Analyzing the greenhouse gas impact potential of smallholder development actions across a global food security program

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Grewer, Uwe, Nash, Julie, Gurwick, Noel, Bockel, Louis, Galford, Gillian, Richards, Meryl, Junior, Ciniro Costa, White, Julianna, Galford, Gillian and Wollenberg, Eva. 2018. "Analyzing the greenhouse gas impact potential of smallholder development actions across a global food security program." Environmental Research Letters. 13 (4). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab0b0
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Analyzing the greenhouse gas impact potential of smallholder development actions across a global food security program

ERA Journal ID36365
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsGrewer, Uwe, Nash, Julie, Gurwick, Noel, Bockel, Louis, Galford, Gillian, Richards, Meryl, Junior, Ciniro Costa, White, Julianna, Galford, Gillian and Wollenberg, Eva
Journal TitleEnvironmental Research Letters
Journal Citation13 (4)
Number of Pages13
Year2018
PublisherIOP Publishing
Place of PublicationUnited Kingdom
ISSN1748-9326
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab0b0
Web Address (URL)https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aab0b0
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This article analyses the greenhouse gas (GHG) impact potential of improved management practices and technologies for smallholder agriculture promoted under a global food security development program. Under 'business-as-usual' development, global studies on the future of agriculture to 2050 project considerable increases in total food production and cultivated area. Conventional cropland intensification and conversion of natural vegetation typically result in increased GHG emissions and loss of carbon stocks. There is a strong need to understand the potential greenhouse gas impacts of agricultural development programs intended to achieve large-scale change, and to identify pathways of smallholder agricultural development that can achieve food security and agricultural production growth without drastic increases in GHG emissions.

Keywordslow emission agriculture; climate change mitigation; greenhouse gases; emission intensity; smallholder agriculture
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ANZSRC Field of Research 2020410199. Climate change impacts and adaptation not elsewhere classified
Byline AffiliationsFood and Agriculture Organization, Italy
University of Vermont, United States
Agriculture and Food Security, United States
United States Agency for International Development, United States
Institute of Forestry and Agriculture Management and Certification, Brazil
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