Emission control’s neglected area

The impact of global warming on agriculture is complicated. Although an increase in global temperatures of up to 2.5 degrees Celsius could help increase total agricultural production by improving growing conditions in some parts of the world, many of what are today the world’s poorest countries would experience a worsening of growing conditions and food security.

Feast and famine as food prices soar

Getting microfinance to the farmers

Speculation about causes

With land-use activities contributing up to one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, the potential for emission reduction and carbon credit generating projects from agriculture is significant. Development of many potential projects, however, is being held back by technical problems and by their exclusion from the European Environmental Trading Scheme and the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, leaving only limited demand from the much smaller voluntary market.

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