Countries vary in their institutional technical and financial abilities to prepare for climate change in
agriculture and to balance food security, adaptation, and mitigation goals.Indicators for climate readiness provide guidance to countries and enable monitoring progress. Readiness assessments ...
Carbon price policies deliver cost-efficient mitigation across sectors, but can result in tradeoffs with food security and other sustainable development goals. Scenarios for a 1.5 °C world based on carbon prices could increase the undernourished population by 80 - 300 million in 2050. Applying a ...
Frank, Stefan
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Havlík, Petr
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Valin, Hugo
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Hasegawa, Tomoko
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Obersteiner, Michael
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[Carbon prices, climate change mitigation & food security: How to avoid trade-offs?]
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Carbon prices, climate change mitigation & food security: How to avoid trade-offs?
Reducing emissions by changing consumption of
foods with large greenhouse gas emissions could
have a major impact on climate change. Yet past
efforts to change diets through public policy have
had mixed results, suggesting that recent
estimates of technical mitigation potential likely
exceed feas...
Wilkes, Andreas
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Kiff, Laura
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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White, Julianna M.
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[Shifting food consumption to mitigate climate change is critical to fulfilling the Paris Agreement, but how?]
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Shifting food consumption to mitigate climate change is critical to fulfilling the Paris Agreement, but how?
KEY FINDINGS
Cattle producers joined sustainability initiatives primarily to increase production, reduce production costs, learn new practices and access innovations, and because of their interest in sustainability.
Farmers who shifted to sustainable intensification practices increased their prod...
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
Build on market development lessons from the coffee sector to enhance sustainability, quality, traceability, and branding in the cattle sector.
Expand sustainability initiatives’ capacity to deliver market access, technical assistance, and finance services to more cattle fa...
Pinto LFG
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Hajjar, Reem
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Newton, Peter
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Agrawal, A.
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Adshead D
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Bini, Denici
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Bogaerts, Meghan
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Cirhigiri, Lora
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Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice
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Gonzáles Chaves, A.
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McDermott C
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Milder, Jeffrey C.
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Pinho P
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Robinson, I.
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Rodkin M
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Transitioning to more sustainable, low-emissions agriculture in Brazil]
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Transitioning to more sustainable, low-emissions agriculture in Brazil
REDD initiatives are more likely to succeed if they build on the interests of forest communities and indigenous people. More attention is needed to the balance of incentives, benefits, rights and political participation across levels of decision making, interest groups and administration. Incenti...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Springate-Baginski, O.
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[Incentives +: how can REDD improve well-being in forest communities?]
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Incentives +: how can REDD improve well-being in forest communities?
An estimated 18 to 37 billion tons of carbon could be sequestered in croplands globally over the next 20 years by implementing best practices for soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration (Zomer et al. 2017). In addition, more than 380 billion tons of carbon are at risk of loss from carbon dense pe...
Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increasing soil or biomass carbon stocks are the main agricultural pathways to mitigate climate change. Scientific and policy attention has recently turned to evaluating the potential of practices that can increase soil carbon sequestration. Forty perce...
Hijbeek, Renske
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Loon, Marloes P. van
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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White, Julianna M.
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Ittersum, Martin K. van
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[Fertiliser use and soil carbon sequestration: Key messages for climate change mitigation strategies]
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Fertiliser use and soil carbon sequestration: Key messages for climate change mitigation strategies
Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration on agricultural land decreases the costs of climate change mitigation while promoting increased food security. SOC has the potential to sequester up to 3.5 GtCO2eq/yr by 2050 in a scenario consistent with 1.5 ºC warming. In total, the SOC sequestration pote...
Frank, Stefan
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Havlík, Petr
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Soussana, Jean-Francois
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Obersteiner, Michael
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[The potential of soil organic carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation and food security]
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The potential of soil organic carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation and food security
This info note offers an overview of the distribution of agricultural emissions among countries and the relative contribution of agriculture to national emissions. It is based on three data sources: the FAOSTAT database of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, United States Environmental Pro...
Richards, Meryl
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Buglion-Gluck S
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[Agriculture's contribution to national emissions]
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Agriculture's contribution to national emissions