Climate Change

Identifying potential synergies and trade-offs for meeting food security and climate change objectives in sub-Saharan Africa

Potential interactions between food production and climate mitigation are explored for two situations in sub-Saharan Africa, where deforestation and land degradation overlap with hunger and poverty.

Publication Date: 
15/11/2010
Cheryl A. Palm, Sean M. Smukler, Clare C. Sullivan & et al
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
107
46
19661
Tags:
Food Security, Agriculture, Climate Change, Agroforestry, Afforestation, Carbon Sequestration, Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx), Land Use, Africa, Maize, Nutrition, Poverty, Land Degradation, Agricultural Inputs, Chemical Fertilisers