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“Rambo root” to the rescue: How a simple, low‐cost solution can lead to multiple sustainable development gains

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Title “Rambo root” to the rescue: How a simple, low‐cost solution can lead to multiple sustainable development gains
 
Creator Villarino, Maria Eliza J.
Silva, Mayesse da
Becerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto
Castro-Nuñez, Augusto Carlos
 
Subject cassava
crop production
land restoration
soil improvement
sustainable development goals
producción vegetal
restauración de tierras
mejora de suelos
 
Description Rugged and resilient, cassava is a bulky root crop that can thrive on poor soils. Cultivating it offers the potential to restore degraded land, which in turn may reduce hunger, generate livelihoods, fight climate change and even promote peace. As such, farming cassava offers a nature‐based solution that can contribute to achieving numerous sustainable development targets. The authors acknowledge that scaling up production of any commodity may bring risks of deforestation and biodiversity loss through clearing forest areas. In the case of increasing cassava production, though, this may not be the case because cassava can be cultivated on land affected by degradation, and this resource is abundant; policies and initiatives exist to mitigate those risks; and the principal goal is to scale up a sustainable land use system.
 
Date 2021-02
2021-05-18T10:19:34Z
2021-05-18T10:19:34Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Villarino, M.E.J.; Da Silva, M.; Becerra Lopez‐Lavalle, L.A.; Castro‐Nuñez, A. (2020) “Rambo root” to the rescue: How a simple, low‐cost solution can lead to multiple sustainable development gains. Conservation Science and Practice, Online first paper (20 NOV 2020). 5 p. ISSN: 2578-4854
2578-4854
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113729
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.320
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 5 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Conservation Science and Practice