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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 | |
relation.isSeriesOfPublication | 99147cd6-fa98-4a58-b3e7-81af3f4ffd98 |
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