Sentences with phrase «forest lands for agriculture»

Because of the clearing of pasture and forest lands for agriculture.

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.

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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Under Brazil's Forest Code, for example, landowners in the Amazon can only deforest 20 % of their land, while those in the Cerrado can only clear 35 % for agriculture.

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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 storland 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 storLand Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.

Searching for leverage to conserve forests: The industrial ecology of wood products in the U.S., Forests, land use, agriculture, wood products, fforests: The industrial ecology of wood products in the U.S., Forests, land use, agriculture, wood products, fForests, land use, agriculture, wood products, forestry

J For 98 (10): 8 - 14, 2000 The forester's lever: Industrial ecology and wood products, Forests, land use, agriculture, wood products, forestry

J Ind Ecol 1 (3): 125 - 145, 1997 Searching for leverage to conserve forests: The industrial ecology of wood products in the U.S., Forests, land use, agriculture, wood products, fforests: The industrial ecology of wood products in the U.S., Forests, land use, agriculture, wood products, fForests, land use, agriculture, wood products, forestry

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 lanFor 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 lanfor 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 laland 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 laLand 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.