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April 25 2012
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ITC Technical Paper: Product Carbon Footprinting Standards in the Agri-food Sector

The International Trade Centre (ITC) has published a new technical paper on Product Carbon Footprinting Standards in the Agri-Food Sector. The paper aims to guide exporters of agricultural products through the process of product carbon footprinting (...

April 25 2012
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FAO-EC to promote climate smart farming

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the European Commission have announced a €5.3 million  three-year project to promote “climate-smart” approaches to agriculture. The goal of “climate-smart” agriculture is that it “sustainably...

April 13 2012
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Presentation: Scenarios of improved agriculture efficiencies and diet modification consistent with representative concentration pathways (RCPs) of nitrous oxide

This is an interesting presentation, given by Eric Davidson of Woods Hole Research Center, at the recent Planet under Pressure conference in March 2012.  The presentation is a summary of a paper he has forthcoming in Environmental Research...

January 24 2012
Paper: What next for agriculture after Durban?

Beddington J R, Asaduzzaman M, Clark M E, Fernández Bremauntz A, Guillou M D, Howlett D J B, Jahn M M, Lin E, Mamo T, Negra C, Nobre C A, Scholes R J, van Bo N and Wakhungu J (2012). What Next for Agriculture After Durban? Science, 335 289-290

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January 24 2012
Paper on the effects of resource efficiency on GHG emissions

This paper looks at both production and consumption side resource efficiency measures focusing on a range of measures as summarised in this table:

Reference and abstract as follows:

Barrett J and Scott K (2012). Link between climate...

January 24 2012
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Paper: Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security

This study finds that measures to tackle methane and black carbon emissions could reduce global warming by about 0.5°C by 2050.  It would also lower the burden of premature deaths and increase crop yields.  Reference and abstract as follows...

November 28 2011
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Agriculture and Climate Change

In June 2011, the Meridian Institute published a scoping report which provided an analysis of the complex issues relating...

March 16 2011
Europe - EU biofuel target "not achievable"

The European Union has set itself the target of meeting 10 per cent of road transport fuel needs from biofuel - fuel produced from biomass - by 2020.

March 16 2011
Agro-ecology and the right to food

Olivier de Schutter, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, presented his new report, "Agro-ecology and the right to food", before the UN Human Rights Council.

March 16 2011
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Feasibility of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Methods

A recent Defra funded project conducted by ADAS investigated the economic feasibility of farm greenhouse gas mitigation methods (GHG MMs) and identified drivers and barriers to uptake for 6 farm types and 3 farm sizes through a farm survey in the...