Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen

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dc.creatorNelson, Gerald C.
dc.date2009-05
dc.date2024-11-06T19:38:17Z
dc.date2024-11-06T19:38:17Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:41:11Z
dc.descriptionAgriculture and climate change are inextricably linked. Agriculture is part of the climate change problem, contributing about 13.5 percent of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (with forestry contributing an additional 19 percent), compared with 13.1 percent from transportation. Agriculture is, however, also part of the solution, offering promising opportunities for mitigating GHG emissions through carbon sequestration, soil and land use management, and biomass production. Climate change threatens agricultural production through higher and more variable temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and increased occurrences of extreme events such as droughts and floods. And if agriculture is not included, or not well included, in the international climate change negotiations leading up to the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December 2009, resulting climate change policies could threaten poor farming communities and smallholders in many developing countries. The policies could also impede the ability of smallholders to partake in new economic opportunities that might arise from the negotiations.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/159328
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/111695
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceNelson, Gerald C. 2009. Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen. 2020 Vision Focus 16. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159328
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectsciences
dc.subjectrice
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectland use
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.titleAgriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen
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