Carbon footprints and carbon stocks reveal climate-friendly coffee production

Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 887-897

  van Rikxoort, Henk ^a   Schroth, Götz ^b   Läderach, Peter ^c   Rodríguez Sánchez, Beatriz ^d  

^a UTZ Certified   (Netherlands)

^b RAINFOREST ALLIANCE   (United States)

^c International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)   (Nicaragua)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Coffee agroforestry; Coffee ecosystem conservation; Cool Farm Tool software; Product carbon footprint; System carbon stocks

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COFFEE; CROP PRODUCTION; FOSSIL FUEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLYCULTURE; VULNERABILITY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COLUMBIA [MISSOURI]; LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919919247     PISSN: 17740746     EISSN: 17730155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13593-014-0223-8     Document Type: Article

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