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Climate change and agriculture: can market governance mechanisms reduce...
Climate and agriculture are inextricably linked: the climate affects agricultural production and is itself affected by agricultural emissions. Agriculture is responsible for 30 per cent of global...
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The UNU-IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative seeks to build greater understanding and facilitate awareness of traditional knowledge (TK) to inform action by indigenous peoples, local communities and...
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African agriculture ‘Dirt Poor’ but will inorganic fertilizer make it rich? |...
The question is not, “should farmers use inorganic or organic fertilizer?” but rather, “How can farmers increase soil organic matter in a cost-effective way in order to recycle nutrients, increase...
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New study finds African carbon projects can help poor famers | CGIAR Climate
In a newly released report from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and EcoAgricultural Partners, researchers found that while direct carbon payments to...
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Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change
Smallholder farmers can contribute significantly to climate change mitigation but will need incentives to adapt their practices. - Incentives from selling carbon credits are limited by low returns to...
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Does erosion represent landscape-level loss or gain of carbon stocks? |...
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Survey Finds East African Farmers Are Adopting New Climate-Mitigation...
One of the biggest challenges faced by smallholder farmers today is climate change, and the increasingly variable weather patterns that result from it. While farmers in some tropical regions may...
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Trees on-farm: removing the obstacles to enterprise - A review of current...
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook
There has been a rapid uptake of the term Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) by the international community, national entities and local institutions, in the past years. However, implementing this...
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SHAMBA: Assessing Climate Change Mitigation in Agriculture in Malawi
By Nicholas Berry, Researcher in the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh This week marks the second week of the 38th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological...
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