Harvesting agriculture's multiple benefits: Mitigation, Adaptation, Development and Food Security

Harvesting agriculture's multiple benefits: Mitigation, Adaptation, Development and Food Security

Year of publication 2009

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Farming practices, which capture carbon and store it in agricultural soils, offer some of themost promising options for cost effective, early action on climate change in developingcountries. These practices are already available and can have multiple benefits for climatechange mitigation, adaptation, sustainable development and food security.To accelerate mitigation and adaptation action, climate financing mechanisms need totarget agriculture, reward synergistic action and leverage investment fo r up-scaling.Opportunities exist to build confidence, capacity, and commitment for early action onagricultural mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, while meeting developmentand food security requirements.

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