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Climate change mitigation and agriculture /

This book reviews the state of agricultural climate change mitigation globally, with a focus on identifying the feasibility, opportunities and challenges for achieving mitigation among smallholder farmers. The purpose is ultimately to accelerate efforts towards mitigating land-based climate change....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wollenberg, Eva
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Earthscan, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Agriculture and climate change mitigation : designing projects and policies for smallholder farmers / Eva Wollenberg, Marja-Liisa Tapio-Biström, Maryann Grieg-Gran
  • Agricultural mitigation approaches for smallholders in different farming systems / Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt and Marja-Liisa Tapio-Biström
  • Evaluating synergies and trade-offs among food security, development and climate change / Nancy McCarthy [and others]
  • Achieving mitigation through synergies with adaptation / Pete Smith and Eva Wollenberg
  • Challenges facing agricultural access to carbon markets / Alessandro De Pinto, Marilia Magalhaes, Claudia Ringler
  • Reducing project costs and risk for farmers in smallholder agriculture carbon projects / Seth Shames, Louise E. Buck, Sara J. Scherr
  • How to make carbon finance work for smallholders in Africa / Bo Lager and Ylva Nyberg
  • Designing agricultural mitigation for smallholders in developing countries : a comparative analysis of projects in East Africa / Jean Lee and Jess Newman
  • Using certification to support climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture / Jeff Hayward [and others]
  • Lessons learned from REDD for agriculture / Christine Negra and Eva Wollenberg
  • Sustainable land management and carbon finance : the experience of the biocarbon fund / Ellysar Baroudy and Neeta Hooda
  • Financing mitigation in smallholder agricultural systems : issues and opportunities / Tanja Havemann
  • Economics of agricultural carbon sequestration in Sub-Saharan Africa / Timm Tennigkeit [and others]
  • The potential for microfinance as a channel for carbon payments / Fred Werneck
  • Payments for environmental services to mitigate climate change : agriculture and forestry compared / Sven Wunder and Jan Börner
  • Avoided deforestation on smallholder farms in the Brazilian Amazon / Osvaldo Stella Martins [and others]
  • An Australian landscape-based approach : AFOLU mitigation for smallholders / Penny van Oosterzee, Noel Preece, Allan Dale
  • Sustaining China's agriculture in a changing climate : a multidisciplinary action through UK-China cooperation / Yuelai Lu [and others]
  • Farm-scale greenhouse gas emissions using the cool farm tool : application of a generic farming emissions calculator in developing countries / Jonathan Hillier [and others]
  • Using biogeochemical process models to quantify greenhouse gas mitigation from agricultural management / Lydia P. Olander
  • An emissions-intensity approach for crediting greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture : reconciling climate and food security objectives in the developing world / Justin S. Baker and Brian C. Murray
  • Emerging techniques for soil carbon measurements / Debora M.B.P. Milori [and others]
  • Carbon accounting for smallholder agricultural soil carbon projects / Matthias Seebauer [and others]
  • Accounting for quality in agricultural carbon credits : a verified carbon standard for agricultural land management projects / Naomi Swickard and Alison Nihart
  • Conservation agriculture as a means to mitigate and adapt to climate change : a case study from Mexico / Nele Verhulst [and others]
  • Potential of agricultural carbon sequestration in Sub-Saharan Africa / Timm Tennigkeit [and others]
  • Livestock and greenhouse gas emissions : mitigation options and trade-offs / Mario Herrero [and others]
  • Home on the range : the contribution of rangeland management to climate change mitigation / Constance L. Neely and Jan De Leeuw
  • Integrated nutrient management as a key contributor to China's low carbon agriculture / David Norse, David Powlson, Yuelai Lu
  • Climate change mitigation in agroforestry systems : linking smallholders to forest carbon markets / Bambi L. Semroc [and others]
  • Livelihood and environmental trade-offs of climate mitigation in smallholder coffee agroforestry systems / Ernesto Méndez [and others]
  • Agricultural intensification as a climate mitigation and food security strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa / James Gockowski and Piet Van Asten
  • Carbon trade-offs along tropical forest margins : lessons from ASB work in Cameroon / Peter A. Minang, Meine van Noordwijk, James Gockowski
  • Mitigation options from forestry and agriculture in the Amazon / Jan Börner and Sven wunder.