Given the extent of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) initiatives at project, national, regional and global levels, there is increasing interest in tracking progress in implementing CSA at national level. CSA is also expected to contribute to higher-level goals (e.g., the Paris Agreement, Africa Un...
Nowak, Andreea C.
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Wilkes, Andreas
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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[Measurement and reporting of climate-smart agriculture: technical guidance for a countrycentric process]
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Measurement and reporting of climate-smart agriculture: technical guidance for a countrycentric process
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture now exceed emissions from land use, land use change and forestry, including deforestation, and are growing at a rate of about 1% per year (Tubiellio et al. 2015). The main livestock emission sources – enteric fermentation, manure management and manu...
Wilkes, Andreas
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[Measurement, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock: current practices and opportunities for improvement]
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Measurement, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock: current practices and opportunities for improvement
Given the projected increase in the demand for animal-source foods in developing countries,
trends in livestock GHG emissions and other environmental impacts, there is an urgent need
to change livestock production. Despite its significant role in global GHG emissions, the
livestock sector also ha...
Dijk, S. van
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Wilkes, Andreas
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[Climate-smart livestock sector development: the state of play in NAMA development]
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Climate-smart livestock sector development: the state of play in NAMA development
Grasslands cover about 40% of China's land area. This paper synthesizes 133 papers from China on the impacts of land use conversion and improved management practices on soil organic carbon (SOC) in China's grasslands. The synthesis finds that overgrazing and conversion of freely grazed grassland ...
Wang, Shiping
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Wilkes, Andreas
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Zhang, Zhicai
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Chang, Xiaofeng
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Lang, Rong
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Wang, Yanfen
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Niu, Haishan
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[Management and land use change effects on soil carbon in China s grasslands: a synthesis]
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Management and land use change effects on soil carbon in China s grasslands: a synthesis
A significant proportion of developing countries have expressed an interest in greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation in the agriculture sector. However, compared to mitigation planning in some other sectors, progress with developing agricultural mitigation plans and the allocation of climate finance to...
Wilkes, Andreas
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Solymosi K
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[National planning for GHG mitigation in agriculture: a guidance document]
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National planning for GHG mitigation in agriculture: a guidance document
Purpose and scope of the review: This review of national greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation planning
in the agriculture sector has two objectives: (i) to provide national policy makers and others in the
agriculture sector with an overview of national mitigation planning processes and aid then in i...
Wilkes, Andreas
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Solymosi K
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[National integrated mitigation planning in agriculture: a review paper]
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National integrated mitigation planning in agriculture: a review paper
This paper develops three scenarios for the management of an existing, low productivity, collective forest plot in Southwest China: continuation of the status quo, transition to sustainable forest management (SFM), and conversion to a short rotation species for producing biomass for electricity g...
Kahrl F
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Su Y
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Tennigkeit, Timm
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Wilkes, Andreas
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Xu, Jianchu
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Yan M
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[Incentives for carbon sequestration and energy production in low productivity collective forests in Southwest China]
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Incentives for carbon sequestration and energy production in low productivity collective forests in Southwest China
This report provides an overview of current practices, challenges and opportunities in the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of livestock greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and emission reductions by developing countries in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
This report is also available in:
French: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/93125
Spanish: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/93127
A summary brief is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/80890.
Wilkes, Andreas
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Reisinger, Andy
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Dijk, Suzanne van
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[Measurement, reporting and verification of livestock GHG emissions by developing countries in the UNFCCC: current practices and opportunities for improvement]
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Measurement, reporting and verification of livestock GHG emissions by developing countries in the UNFCCC: current practices and opportunities for improvement
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?
Climate-smart agriculture aims to improve food security by increasing productivity and producer incomes, strengthening resilience to climate change, and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For the livestock sector, improved genetics is often identified as a climate-smart option. While there ...
Wilkes, Andreas
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Barnes, Andrew P.
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Baival, Batkhishig
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Clare, Abbie
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Namkhainyam, Busjavin
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Tserenbandi
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Chuluunbaatar, Narantsogt
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Namkhainyam, Tsolmon
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[Is cross-breeding with indigenous sheep breeds an option for climate-smart agriculture?]
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Is cross-breeding with indigenous sheep breeds an option for climate-smart agriculture?