Carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems

Climate Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 367-377

  Pandey, Deep Narayan ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Carbon sink; Climate change mitigation; Equity of knowledge; Ethnoforestry; Secondary environmental benefits

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; EMISSION CONTROL; FOREST MANAGEMENT; KYOTO PROTOCOL;

EID: 0036939336     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1469-3062(02)00025-6     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Andersson, K., Richards, K.R., 2001. Implementing an international carbon sequestration program: can the leaky sink be fixed? Climate Policy 1, 173-188.
2. CAST, 1999. Benefits of Biodiversity. Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), USA.
3. Chisholm, S.W., Falkowski, P.G., Cullen, J.J., 2001. Dis-crediting ocean fertilization. Science 294, 309-310.
4. Costa, P.M., Stuart, M., Pinard, M., Phillips, G., 2000. Elements of a certification system for forestry-based carbon offset projects. Mitigation Adaptation Strategies Global Change 5, 39-50.
5. Costanza, R., et al., 1997. The value of world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387, 253-260.
6. Daily, G.C., Ehrlich, P.R., Sánchez-Azofeifa, G.A., 2001. Countryside biogeography: use of human-dominated habitats by the avifauna of southern Costa Rica. Ecol. Appl. 11, 1-13.
7. De Jong, B.H.J., Montoya-Gomez, G., Nelson, K., Soto-Pinto, L., Taylor, J., Tipper, R., 1995. Community forest management and carbon sequestration: a feasibility study from Chiapas, Mexico. Interciencia 20, 409-416.
8. De Jong, B.H.J., Tipper, R., Taylor, J., 1997. A framework for monitoring and evaluating carbon mitigation by farm forestry projects: example of a demonstration project in Chiapas, Mexico. Mitigation Adaptation Strategies Global Change 2, 231-246.
9. Dixon, R.K., 1995. Agroforestry systems: sources or sinks of greenhouse gases? Agroforestry Syst. 31 (2), 99-116.
10. Dixon, R.K.,Winjum, J.K., Schroeder, P.E., 1993. Conservation and sequestration of carbon: the potential of forest and agroforest management practices. Global Environmental Change 3, 159-173.
11. Dixon, R.K.,Wimjum, J.K., Lee, J.J., Schroeder, P.E., 1994. Integrated systems: assessing of promising agroforest and alternative land use practices to enhance carbon conservation and sequestration. Climate Change 30, 1-23.
12. Duguma, B., Cockowski, J., Bakala, J., 2001. Smallholder cacao (Theobroma cacao Linn.) cultivation in agroforestry systems of west and central Africa: challenges and opportunities. Agroforestry Syst. 51, 177-188.
13. Fang, J., Chen, A., Peng, C., Zhao, S., Ci, L., 2001. Changes in forest biomass carbon storage in China between 1949 and 1998. Science 292, 2320-2322.
14. FAO, 1997. State of the World's Forests. Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Rome, Italy.
15. Frost, B.W., 1996. Phytoplankton bloom on iron rations. Nature 383, 475-476.
16. Fung, I., 2000. Variable carbon sinks. Science 290, 1313-1314.
17. GOI, 1999. National Forestry Action Programme, Vols. 1/2. Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, New Delhi (Summary).
18. Hale, M.L., Lurz, P.W.W., Shirley, M.D.F., Rushton, S., Fuller, R.M., Wolff, K., 2001. Impact of landscape management on the genetic structure of Red Squirrel populations. Science 293, 2246-2248.
19. Hall, D.O., Mynick, H., Williams, R., 1991. Cooling the greenhouse with bioenergy. Nature 353, 11-12.
20. Harvey, C.A., Haber,W.A., 1999. Remnant trees and the conservation of biodiversity in Costa Rican pastures. Agroforestry Syst. 44, 37-68.
21. Houghton, R.A., Unruh, J.D., Lefebvre, P.A., 1993. Current land cover in the tropics and its potential for sequestering carbon. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 7, 305-320.
22. Huxley, P., 1999. Tropical Agroforestry. Blackwell Scientific Publications, London, United Kingdom.
23. Killmann, W., 2001. Forestry and Climate Change after CoP6. FAO Advisory Committee on Paper and Wood Products, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Rome, Italy.
24. Kolchugina, T.P., Vinson, T.S., 1996. Management options to conserve and sequester carbon in the agricultural sector of the former Soviet Union. Mitigation Adaptation Strategies Global Change 1 (2), 197-218.
25. Leakey, R.R.B., 1999. Agroforestry for biodiversity in farming systems. In: Collins,W.W., Qualset, C.O. (Eds.), Biodiversity in Agroecosystems. CRC Press, Washington, DC.
26. Leakey, R.R.B., Sanchez, P.A., 1997. How many people use agroforestry products? Agroforestry Today 9 (3), 4-5.
27. Levasseur, V., Olivier, A., 2000. The farming system and traditional agroforestry systems in the Maya community of San Jose, Belize. Agroforestry Syst. 49 (3), 275-288.
28. Mathur, A.B., Pandey, D.N., 1994. Forestry for rural development. J. Soc. Ind. For. 32 (3), 9-12.
