Integrated water management practices can reduce carbon emissions and subsidence rates in tropical peatland agriculture. These findings underscore the importance of adopting sustainable land-use practices in peatland areas to balance agricultural productivity with environmental conservation.Download the Full Paper <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024026926" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>

Integrated water management practice in tropical peatland agriculture has low carbon emissions and subsidence rates

Future food production is expected to meet the capacity in providing food for 9.7 billion people in the world by 2050. As the population rises, the demand for rice cropping areas in Indonesia will double to approximately 16.5 million ha by 2040. Deploying arable land intensification alone would hardly fill the gap. In Indonesia, around 140,000 – 187,000 hectares of agricultural areas have been lost due to residential or industrial purposes every year, especially in Java Island. This research attempted to explore the viable farming method to improve rice production in peatland which has the potential to be cultivated as arable land.This article is published in IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 752, 2021

Lesson Learned from the Development of Sustainable Rice Farming in Peatland

Abstrak untuk Seminar Nasional Lahan Suboptimal 2019. Kompleksitas dan kondisi alamiah lahan suboptimal membuatnya seringkali kurang dimanfaatkan dan ditinggalkan sebagai lahan tidur ataupun dieksploitasi hingga menimbulkan masalah lingkungan. Padahal, lahan suboptimal bisa menjadi jawaban terhadap tantangan kompetisi konversi lahan untuk pertanian dan non pertanian—terlebih saat populasi global diperkirakan akan mencapai 10 miliar di tahun 2050.

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