Rapid land transformation driven by large scale investments is one of the big trends defining this century. In a virtual briefing for the Global Donor Platform members CIAT agriculture expert Deborah Bossio dismisses the cry for more investments often heard in development circles. From her perspe...
Woldearegay, Kifle
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Tamene, Lulseged
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Mekonnen, Kindu
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Kizito, Fred
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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[Fostering Food Security and Climate Resilience Through Integrated Landscape Restoration Practices and Rainwater Harvesting/Management in Arid and Semi-arid Areas of Ethiopia]
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Fostering Food Security and Climate Resilience Through Integrated Landscape Restoration Practices and Rainwater Harvesting/Management in Arid and Semi-arid Areas of Ethiopia
The implicit hydrologic dimensions of international efforts to mitigate climate change, specifically potential impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism-Afforestation/Reforestation (CDM-AR) provisions of the Kyoto Protocol (KP) on global, regional and local water cycles, are examined. The global...
Trabucco, Antonio
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Zomer, Robert J.
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Straaten, Oliver van
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Verchot, Louis V.
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[Climate change mitigation through afforestation / reforestation: a global analysis of hydrologic impacts]
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Climate change mitigation through afforestation / reforestation: a global analysis of hydrologic impacts
Agroforestry systems and tree cover on agricultural land make an important contribution to climate change mitigation, but are not systematically accounted for in either global carbon budgets or national carbon accounting. This paper assesses the role of trees on agricultural land and their signif...
Zomer, Robert J.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Xu, Jianchu
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Ahrends, Antje
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Trabucco, Antonio
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Noordwijk, Meine van
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Wang, Mingcheng
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[Global tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets]
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Global tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets
Sustainable Development Goals offer an opportunity to improve human well-being while conserving natural resources. Ecosystem services highlight human well-being benefits ecosystems, including agricultural ecosystems, provides. Whereas agricultural systems produce the majority of our food, they dr...
DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.
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Jones, S.K.
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Attwood, S.
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Girvetz, Evan H.
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Chaplin-Kramer, B.
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Enfors, E.
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Fremier, Alexander K.
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Gordon, L.J.
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Kizito, Fred
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Noriega, I.L.
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Matthews, Nathaniel
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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Meacham, M.
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Noble, A.D.
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Quintero, Marcela
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Remans, S.
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Soppe, R.
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Willemen, L.
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Wood, S.L.R.
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Zhang, W.
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[Agricultural ecosystems and their services: the vanguard of sustainability?]
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Agricultural ecosystems and their services: the vanguard of sustainability?
More than 400 million people in the developing world depend on dryland agriculture for their livelihoods. Dryland agriculture involves a complex combination of productive components: staple crops, vegetables, livestock, trees and fish interacting principally with rangeland, cultivated areas and w...
Ginkel, M. van
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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Sinclair, Fergus L.
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Aw-Hassan, Aden A.
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Bossio, Deborah A.
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Craufurd, Peter Q.
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Mourid, M.E.
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Haddad, N.
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Hoisington, D.A.
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Johnson, Nancy L.
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Velarde, C.L.
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Mares, V.
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Mude, Andrew G.
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Nefzaoui, A.
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Noble, A.D.
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Rao, K.P.C.
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Serraj, R.
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Tarawali, Shirley A.
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Vodouhe, R.S.
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Ortiz, R.
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[An integrated agro-ecosystem and livelihood systems approach for the poor and vulnerable in dry areas]
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An integrated agro-ecosystem and livelihood systems approach for the poor and vulnerable in dry areas