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TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate-smart land use requires local solutions, transdisciplinary research, policy coherence and transparency
AU - Carter, Sarah
AU - Arts, Bas
AU - E. Giller, Ken
AU - Soto Golcher, Cinthia
AU - Kok, Kasper
AU - de Koning, Jessica
AU - van Noordwijk, Meine
AU - Reisdma, Pytrik
AU - Rufino, Mariana C.
AU - Salvini, Giulia
AU - Verchot, Louis
AU - Wollenberg, Eva
AU - Herold, Martin
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Successfully meeting the mitigation and adaptation targets of the Paris Climate Agreement (PA) will depend on strengthening the ties between forests and agriculture. Climate-smart land use can be achieved by integrating climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and REDD+. The focus on agriculture for food security within a changing climate, and on forests for climate change mitigation and adaptation, can be achieved simultaneously with a transformational change in the land-use sector. Striving for both independently will lead to competition for land, inefficiencies in monitoring and conflicting agendas. Practical solutions exist for specific contexts that can lead to increased agricultural output and forest protection. Landscape-level emissions accounting can be used to identify these practices. Transdisciplinary research agendas can identify and prioritize solutions and targets for integrated mitigation and adaptation interventions. Policy coherence must be achieved at a number of levels, from international to local, to avoid conflicting incentives. Transparency must lastly be integrated, through collaborative design of projects, and open data and methods. Climate-smart land use requires all these elements, and will increase the likelihood of successful REDD+ and CSA interventions. This will support the PA as well as other initiatives as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.
AB - Successfully meeting the mitigation and adaptation targets of the Paris Climate Agreement (PA) will depend on strengthening the ties between forests and agriculture. Climate-smart land use can be achieved by integrating climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and REDD+. The focus on agriculture for food security within a changing climate, and on forests for climate change mitigation and adaptation, can be achieved simultaneously with a transformational change in the land-use sector. Striving for both independently will lead to competition for land, inefficiencies in monitoring and conflicting agendas. Practical solutions exist for specific contexts that can lead to increased agricultural output and forest protection. Landscape-level emissions accounting can be used to identify these practices. Transdisciplinary research agendas can identify and prioritize solutions and targets for integrated mitigation and adaptation interventions. Policy coherence must be achieved at a number of levels, from international to local, to avoid conflicting incentives. Transparency must lastly be integrated, through collaborative design of projects, and open data and methods. Climate-smart land use requires all these elements, and will increase the likelihood of successful REDD+ and CSA interventions. This will support the PA as well as other initiatives as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.
KW - Climate policy
KW - climate-smart agriculture
KW - deforestation
KW - food security
KW - REDD+
U2 - 10.1080/17583004.2018.1457907
DO - 10.1080/17583004.2018.1457907
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85046406863
VL - 9
SP - 291
EP - 301
JO - Carbon Management
JF - Carbon Management
SN - 1758-3004
IS - 3
ER -