{"id":244743,"date":"2026-10-01T05:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/edible-fungi-crops-through-mycoforestry-potential-for-carbon-negative-food-production-and-mitigation-of-food-and-forestry-conflicts"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:34:03","slug":"edible-fungi-crops-through-mycoforestry-potential-for-carbon-negative-food-production-and-mitigation-of-food-and-forestry-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/edible-fungi-crops-through-mycoforestry-potential-for-carbon-negative-food-production-and-mitigation-of-food-and-forestry-conflicts","title":{"rendered":"Edible fungi crops through mycoforestry, potential for carbon negative food production and mitigation of food and forestry conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/edible-fungi-crops-through-mycoforestry-potential-for-carbon-negative-food-production-and-mitigation-of-food-and-forestry-conflicts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Demand for agricultural land is a potent accelerating driver of global deforestation, presenting multiple interacting issues at different spatiotemporal scales. Here we show that inoculating the root system of tree planting stock with edible ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) can reduce the food-forestry land-use conflict, enabling appropriately managed forestry plantations to contribute to protein and calorie production and potentially increasing carbon sequestration. Although, when compared to other food groups, we show that EMF cultivation is inefficient in terms of land use with a needed area of ~668 m<sup>2<\/sup> y kg<sup>\u22121<\/sup> protein, the additional benefits are vast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demand for agricultural land is a potent accelerating driver of global deforestation, presenting multiple interacting issues at different spatiotemporal scales. Here we show that inoculating the root system of tree planting stock with edible ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) can reduce the food-forestry land-use conflict, enabling appropriately managed forestry plantations to contribute to protein and calorie production [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}