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
This document provides a detailed framework for a standardized baseline in rice cultivation in the agriculture section in the Republic of the Philippines. It outlines the scope, applicability, validity of this standardized baseline, and the values for parameters criterion.
UNFCCC
2018
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Bonn, Germany.
This report identifies the current commitments, gaps, and opportunities for enhancing GHG mitigation and adaptation in the agriculture sector (crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries, and aquaculture).
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
2017
Environment and natural resources management Working Paper 67; FAO: Rome, Italy
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
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
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
This open-source book provides best-practice guidance on MRV in smallholder agriculture, including methodologies for measuring methane emissions from ruminants. It delves into designing a measurement program, data acquisition, and identifying mitigation options. It is has a solution-oriented structure, having leading experts in the field provide clear guidelines on how to deal with the issues raised in the book.
Rosenstock TS, Rufino MC, Butterbach-Bahl K, Wollenberg L, Richards M [Eds.]
2016
Springer Open
This manual provides guidance for using the Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for MRV. The manual presents the rationale of the tool and discusses the logic behind it and introduces more technical aspects of the methodology, data collection, and entry. It is intended for use by National Development Banks in conducting monitoring and evaluation of mitigation and adaptation impacts of their projects.
Bockel L, Vian L, Torre C
2018
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Rome, Italy
Guidelines are formally mandated for use in preparing national GHG inventories under the UNFCCC. The 2006 guidelines updated 1996 guidelines. The 2006 guidelines consist of two volumes, worksheets for developing an inventory, and a software tool.
- Volume 1 contains general guidance, including regarding how to deal with uncertainties (Chapter 3), the choice of methods (Chapter 4), and QA/QC (Chapter 6):
- Chapter 4 provides guidance on whether or not to include an emissions source (e.g., a livestock category for which Tier 1 and 2 methods have not been developed but may or may not be a significant source)
- Volume 4 Chapter 10 addresses emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use. For livestock, it presents updated Tier 1 and 2 methods while also presenting the possibility that a country develop a national-level approach (Tier 3 method) for livestock species of significance and/or that are not already covered by Tier 1 and 2 methods (e.g., alpacas, enteric fermentation from poultry).
- References (e.g. to the NRC nutrient requirements texts) are updated to reflect the availability of new research and data.
- Characterization of regions (and corresponding emission factors) are updated to reflect development, e.g. higher milk yields in North America
- Additional categories of livestock are included, e.g. reindeer, deer, and mink are included in Tier 1 manure management
- Opportunities for improving on Tier 2 methods are highlighted.
- Worksheets are provided to facilitate development of an inventory
- Updated versions of the inventory software can be found here.
The website provides whole site translation is several languages.
IPCC
2006
Prepared by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Program
This CCAFS webpage provides data and maps (available for download) and a review of agriculture’s role in the INDCs. The analysis and data are meant to inform national planning of mitigation and adaptation strategies. This website includes information about: agriculture in INDC mitigation targets, agriculture in INDC adaptation priorities, sub-sector targets, livestock systems in the INDCs, cropping systems in the INDCs, agroforestry in the INDCs, gender in the INDCs, and methodology.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security
2016
