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

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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. Three agriculture intensification scenarios for supplying nitrogen to increase crop production (mineral fertilizer, herbaceous legume cover crops

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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
Attachment(s): 
food security and climate change.pdf
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