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PC 140/4 - Evaluación de la aplicación por la FAO de la Resolución 7/2019 de la Conferencia, titulada “Mayor integración de enfoques agrícolas sostenibles, incluida la agroecología, en las futuras actividades de planificación de la FAO”, incluido el equilibrio de la gama completa de enfoques y sistemas agrícolas sostenibles












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    Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Agriculture
    A Manual to Address Data Requirements for Developing Countries
    2015
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    Countries report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals from all sectors via national GHG Inventories, submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in accordance with international climate policy agreements and technical guidelines developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The agriculture sector represents a unique challenge for national inventory compilers, especially in developing countries, due to significant difficulties in compiling and regularly updating national statistics for agriculture, forestry and land use —the first necessary step in preparing national GHG estimates. This Manual provides Member Countries with a tool and methodology to help identify, build and access he minimum set of activity data needed for GHG estimation. Required data is largely drawn from country’s official national agricultural and forestry statistics, as disseminated in FAO’s corporate database FAOSTAT, and integrated by geo-spati al data obtained from recognized international sources. Users are provided with step-by-step guidance on how to use this minimum set to build a default, yet complete national GHG emission dataset for agriculture and land use, which follows the default, Tier 1 approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines on National GHG Inventories. This Manual therefore contributes to FAO and the Global Strategy support to national processes towards improved agricultural and rural statistics. It can be used as a guide by staff of national statistical offices, environmental ministries and other relevant national agencies, to understand the international context of international climate policy (Ch. 2) and international guidelines (Ch. 3), identify needs for improved agricultural and rural data as well as emission estimates towards improving GHG Inventories (Ch. 4), while supplying practical information and examples based on accessing and using the FAOSTAT Emissions database for agriculture and land use (Ch. 5).
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    AquaCrop training handbooks. Book I: Understanding AquaCrop. April 2017 2017
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    AquaCrop is a crop simulation model which describes the interactions between the plant and the soil. FAO developed AquaCrop to address food security and to assess the effect of environment and management on crop production . AquaCrop can be used as a planning tool or to assist in management decisions for both irrigated and rainfed agriculture. AquaCrop is particularly useful:
    • to understand the crop response to environmental changes (educational tool);
    • to compare attainable and actual yields in a field, farm, or a region;
    • to identify constraints limiting crop production and water productivity
    • as a benchmarking tool to develop strategies to maximise water productivity
    • to optimize crop and management practices;
    • to study the effect of climate change on food production over time
    • for policy and for planning purposes.