Deforestation and agriculture in the tropics: carbon emissions and options for mitigation

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cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.crpForests, Trees and Agroforestry
cg.coverage.countryPanama
cg.coverage.countryParaguay
cg.coverage.countryEcuador
cg.coverage.countryMexico
cg.coverage.countryMalaysia
cg.coverage.countryPeru
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PA
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PY
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2EC
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MX
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MY
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PE
cg.coverage.regionCentral America
cg.coverage.regionSouth America
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.18174/428320en
cg.subject.ciforCLIMATE CHANGEen
cg.subject.ciforCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND REDD+en
dc.contributor.authorCarter, S.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-08T08:15:16Zen
dc.date.available2021-03-08T08:15:16Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/111926
dc.titleDeforestation and agriculture in the tropics: carbon emissions and options for mitigationen
dcterms.abstractAgriculture is the largest driver of deforestation globally, and this conversion of land from forests to agriculture, results in emissions which are contributing to climate change. This thesis focuses on exploring agriculture-driven deforestation at the country level, from the perspective of quantifying emissions, estimating the potential for mitigation, including identifying potential barriers to success, and highlighting enabling conditions for mitigation of these emissions. Efforts to reduce deforestation are being undertaken, for example through the mechanism REDD+; reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries. At the same time, efforts are underway to try to reduce hunger by increasing food security (for example through the sustainable development goals (SDGs)). Competition for land can result when both these goals are pursued at the same time, because forested land is protected for carbon storage, while agricultural land is expanded (often into forests) to provide sufficient land for growing food. There are several ways in which both goals, forest protection and food security might be achieved together, and we focus on assessing the potential of two approaches which can potentially spare forested land. These approaches are: increasing production on existing agricultural land, and expanding agriculture onto non-forested available land. Emerging phenomena such as Large Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLA, otherwise known as land grabs) add to the complexity of the challenge, and we discuss the potential threat which LSLA has on forested land, and how to avoid LSLA for agriculture in forested land. A transformational change of the land sector is proposed to ensure that both goals can be met. Several ingredients are required to achieve a transformational change, and linking REDD+ to Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) approaches is discussed. CSA interventions are those which are able to reduce emissions or store carbon while increasing the adaptive capacity of agriculture to climate change and increasing food production.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCarter, S. 2018. Deforestation and agriculture in the tropics: carbon emissions and options for mitigation. Wageningen, Netherlands: Wageningen University. https://doi.org/10.18174/428320en
dcterms.issued2018-11-30
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherWageningen University & Researchen
dcterms.subjectdeforestationen
dcterms.subjectdegradationen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjecttropical forestsen
dcterms.subjectcarbonen
dcterms.subjectemissionen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectmitigationen
dcterms.typeThesis

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