Concerns exist regarding potential trade-offs between climate change mitigation in
agriculture and food security. Against this background, the Global Biosphere
Management Model (GLOBIOM) is applied to a range of scenarios of mitigation
of emissions from agriculture to assess the implications of c...
Kleinwechter, U.
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Levesque A
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Havlík, Petr
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Forsell N
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Zhang Y
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Fricko O
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Obersteiner, Michael
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[Global food efficiency of climate change mitigation in agriculture]
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Global food efficiency of climate change mitigation in agriculture
Studies of global environmental change make extensive use of scenarios to explore how the future can evolve under a consistent set of assumptions. The recently developed Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) create a framework for the study of climate-related scenario outcomes. Their five narrativ...
Oliver, Fricko
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Havlík, Petr
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Rogelj, Joeri
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Klimont, Zbigniew
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Gusti, Mykola
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Johnson, Nils
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Kolp, Peter
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Strubegger, Manfred
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Valin, Hugo
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Amann, Markus
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Ermolieva, Tatiana
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Forsell, Nicklas
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Heyes, Chris
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Kindermann, Georg
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Krey, Volker
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McCollum, David L.
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Obersteiner, Michael
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Pachauri, Shonali
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Rao, Shilpa
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Schmid, Erwin
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Schoepp, Wolfgang
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Riahi, Keywan
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[The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century]
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The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century
In this letter, we investigate the effects of crop yield and livestock feed efficiency scenarios on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture and land use change in developing countries. We analyze mitigation associated with different productivity pathways using the global partial equilibri...
Valin, Hugo
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Havlík, Petr
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Mosnier, Aline
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Schmid, Erwin
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Obersteiner, Michael
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[Agricultural productivity and greenhouse gas emissions: Trade-offs or synergies between mitigation and food security?]
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Agricultural productivity and greenhouse gas emissions: Trade-offs or synergies between mitigation and food security?
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?
The presentation addresses how reducing agricultural GHG emissions impacts food security, and what the trade-offs are.
Presentation given by Stefan Frank at the European Geosciences Union conference on 24 April 2017.
Frank, Stefan
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Havlík, Petr
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Soussana, Jean-Francois
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Levesque, A
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Valin, Hugo
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Kleinwechter, U.
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Fricko, Oliver
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Gusti, Mykola
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Smith, P.
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Hasegawa, T.
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Kraxner, Florian
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Obersteiner, Michael
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[Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture without compromising food security?]
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture without compromising food security?
Tropical deforestation is estimated to cause about one-quarter of anthropogenic carbon emissions, loss of biodiversity, and other environmental services. United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change talks are now considering mechanisms for avoiding deforestation (AD), but the economic p...
Kindermann, Georg
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Obersteiner, Michael
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Sohngen, B.
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Sathaye, J
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Andrasko, K.
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Rametsteiner, E
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Schlamadinger, B.
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Wunder, Sven
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Beach, Robert H.
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[Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation]
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Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation
Preservation of biodiversity and reduction of deforestation are considered as key elements when addressing an increased use of bioenergy in the future. This paper presents different combinations of scenarios for global feedstock supply for the production of bioenergy under specified social and en...
Kraxner, Florian
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Nordstrom, E.M.
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Havlík, Petr
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Gusti, M.
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Mosnier, Aline
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Frank, S.
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Valin, Hugo
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Fritz, Steffen
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Fuss, S.
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Kindermann, Georg
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McCallum, Ian
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Khabarov, N.
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Böttcher, Hannes
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See, Linda
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Aoki, K.
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Schmid, Erwin
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Mathe, L.
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Obersteiner, Michael
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[Global bioenergy scenarios - future forest development, land-use implications, and trade-offs]
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Global bioenergy scenarios - future forest development, land-use implications, and trade-offs
Over the next decades mankind will demand more food from fewer land and water resources. This study quantifies the food production impacts of four alternative development scenarios from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the Special Report on Emission Scenarios. Partially and jointly conside...
Schneider, Uwe
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Havlík, Petr
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Schmid, Erwin
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Valin, Hugo
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Mosnier, Aline
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Obersteiner, Michael
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Böttcher, Hannes
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Skalský, Rastislav
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Balkovič, Juraj
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Sauer, Timm
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Fritz, Steffen
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[Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption]
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Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption
We investigate the impacts of the U.S. renewable fuel standard (RFS2) and several alternative biofuel policy designs on global GHG emissions from land use change and agriculture over the 2010-2030 horizon. Analysis of the scenarios relies on GLOBIOM, a global, multi-sectoral economic model based ...
Mosnier, Aline
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Havlík, Petr
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Valin, Hugo
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Baker, J.
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Murray, B.
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Feng, S.
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Obersteiner, Michael
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McCarl, B.A.
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Rose, S.K.
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Schneider, U.A.
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[Alternative U.S. biofuel mandates and global GHG emissions: The role of land use change, crop management and yield growth]
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Alternative U.S. biofuel mandates and global GHG emissions: The role of land use change, crop management and yield growth
Crop production is the single largest cause of human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle. We present a comprehensive assessment of global nitrogen flows in cropland for the year 2000 with a spatial resolution of 5 arc-minutes. We calculated a total nitrogen input (IN) of 136.60 trillion grams...
Liu, J.
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You, Liangzhi
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Amini, M.
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Obersteiner, Michael
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Zehnder, A.J.B.
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Yang, H.
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[A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland]
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A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland