Agriculture needs to feed 9 billion people by 2050. This will require a 70 100% increase in food production (Godfray et al. 2010). Given climate change, a new kind of agriculture is therefore essential, one that must meet the triple challenge not only of ensuring food security, but also of adapti...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Nihart, A
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Holmgren, Peter
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Seymour F
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Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele
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Braun, Joachim von
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[Actions Needed to Halt Deforestation and Promote Climate-Smart Agriculture]
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Actions Needed to Halt Deforestation and Promote Climate-Smart Agriculture
Strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) could become an important part of a new agreement for climate change mitigation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. We constructed a system dynamics model for a cocoa agroforest landsca...
Sandker, M.
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Nyame, S. K.
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Forster, J.
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Collier, N.
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Shepherd, G.
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Yeboah, D.
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Ezzine-de-Blas, D.
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Machwitz, M.
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Vaatainen, S.
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Garedew, E.
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Etoga, G.
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Ehringhaus, C.
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Anati, J.
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Quarm, O.D.K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[REDD payments as incentive for reducing forest loss]
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REDD payments as incentive for reducing forest loss
When negotiations began on the post-2012 global climate change regime, forests and forestry returned to the international stage (Angelsen, 2008). I ask whether it is the time now for agriculture, and whether climate change initiatives in forestry and agriculture can contribute to poverty alleviat...