29. Mc Neely, J., Scherr, S.J., 2001. Common grounds common future: how ecoagriculture can help feed the world and save wild biodiversity. IUCN, Gand/Future Harvest, Washington, DC.
30. NAC, 2000.Working Trees for Carbon Cycle Balance/Agroforestry: Using Trees and Shrubs to Produce Social, Economic, and Conservation Benefits. Gary Kuhn, United States Department of Agriculture National Agroforestry Center, USDA NAC East Campus, UNL, Lincoln (http://www.unl.edu/nac).
31. Noble, I.R., Dirzo, R., 1997. Forests as human-dominated ecosystems. Science 277, 522-525.
32. Noble, I.R., Scholes, R.J., 2001. Sinks and the Kyoto Protocol. Climate Policy 1, 5-25.
33. Pacala, S.W., Hurtt, G.C., Baker, D., Peylin, P., Houghton, R.A., Birdsey, R.A., Heath, L., Sundquist, E.T., Stallard, R.F., Ciais, P., Moorcroft, P., Caspersen, J.P., Shevliakova, E., Moore, B., Kohlmaier, G., Holland, E., Gloor, M., Harmon, M.E., Fan, S.M., Sarmiento, J.L., Goodale, C.L., Schimel, D., Field, C.B., 2001. Consistent land- and atmosphere-based US carbon sink estimates. Science 292, 2316-2320.
34. Pandey, D.N., 1991. Food selection by the Spangled Drongo Dicrurus hottentottus L. and choice of species for afforestation. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 88, 284-285.
35. Pandey, D.N., 1993. Wildlife, national parks and people. Indian Forester 119, 521-529.
36. Pandey, D.N., 1996. Beyond Vanishing Woods: Participatory Survival Options for Wildlife, Forests and People, 2nd Edition. Himanshu/CSD, New Delhi, p. 222.
37. Pandey, D.N., 1998. Ethnoforestry: Local Knowledge for Sustainable Forestry and Livelihood Security. Himanshu/AFN, New Delhi.
38. Pandey, D.N., 2001. A bountiful harvest of rainwater. Science 293, 1763.
39. Pandey, D.N., Mohan, D., 1993. Nest site selection by cavity nesting birds on Melia azedarach L. and management of multiple use forests. J. Bombay Nat. Hist Soc. 90, 58-61.
40. Prasad, R., Pandey, D.N., Kotwal, P.C., 2000. Trees Outside Forests in India: A National Assessment. Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, India.
41. Rai, S.N., Chakrabarti, S.K., 2001. Demand and supply of fuelwood and timber in India. Indian Forester 127, 263-279.
42. Ravindran, D.S., Thomas, T.H., 2000. Trees on farms, stores of wealth and rural livelihoods-insights and evidence from Karnataka, India. Int. Forestry Rev. 2, 182-190.
43. Ravindranath, N.H., Hall, D.O., 1995. Biomass, Energy and Environment: A Developing Country Perspective from India. Oxford University Press, New York, 376 pp.
44. Richards, K., Andersson, K., 2001. The leaky sink: persistent obstacles to a forest carbon sequestration program based on individual projects. Climate Policy 1, 41-54.
45. Sanchez, P.A., 2000. Linking climate change research with food security and poverty reduction in the tropics. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 82, 371-383.
46. Sathaye, J.A., Ravindranath, N.H., 1998. Climate change mitigation in the energy and forestry sectors of developing countries. Annu. Rev. Energy Environ. 23, 387-437.
47. Schlamadinger, B., Grubb, M., Azar, C., Bauen, A., Berndes, G., 2001. Carbon sinks and the CDM: could a bioenergy linkage offer a constructive compromise? Climate Policy 1, 411-417.
48. 2 injection on deep-sea biota. Science 294, 319-320.
49. Singh, T.P., Varalakshmi, V., Ahluwalia, S.K., 2000. Carbon sequestration through farm forestry: case from India. Indian Forester 126, 1257-1264.
50. Stinson, G., Freedman, B., 2001. Potential for carbon sequestration in Canadian forests and agroecosystems. Mitigation Adaptation Strategies Global Change 6 (1), 1-23.
51. Thies, C., Tscharntke, T., 2000. Landscape structure and biological control in agroecosystems. Science 285, 893-895.
52. Tilman, D., Fargione, J., Wolff, B., D'Antonio, C., Dobson, A., Howarth, R., Schindler, D., Schlesinger, W.H., Simberloff, D., Swackhamer, D., 2001. Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental change. Science 292, 281-284.
53. UNFCCC, 2001a. UNFCCC Decision 5/CP.6: Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (http://www.unfcc.int/cop62/documents/dec5cp6uneditedvers. pdf).
54. UNFCCC, 2001b. UNFCCC /CP/2001/L.11 Draft Decision CP.6 (http://www.unfccc.int/resource/docs/cop6secpart/l11.pdf).
55. Unruh, J.D., Houghton, R.A., Lefebvre, P.A., 1993. Carbon storage in agroforestry: an estimate for sub-Saharan Africa. Climate Res. 3, 39-52.
56. Watson, R.T., Noble, I.R., Bolin, B., Ravindranath, N.H., Verardo, J.D., Dokken, D.J., 2000. Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry, IPCC Special Report. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 388 pp. (http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/ land use/index.htm)
57. Wofsy, S.C., 2001. Where has all the carbon gone? Science 292, 2261-2263.
58. Yamagata, Y., Alexandrov, G.A., 2001. Would forestation alleviate the burden of emission reduction? An assessment of the future carbon sink from ARD activities. Climate Policy 1, 27-40.