintain carbon storage in peatlands. This differentiates paludiculture from agriculture like rice paddies, which involve draining, and therefor
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- wetland
- Subclass of
- agriculture
- Image
- Paludi-bederkesa-2 hg.jpg
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- Commons category
- Paludiculture
- located in/on physical feature
- peatland
- discoverer or inventor
- University of Greifswald
- has characteristic
- carbon sequestration
- different from
- paddy field
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25 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Impact of peatland drainage and rewetting
- Arguments for cultivating crops on wet peatlands
- Arguments against cultivating crops on wet peatlands
- Debates around the sustainability of paludiculture
- Paludiculture and ecosystem services
- Management
- Paludiculture around the world
- Tropical Peatlands
- Congo Basin
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Peru
- Northern Peatlands
- Belarus
- Canada
- Finland
- Germany
- Ireland
- Lithuania
- The Netherlands
- Russia
- United Kingdom
- Examples of potential crops for cultivation on wet and rewetted peatlands
- References
Paludiculture is wet agriculture and forestry on peatlands. Paludiculture combines the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands through rewetting with continued land use and biomass production under wet conditions. "Paludi" comes from the Latin "palus" meaning "swamp, morass" and "paludiculture" as a concept was developed at Greifswald University. Paludiculture is a sustainable alternative to drainage-based agriculture, intended to maintain carbon storage in peatlands. This differentiates paludiculture from agriculture like rice paddies, which involve draining, and therefore degrading wetlands.
== Characteristics ==
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