The paper, written by Jaboury Ghazoul and Lian Pin Koh of ETH Zurich and myself in September 2009, posits that by increasing the opportunity cost of conversion of
forest land for agriculture, REDD will potentially constrain the amount of land available to meet growing demand for food.
Because of the clearing of pasture and
forest lands for agriculture.
Not exact matches
Whether it is the sprawl of deserts or the loss of tropical
forests as the world's poor cut trees
for firewood and clear
land for agriculture, or the ineluctable warming of the planet as vehicles and factories deposit millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, «economic pressures lie behind them all» (Tolba 1991, p. 10).
Coffee farms of various sizes ring the reserve, acting as a buffer
for the natural
forest and preventing the
land from being converted to row - crop
agriculture or ranches, which quickly degrade and erode the thin tropical
forest soil.
As a result of this, the countryside developed into predominantly dense
forest that was first cleared when humans began to use the
land for agriculture,» explains Professor Jens - Christian Svenning.
They also represent the main source of new
land for agriculture at the expense of
forests.
Land - use change and
agriculture are by far the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, as
forests and savannas are cut down
for cattle pastures and cropland.
In the article, «The Natural and Social History of the Indigenous
Lands and Protected Areas Corridor of the Xingu River Basin,» the authors cite original interviews with indigenous leaders who note significant changes in the
forest's rainfall patterns, river levels, fires and
agriculture cycles their groups have relied on
for thousands of years.
Setting Priorities: The transition to «climate smart»
land management practices, including
for example low - emissions
agriculture, agroforestry and the restoration of high carbon - value ecosystems, such as
forests and peatlands, will require sectoral coordination and investments in integrated
land use planning.
But when this
forest land is repurposed
for agriculture, logging, or mining, carbon is released into the atmosphere, where it contributes to climate change.
There were exhibitions on Agri - Map which was the decision - making support database
for agriculture land management, Royal Project on deteriorated soil rehabilitation, and the works in
forest and water resource management.
An outlook published in 2009 by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (/ / go.nature.com/DdNYvk) says that current cropland could be more than doubled by adding 1.6 billion hectares — mostly from Latin America and Africa — without impinging on
land needed
for forests, protected areas or urbanization.
The majority of these
land - use change emissions come from deforestation in developing countries, where
forests are being cleared
for agriculture and timber.
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for example, landowners in the Amazon can only deforest 20 % of their
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The report argues
for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with high mitigation potential as urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and
land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and stor
land use zoning, AFOLU (
Agriculture,
Forest and Other
Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and stor
Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.
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for leverage to conserve
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forests: The industrial ecology of wood products in the U.S.,
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land use,
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For 98 (10): 8 - 14, 2000 The forester's lever: Industrial ecology and wood products,
Forests,
land use,
agriculture, wood products, forestry
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Title II: Planning
For American Energy - Planning for American Energy Act of 2013 -(Sec. 2002) Amends the MLA to direct the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) with regard to lands administered by the Forest Service, to publish every four years a Quadrennial Federal Onshore Energy Production Strategy to direct federal land energy development and department resource allocation in order to promote the energy and national security of the United States in accordance with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mission to promote the multiple use of federal lan
For American Energy - Planning
for American Energy Act of 2013 -(Sec. 2002) Amends the MLA to direct the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) with regard to lands administered by the Forest Service, to publish every four years a Quadrennial Federal Onshore Energy Production Strategy to direct federal land energy development and department resource allocation in order to promote the energy and national security of the United States in accordance with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mission to promote the multiple use of federal lan
for American Energy Act of 2013 -(Sec. 2002) Amends the MLA to direct the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of
Agriculture (USDA) with regard to
lands administered by the
Forest Service, to publish every four years a Quadrennial Federal Onshore Energy Production Strategy to direct federal
land energy development and department resource allocation in order to promote the energy and national security of the United States in accordance with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mission to promote the multiple use of federal la
land energy development and department resource allocation in order to promote the energy and national security of the United States in accordance with the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) mission to promote the multiple use of federal la
Land Management (BLM) mission to promote the multiple use of federal
lands.
Jatropha curcas,
for instance, is a plant that grows well on marginal
lands and can also be used to restore degraded
lands, suggesting that Jatropha production, if carefully managed, may be expanded without directly competing with natural
forests or high - value
agriculture lands used
for food production.
«China falls short by not presenting a detailed framework on how to account
for forest emissions and sequestration, though it is transparent and specific on actions relating to
agriculture, forestry, and other
land use.»
«Comprehensive
forest protection policies may be a potential tool to promote
land - sparing in regions undergoing deforestation
for intensive
agriculture,» they write.
However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand
for wood products, expansion of industrial
agriculture, illegal and unplanned
forest conversion, conflicts over
land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect»
forests through «payment
for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.
Land and
forest fires are an annual occurrence throughout Indonesia, in large part to clear
forests for agriculture.
The main
land use item we followed was APA item 3 (c), which was also the hot topic among
land - focused civil society because of it's impact on how parties under the Paris Agreement account
for their emissions by sources (deforestation,
agriculture) and removals by sinks (
forests,
agriculture) from the
land sector in their NDCs.
But the good news
for tropical
forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over
land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign
land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm
agriculture in the Amazon.
Enviva responds that its operations are in reality protecting swamp
forests, because if they weren't harvested, the
land would be cleared and drained
for agriculture.
Forests, Farming, Deforestation Malaysia's Big Agroforestry Fail:
Land Converted to Rubber Plantations Still Classified as Protected
Forest Slash - and - Burn
Agriculture Isn't Great
for Southeast Asia's
Forests, But Monoculture Plantations are Even Worse Cattle Pastures in Deforested Amazon Now the Size of Iceland
So, to reply to your original observation: It may well happen that one station gets warmer and one a few kilometers away gets colder,
for example because the
land use around it changes (from
agriculture to growing
forests or similar, but often it's perhaps not even an obvious change).
Growing more
forests has value and can use
land not suitable
for agriculture, so is complementary.
A recent study led by Bronson Griscom, director of
forest carbon science at The Nature Conservancy, was key to convincing policymakers of the need to advance climate - smart initiatives
for the
land sector — including
forests, wetlands and especially
agriculture.