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Assessing the Carbon Benefits of Improved Land Management Technologies

dc.contributor.author Braimoh, Ademola
dc.date.accessioned 2012-08-13T11:24:34Z
dc.date.available 2012-08-13T11:24:34Z
dc.date.issued 2012-01
dc.description.abstract Ensuring food security under changing climate conditions is one of the major challenges of our era. Agriculture must not only become increasingly productive, but must also adapt to climate change while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Soil carbon sequestration, the process by which atmospheric carbon dioxide is taken up by plants through photosynthesis and stored as carbon in biomass and soils, can support these goals. First, soil carbon enhances agricultural productivity, which reduces rural poverty; second, it limits greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere; and third, it reduces the impact of climate change on agricultural ecosystems. This smart lesson describes the potential benefits of selected land management technologies that sequester carbon. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16234269/assessing-carbon-benefits-improved-land-management-technologies
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10419
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries IFC Smart Lessons Brief
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subject AFFORESTATION
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL LAND
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject AGRICULTURE
dc.subject AGROFORESTRY
dc.subject AIR
dc.subject AIR QUALITY
dc.subject ATMOSPHERE
dc.subject ATMOSPHERIC CARBON
dc.subject ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE
dc.subject CARBON
dc.subject CARBON FINANCE
dc.subject CARBON IN BIOMASS
dc.subject CARBON SEQUESTRATION
dc.subject CARBON STORAGE
dc.subject CLIMATE
dc.subject CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subject CONSERVATION
dc.subject COTTON
dc.subject CROP
dc.subject CROP RESIDUES
dc.subject CROP ROTATION
dc.subject CROP YIELD
dc.subject CROP YIELD INCREASES
dc.subject CROP YIELDS
dc.subject CROPLAND
dc.subject CROPLANDS
dc.subject CROPS
dc.subject CULTIVATION
dc.subject DEFORESTATION
dc.subject DEGRADED FORESTS
dc.subject ECOSYSTEM
dc.subject EXTENSION
dc.subject EXTENSION SERVICES
dc.subject FARMERS
dc.subject FARMING
dc.subject FERTILIZER
dc.subject FERTILIZERS
dc.subject FLOODS
dc.subject FOOD INSECURITY
dc.subject FOOD PRODUCTION
dc.subject FOOD SECURITY
dc.subject FORESTS
dc.subject FOSSIL FUEL
dc.subject FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subject GRAIN
dc.subject GRAIN CROPS
dc.subject GREENHOUSE
dc.subject GREENHOUSE GAS
dc.subject GREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS
dc.subject GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
dc.subject GREENHOUSE GASES
dc.subject GROUNDNUT
dc.subject HARVESTING
dc.subject INCOMES
dc.subject INNOVATION
dc.subject INTERCROPPING
dc.subject LABOR COSTS
dc.subject LAND DEGRADATION
dc.subject LAND MANAGEMENT
dc.subject LAND TENURE
dc.subject LAND USE
dc.subject LIVESTOCK
dc.subject MAIZE
dc.subject MANURE
dc.subject METHANE
dc.subject METHANE EMISSIONS
dc.subject MILLET
dc.subject MULCH
dc.subject MULCHING
dc.subject NATURAL RESOURCES
dc.subject NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
dc.subject NITROGEN
dc.subject NITROGEN FERTILIZERS
dc.subject NITROUS OXIDE
dc.subject NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS
dc.subject NUTRIENTS
dc.subject ORGANIC CARBON
dc.subject ORGANIC MATTER
dc.subject PHOTOSYNTHESIS
dc.subject PRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subject PRODUCE
dc.subject PRODUCTION COSTS
dc.subject RAINWATER
dc.subject RURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject SEEDBED PREPARATION
dc.subject SEEDLINGS
dc.subject SEEDS
dc.subject SHRUBS
dc.subject SOIL CARBON
dc.subject SOIL FERTILITY
dc.subject SOILS
dc.subject SORGHUM
dc.subject TEMPERATURE
dc.subject TERRACING
dc.subject TILLAGE
dc.subject TREE PLANTATIONS
dc.subject TREES
dc.subject TROPICS
dc.subject VEGETABLE GARDENING
dc.subject WATER QUALITY
dc.title Assessing the Carbon Benefits of Improved Land Management Technologies en
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea Climate Change
okr.date.disclosure 2012-03-09
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Brief
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16234269/assessing-carbon-benefits-improved-land-management-technologies
okr.globalpractice Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice Agriculture
okr.globalpractice Environment and Natural Resources
okr.globalpractice Energy and Extractives
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000333038_20120420022123
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 16234269
okr.identifier.report 68189
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2012/04/20/000333038_20120420022123/Rendered/PDF/681890BRI00PUB0nagementTechnologies.pdf en
okr.topic Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems
okr.topic Rural Development Knowledge and Information Systems
okr.topic Environment :: Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
okr.topic Crops and Crop Management Systems
okr.topic Energy :: Energy and Environment
okr.topic Rural Development
okr.topic Agriculture
okr.unit Agriculture & Rural Dvmnt (ARD)
okr.volume 1 of 1
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