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Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils
World Bank, 2012The purpose of this report is to improve the knowledge base for facilitating investments in land management technologies that sequester soil organic carbon. While there are many studies on soil carbon sequestration, there is no single unifying volume that synthesizes knowledge on the impact of different land management practices on soil carbon sequestration rates across the world. A meta-analysis was carried out to provide soil carbon sequestration rates in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is one important element in decision-making for sustainable agricultural intensification, agro-ecosy ...
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Published by: World Bank ; 2012
The purpose of this report is to improve the knowledge base for facilitating investments in land management technologies that sequester soil organic carbon. While there are many studies on soil carbon sequestration, there is no single unifying volume that synthesizes knowledge on the impact of different land management practices on soil carbon sequestration rates across the world. A meta-analysis was carried out to provide soil carbon sequestration rates in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This is one important element in decision-making for sustainable agricultural intensification, agro-ecosystems resilience, and comprehensive assessments of greenhouse mitigation potentials of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices. Furthermore, the ecosystem simulation modeling technique was used to predict future carbon storage in global cropland soils. Last, marginal abatement cost curves and trade-off graphs were used to assess the cost-effectiveness of the technologies in carbon sequestration. The remainder of the report is organized as follows. Chapter two provides a brief review of soil organic carbon dynamics and the methods for soil carbon assessment. The chapter concludes with brief information on carbon assessment in The World Bank's sustainable land management projects portfolio. Chapter three reports the increase in soil carbon for selected sustainable land management practices in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Chapter four reports the estimates from ecosystem simulation, while chapter five concludes with the benefits and costs of adopting carbon sequestering practices and a discussion of policy options to support climate smart agriculture in developing countries. The report will provide a broad perspective to natural resource managers and other professionals involved in scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA).
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Environment and landscape ; Agroclimatology ; Soils ; Carbon dioxide (CO2) ; Afforestation ; Soil-atmosphere interaction
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No.10 - November 2010
is an issue of iLEAPS Newsletter. iLEAPS, 2011The latest iLEAPS Newsletter No. 10 deals with "Terrestrial feedbacks and Earth system models".
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The latest iLEAPS Newsletter No. 10 deals with "Terrestrial feedbacks and Earth system models".
Notes: EDITORIAL
Terrestrial feedbacks and Earth system models 4
SCIENCE
- Biogeophysical processes behind the climatic influence of deforestation 6
- Global warming or cooling from historical land–cover change? 10
- Recent and future advances in Dynamic Vegetation Modelling 14
- Global process–based fire modelling 18
- Elevated tropical nitrogen deposition: soil–atmosphere interaction 22
- A network of measuring stations to monitor climate change 26
ACTIVITIES
- ALANIS: a joint ESA-iLEAPS study over boreal Eurasia 28
IGBP second synthesis 34
- Land–use–induced land–cover changes and the Earth System 36
EARLY–CAREER SCIENTIST PAGE
- Early–career scientist interview 40
MEETINGS AND EVENTS
- Recent meetings 42
- Upcoming events
❏ 3rd iLEAPS international science conference 2011 9
❏ 3rd iLEAPS international science conference 2011 workshops 13
❏ International science conference 2012: Planet under pressure 43Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free) (ill.)Tags: Research ; Earth System Sciences ; Climate ; Climate change ; Deforestation ; Nitrous oxide (N2O) ; Soil-atmosphere interaction
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Published by: WMO ; 1997
Collection(s) and Series: WMO/TD- No. 785; Technical reports in hydrology and water resources- No. 56
Language(s): English
Format: Hard copyTags: Capacity development ; Evaporation ; Hydrology ; Soil-atmosphere interaction ; Commission for Hydrology (CHy) ; HWRP 56
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Project on estimation of areal evapotranspiration: (final report of the Technical Meeting on estimation of areal evapotranspiration)
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Published by: WMO ; 1992
Collection(s) and Series: WMO/TD- No. 464; Technical report to the Commission for Hydrology- No. 32
Language(s): English
Format: Hard copyTags: Capacity development ; Evaporation ; Soil-atmosphere interaction ; Hydrology ; Manual ; Commission for Hydrology (CHy) ; HWRP 32
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