CCAFS

In Southeast Asia, 25 percent of deforestation occurs in peat swamp forests and is driven by wood production and a demand for land for agricultural production. Techniques that facilitate deforestation, such as drainage ditches which lower the groundwater level, may affect peat methane emission fluxes. A study by Kristell Hergoualc’h and Louis Verchot at the […]

While much of the public attention to climate change focuses on carbon dioxide it is two other greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide and methane that comprise the largest part of agriculture’s contribution to climate change. In an article recently published in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, researchers compared GHG fluxes from five management regimes for winter wheat-summer […]

  Buckminster Fuller wryly commented that the earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual. As we come up against boundaries of our planet’s natural resources and capacity to absorb wastes, we urgently need to figure out what options will work best to manage competing uses for our global sources and […]

What’s a climate-smart landscape? ”Climate-smart landscapes operate on the principles of integrated landscape management, while explicitly incorporating adaptation and mitigation into their management objectives.” The concept of climate-smart landscapes covers what climate smart agriculture aims to achieve: Food security, improved livelihoods, low emissions development, resilience and recognition of ecosystems. Sara Scherr, President and CEO of […]

Message original par Mariana Rufino. Un exemple de la façon dont CCAFS et ses partenaires évoluent de la station de  recherche à l’action sur le terrain, tout en soutenant les communautés locales est “l’approche SAMPLES”. Analyste des systèmes Mariana Rufino a récemment discuté sur la façon dont ‘le Bilan standard du potentiel d’atténuation et les […]

Smallholder activities impact, and are impacted by, the constraints of their surroundings. Understanding these cross-scale interactions, between agriculture and the environment, could help generate a range of ecosystem services for which smallholders’ livelihoods depend. One key concern however is that there is no data on mitigation. The goal of the ‘Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods […]