Ocean-healing 3D agriculture and forestry: Earthuse with Marine Agronomy by Ocean Foresters
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Semi-Finalist Evaluation
Judges'' comments
This is a weak attempt to get support for a different proposal on seaweed forests submitted to the global context. And they are wrong to say that the oceans have been neglected here. In fact several of the individual contests have had oceans proposals submitted, including the one that they are promoting. This is not supportable.
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(1) It is a very complete list of items that are addressed in this presentation. It provides a very nice description of the activities. About 20 million tons/yr of seaweed is now farmed worldwide, almost all in Asia. But this is only 0.3% of food farmed on land. Yet the oceans cover 70% of Earth. This vast space can be more effectively used to sustain humanity. This is not a new idea, the U.S. Marine Biomass Program having done pioneering work in this area in the 1970s. What is new is appreciation of the urgency to find climate-change-immune food security, and advances in aquaculture techniques that make the prospect of oceanic farming more ocean-healing.
(2) There is no information on emissions reduction in “How much will emissions be reduced or sequestered vs. business as usual levels?
(3) It also expects no proposal costs. Claims that marine agronomy can be profitable throughout the world. Costs are not reported in the text.
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