1. Agriculture, Land Use, Food, and Sequestration
Committee members
Dawn Aubrey, Bruce Branham, Zheyuan (David) Gu,
Amanda Jacobs, Alexandra He, Neal Merchen and Brett Stillwell

2. Sources of GHG
iCAP report estimated 7130 MTE of CO2 annually from south farms.
South farms acres, ~3600 are farmed.
Modern farming practices, primarily tillage but also annual cropping systems, generate C.
Animals ~ 650 cattle, 7500 hogs, 3600 chickens, 45 horses, and 60 sheep. Estimate 44% of GHG emissions from animals and animal products.

3. Dining Services Serve 38,000 meals per day. Sources of GHG emissions.
Food wastes; food transportation

4. SWAT Team Targets Agriculture
Reduce directly related agricultural emissions by 50% by 2020.
Decrease emissions from the farm vehicle fleet by 20% by 2020.

5. SWAT Team Targets Dining
Exceed the state local food procurement standards by purchasing more than 40 percent of food purchases from local sources (<100 miles) by
Zero food waste into landfills by 2016
Reduce pre-consumer food waste to >2% of food produced by 2018.
Reduce post-consumer food waste to > 0.5% of food served

6. SWAT Team Targets Sequestration & Agriculture
Convert 50 acres of U of I farmland to an agroforestry system by 2020.

7. Needs
Better estimates for C emissions from the south farms. Estimates of C sequestration/emissions from farming practices are lacking.
Local foods - what really contributes to greenhouse gas emissions?
Food processing lab on campus is first step towards significantly increasing the % of local food consumed due to the non-alignment of food production with food consumption on campus.

8. Other strategies Proposed
Anaerobic digester key to reducing agricultural impacts. If that doesn’t happen …
Implement a biofuels initiative to convert agricultural biomass into energy production.
Large scale composting facility
Explore biochar as a means to transform agricultural waste while improving soil productivity and sequestering carbon.