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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Opportunities in Agricultural Landscapes : A Practitioner's Guide to Agricultural and Land Resources Management

Braimoh, Ademola K. - 2016

Agriculture, and the patterns of land-use change that are associated with it, have a significant ecological footprint … globally. Yet agriculture is also the only economic sector in which opportunities are present to mitigate climate change … increasing productivity and employing agriculture as an instrument for economic development. The report highlights the pattern of …

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Greenhouse Gas Accounting for Sustainable Land Management : Quick Guidance for Users

Toudert, Anass - 2018

Agriculture, and the patterns of land use change that are associated with it, have a high environmental footprint and … measure, which is why quantifying greenhouse gas emissions is a necessary step for climate-smart agriculture and sustainable …

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Lesotho Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plan : Opportunities for Transitioning to More Productive, Climate-Resilient, and Low Carbon Agriculture

World Bank Group - 2019

Bank to integrate climate change into the country's agriculture policy agenda through the Lesotho Climate-Smart Agriculture …

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The globalization of farmland : theory and empirical evidence

Arezki, Rabah; Bogmans, Christian; Selod, Harris - 2018

This paper is the first to provide both theoretical and empirical evidence of farmland globalization whereby international investors directly acquire large tracts of agricultural land in other countries. A theoretical framework explains the geography of farmland acquisitions as a function of...

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Using Administrative Data to Assess the Impact and Sustainability of Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization

Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2016

Rwanda's completion, in 2012/13, of a land tenure regularization program covering the entire country allows the use of administrative data to describe initial performance and combine the data with household surveys to quantify to what extent and why subsequent transfers remain informal, and how...

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Assessing Effects of Large-Scale Land Transfers : Challenges and Opportunities in Malawi's Estate Sector

Deininger, Klaus - 2017

This study uses data from the complete computerization of agricultural leases in Malawi, a georeferenced farm survey, and satellite imagery to document the opportunities and challenges of land-based investment in novel ways. Although 1.5 million hectares, or 25 percent, of Malawi's agricultural...

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Carbon Accounting Tools for Sustainable Land Management

Toudert, Anass - 2018

Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is unique among economic sectors because its mitigation … agriculture, forestry, and bioenergy. Mitigation options in the AFOLU sector, therefore, need to be assessed, as far as possible …

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Climate Change, Groundwater Salinization and Road Maintenance Costs in Coastal Bangladesh

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2014

The potentially-adverse impact of salinity on paved roads is well-established in the engineering literature. The problem seems destined to grow, as climate-related changes in sea level and riverine flows drive future increases in groundwater sal

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Sustainable Land Management for Mitigation of and Adaptation to Climate Change

World Bank - 2010

The climate change (CC) caused by increase in atmospheric concentration of CO2 and other Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), can be addressed through adaptation and mitigation strategies. Adaptation consists of strategies which minimize vulnerability to CC. The objective is to increase resilience of the...

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Climate finance, carbon market mechanisms and finance “blending” as instruments to support NDC achievement under the Paris Agreement

Strand, Jon - 2019

This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...

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