Transition from Animal-Based to Plant-Based Food Production to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture—The Case of Denmark
Round 1
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Reviewer 2 Report
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The authors report on “Transition from Animal Feed to Plant-Based Food Production to Reduce the Climate Impact of Agriculture – the Case of Denmark ". Climate change is occurring at an alarming rate causing an increase in temperature and sharp decline in precipitation. One of the factors that impact the climate change is agriculture, so there is an urgent need to reduce the climate change impact and fulfill the goals of the Paris Agreement. The authors have emphasized that shifting diet from meat-based products to plant based products is one of the key strategies to curb the effect of climate change. They found a great potential for reducing the emissions using the Planetary Health Diet, with reductions up to 92.9%. They also demonstrated that the potentiality large profits from the transitioning.
The current manuscript provides useful information and represents a valuable contribution about an important subject. The paper is generally well written and structured. The authors have provided background information and tried to encompass all relevant references in the introduction part. They used appropriate research design and described methodology section fairly well. The result part was nicely presented. The authors compared and contrasts their findings from related previous studies, using data from other crops too. The overall quality of this manuscript is very good. However, the written presentation and readability can be improved by simplifying the language, shortening complex sentence structures, correcting many apparent typographical errors and enlisting the aid of an English language editor or editing service.
I would request the authors to work on improving the overall quality of the manuscript by working on enhancing the written presentation and readability by simplifying the language, by shorting the complex sentences, and correcting the typographical errors.
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Reviewer 3 Report
The manuscript sustainability-951629, entitled “Transition from animal feed to plant-based food production to reduce the climate impact of agriculture – the case of Denmark” deals about the effects of Planetary Health Diet implementation on climate change impact of agricultural activity in Denmark. In particular, this study hypothesizes that the reduction in emissions from the agricultural sector is possible through the adoption of the transition scenarios depends to a large degree on four main parameters; Level of implementation of the PHD; level of replacement of imported soy; restoration of organic soils and; estimate used for the carbon sequestration per ha of afforested area. Taking into consideration the topic investigated, its relevance and strategic importance I believe that the manuscript is of potential interest for readers of Sustainability and fall within its scope. The research of the data, their organization and the articulation of the hypotheses are well carried out and useful to reach solid considerations. The approximations made make sense and do not lead to big evaluation errors. However, in the future, further refinements are needed to take account of the EU agricultural policy and subsidies. The conclusions are well written and based on the retrieved results.
I suggest to modify the title as follows: “Transition from animal feed to plant-based food production to reduce the GHG emission from agriculture – the case of Denmark”. Moreover, in the whole manuscript, I suggest to change “Restoration of Organic Soils” with “Land restoration” or “Agricultural soils restoration”.
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