In 2015 over 190 countries signed the Paris Climate Change Agreement to achieve net zero by 2050. A decade later these same countries are now grappling with complex challenges concerning land use policy with profound implications for agriculture. For example, how much land should be retained for food production and how much should be repurposed to achieve key goals such as improved carbon sequestration? Farming and land use change to achieve net zero: Achieving multi-functional landscapes reviews key issues in planning land use change at a national scale, highlighting the importance of involving and negotiating trade-offs with stakeholders such as farmers and landowners. The book also explores ways to implement particular land use changes such as rewetting farmland to restore peatland, reforestation and growing bioenergy crops (such as Miscanthus and willow) to create multi-functional landscapes that meet both food production and environmental goals. Edited by a world-renowned expert, the book will be a standard reference for university and other researchers in environmental and agricultural science, as well as government and other agencies supporting the transition to net zero in agriculture. Dr Guy Robinson is Adjunct Professor at Adelaide University, Australia. He is also a LISA Fellow in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK. As an internationally-renowned expert on the environmental aspects of rural development around the globe, he has held positions at many leading universities.

Professor Robinson is Emeritus Editor of the leading journal Land Use Policy, which he edited for 12 years, and is Editor-in-Chief of Research in Globalization .