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Which agroforestry options give the greatest soil and above ground carbon benefits in different world regions?

The objective of this study was to understand which agroforestry systems provide the greatest benefits, and what are the main factors influencing, soil and above ground carbon sequestration. Data was collected from a total of 86 published and peer reviewed studies on soil and above ground carbon sequestration for different agroforestry systems, climates and regions in the world.

Feliciano D, Dedo A, Hillier J, Nayak D

2018

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics

The Global Strategy is a comprehensive framework for improving the availability and use of agricultural and rural data, necessary for evidence-based decision making and for national MRV.  This Strategy is based on three pillars:

  1. The establishment of a minimum set of core data that countries will collect to meet current and emerging demands.
  2. The integration of agriculture into national statistical systems in order to satisfy the demands of policy makers and other users who rely on comparable data across locations and over time. The integration will be achieved by implementing a set of methodologies that includes the development of a master sample frame for agriculture, the implementation of an integrated survey framework, and with results available in a data management system.
  3. The foundation that will provide the sustainability of the agricultural statistics system through governance and statistical capacity building.

FAO, World Bank, UN Statistical Commission

2010

The Global Office of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS) is hosted by the FAO’s Statistics Division (ESS) in Rom

The Strategy was published by the World Bank, Washington D.C.

World Program on Agricultural Censuses

The FAO World Program for the Census of Agriculture (WCA) promotes the use of standard international concepts, definitions and methodology. Data collected provides a snapshot of the state of a country’s agricultural sector – from size of holdings, land tenure, land use, area harvested, irrigation, livestock, labour and other agricultural inputs. This information is vital in agricultural planning and policy-making, research and development and monitoring the impact of agriculture on the environment. Resources and information about the 10-year round program can be found on this United Nations FAO website. The website provides whole site translation is several languages.

FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Rome, Italy

The contribution of agriculture, forestry and other land use activities to global warming, 1990–2012

This study examines the contribution of the agriculture, forestry, and other land-use activities to anthropogenic emissions. Findings confirm that the share of emissions from these activities to the total anthropogenic total have declined over time. This paper looks at the emissions from subsectors between 1990 and 2012, analyzing trends and providing results to further inform the current climate policy debate on land use.

Tubiello F, Salvatore Mm Ferrara A, House J, Federici S, Rossi S, Biancalani R, Golec R, Jacobs H, Flammini A, Prosperi P, Cardenas-Galindo P, Schmidhuber J, Sanz Sanchez M, Srivastava N, Smith P

2015

Journal: Global Change Biology

Genetic mitigation strategies to tackle agricultural GHG emissions: the case for biological nitrification inhibition technology

This paper discusses the capability of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) to control soil-nitrifier activity and improve nitrogen-cycling in agricultural systems. Transformative biological technologies can help reduce GHG emissions and globally make farming nitrogen efficient and less harmful to the environment.

Subbarao G, Arango J, Masahiro K, Hooper A, Yoshihashi T, et al.

2017

Plant Science

The American Carbon Registry Validation and Verification Guideline

This document outlines the required validation and verification that GHG emission reduction projects must complete in order to be registered as serialized ERTs. However, the document does not describe verification of GHG inventories or for verification of projects using California Air Resources Board (ARB) compliance offset protocols. The link is a direct downloadable PDF, visit the American Carbon Registries webpage on Validation and Verification to find out more.

ACR (version 1.1)

2012

The American Carbon Registry (ACR): Winrock International, Little Rock, Arkansas. 

UNFCCC-CDM Project case studies

There are many example projects in the searchable project database; a majority of projects involve methane recovery from manure management systems or less frequent food processing facilities.

UNFCCC-CDM, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Bonn, Germany

Learning tool on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector

This learning tool report outlines the structure and rationale of the tool, examples of climate change impacts on agriculture, rationale for avoiding future global warming, GHG emissions and its relation to global warming, mitigation and adaptation synergies. It also provides guidance on developing AFOLU NAMAs, including MRV (Module 4).

FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Rome, Italy

2015

SAMPLES: Agricultural greenhouse gas emission factors database

The SAMPLES database hosts emission factors and associated metadata from GHG measurements in agricultural systems. The database contains site-specific emission factors and associated agroecological data from studies published in peer-reviewed journals.

CCAFS, CGIAR Research program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security: Wageningen, The Netherlands