Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture without compromising food security?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Frank, Stefan ^a   Havlík, Petr ^a   Soussana, Jean François ^b   Levesque, Antoine ^a,c   Valin, Hugo ^a   Wollenberg, Eva ^d,e   Kleinwechter, Ulrich ^a   Fricko, Oliver ^a   Gusti, Mykola ^a,f   Herrero, Mario ^g   Smith, Pete ^h   Hasegawa, Tomoko ^a,i   Kraxner, Florian ^a   Obersteiner, Michael ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b Inra   (France)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Research Program on Climate Change   (Canada)

^e University of Vermont   (Canada)

^f LVIV POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

AFOLU; Climate change mitigation; Food security; Partial equilibrium model; Soil carbon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CLIMATE MODELS; COSTS; FOOD SUPPLY; FORESTRY; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; SOILS;

AFOLU; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; FOOD SECURITY; PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; SOIL CARBON;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; EQUILIBRIUM; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOIL CARBON;

BRAZIL; INDIA;

EID: 85032735674     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa8c83     Document Type: Article

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