Outputs (24)

Assessing the Impact of Voluntary Certification Schemes on Future Sustainable Coffee Production (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, K., Njeru, E. M., Garnett, K., & Girkin, N. (2024). Assessing the Impact of Voluntary Certification Schemes on Future Sustainable Coffee Production. Sustainability, 16(13), Article 5669. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16135669

Coffee production faces major sustainability issues and consumers increasingly look to choose certified coffee as awareness grows. While consumers’ understanding of sustainability issues is limited, independent voluntary certification schemes such as... Read More about Assessing the Impact of Voluntary Certification Schemes on Future Sustainable Coffee Production.

The three-peat challenge: business as usual, responsible agriculture, and conservation and restoration as management trajectories in global peatlands (2023)
Journal Article
Girkin, N. T., Burgess, P. J., Cole, L., Cooper, H. V., Honorio Coronado, E., Davidson, S. J., Hannam, J., Harris, J., Holman, I., McCloskey, C. S., McKeown, M. M., Milner, A. M., Page, S., Smith, J., & Young, D. (2023). The three-peat challenge: business as usual, responsible agriculture, and conservation and restoration as management trajectories in global peatlands. Carbon Management, 14(1), Article 2275578. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2023.2275578

Peatlands are a globally important carbon store, but peatland ecosystems from high latitudes to the tropics are highly degraded due to increasingly intensive anthropogenic activity, making them significant greenhouse gas (GHG) sources. Peatland resto... Read More about The three-peat challenge: business as usual, responsible agriculture, and conservation and restoration as management trajectories in global peatlands.

The contribution of natural burials to soil ecosystem services: Review and emergent research questions (2023)
Journal Article
Pawlett, M., Girkin, N. T., Deeks, L., Evans, D. L., Sakrabani, R., Masters, P., Garnett, K., & Márquez-Grant, N. (2024). The contribution of natural burials to soil ecosystem services: Review and emergent research questions. Applied Soil Ecology, 194, Article 105200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.105200

The modern funeral industry faces many environmental risks and challenges, such as the use of sustainable materials for coffins, the release of potentially damaging materials and organisms to the soil and groundwater, and reduced space available for... Read More about The contribution of natural burials to soil ecosystem services: Review and emergent research questions.

Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands (2023)
Journal Article
Young, D. M., Baird, A. J., Morris, P. J., Dargie, G. C., Mampouya Wenina, Y. E., Mbemba, M., Boom, A., Cook, P., Betts, R., Burke, E., Bocko, Y. E., Chadburn, S., Crabtree, D. E., Crezee, B., Ewango, C. E. N., Garcin, Y., Georgiou, S., Girkin, N. T., Gulliver, P., Hawthorne, D., …Lewis, S. L. (2023). Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands. Global Change Biology, 29(23), 6812-6827. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16966

Peatlands of the central Congo Basin have accumulated carbon over millennia. They currently store some 29 billion tonnes of carbon in peat. However, our understanding of the controls on peat carbon accumulation and loss and the vulnerability of this... Read More about Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands.

Opportunities for enhancing the climate resilience of coffee production through improved crop, soil and water management (2023)
Journal Article
Bracken, P., Burgess, P. J., & Girkin, N. T. (2023). Opportunities for enhancing the climate resilience of coffee production through improved crop, soil and water management. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 47(8), 1125-1157. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2023.2225438

Climate change is adversely affecting coffee production, impacting both yields and quality. Coffee production is dominated by the cultivation of Arabica and Robusta coffee, species that represent 99% of production, but both will be affected by climat... Read More about Opportunities for enhancing the climate resilience of coffee production through improved crop, soil and water management.

Mapping Water Levels across a Region of the Cuvette Centrale Peatland Complex (2023)
Journal Article
Georgiou, S., Mitchard, E. T. A., Crezee, B., Dargie, G. C., Young, D. M., Jovani-Sancho, A. J., Kitambo, B., Papa, F., Bocko, Y. E., Bola, P., Crabtree, D. E., Emba, O. B., Ewango, C. E. N., Girkin, N. T., Ifo, S. A., Kanyama, J. T., Mampouya, Y. E. W., Mbemba, M., Ndjango, J.-B. N., Palmer, P. I., …Lewis, S. L. (2023). Mapping Water Levels across a Region of the Cuvette Centrale Peatland Complex. Remote Sensing, 15(12), Article 3099. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123099

Inundation dynamics are the primary control on greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands. Situated in the central Congo Basin, the Cuvette Centrale is the largest tropical peatland complex. However, our knowledge of the spatial and temporal variations... Read More about Mapping Water Levels across a Region of the Cuvette Centrale Peatland Complex.

Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Sakrabani, R., Garnett, K., Knox, J. W., Rickson, J., Pawlett, M., Falagan, N., Girkin, N. T., Cain, M., Alamar, M. C., Burgess, P. J., Harris, J., Patchigolla, K., Sandars, D., Graves, A., Hannam, J., & W Simmons, R. (2023). Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK. Outlook On Agriculture, 52(2), 116-125. https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270231178889

The agricultural sector faces multiple challenges linked to increased climate uncertainty, causing severe shocks including increased frequency of extreme weather events, new pest and disease risks, soil degradation, and pre and postharvest food losse... Read More about Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK.

Estimated emissions from peat soils in the Broads (2023)
Report
Holman, I., Girkin, N., & Truckell, I. (2023). Estimated emissions from peat soils in the Broads. Broads Authority

This report describes work commissioned by the Broads Authority and carried out by Cranfield University to improve the accuracy of estimates of past wastage by installing rust rods and surface rods to monitor peat wastage and to estimate carbon dioxi... Read More about Estimated emissions from peat soils in the Broads.

Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future (2022)
Journal Article
Girkin, N. T., Cooper, H. V., Ledger, M. J., O’Reilly, P., Thornton, S. A., Åkesson, C. M., Cole, L. E., Hapsari, K. A., Hawthorne, D., & Roucoux, K. H. (2022). Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future. Anthropocene, 40, Article 100354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2022.100354

Tropical peatlands are a globally important carbon store. They host significant biodiversity and provide a range of other important ecosystem services, including food and medicines for local communities. Tropical peatlands are increasingly modified b... Read More about Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The present and the future.

Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin (2022)
Journal Article
Garcin, Y., Schefuß, E., Dargie, G. C., Hawthorne, D., Lawson, I. T., Sebag, D., Biddulph, G. E., Crezee, B., Bocko, Y. E., Ifo, S. A., Mampouya Wenina, Y. E., Mbemba, M., Ewango, C. E. N., Emba, O., Bola, P., Kanyama Tabu, J., Tyrrell, G., Young, D. M., Gassier, G., Girkin, N. T., …Lewis, S. L. (2022). Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin. Nature, 612(7939), 277–282. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05389-3

The forested swamps of the central Congo Basin store approximately 30 billion metric tonnes of carbon in peat1,2. Little is known about the vulnerability of these carbon stocks. Here we investigate this vulnerability usingpeat cores from a large inte... Read More about Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin.