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Excerpt from phys.org
Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change. Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while well-intended policy choices can create incentives for farmers to till up new lands, releasing even more heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.
That’s why strategies for sustainable plant-based fuels focus on marginal lands—fields that are too hard to cultivate or don’t produce good enough yields to be considered profitable.
A new tool developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison could help relieve that tension.