Choosing Indicators for a "Climate-Friendly" Landscape
Criterion I4: The market provide incentives for climate-friendly landscapes. Producers need access to markets for products and services that return a profit as well as incentives to invest in sustaining ecosystem function and food security. Examples include market access for certified agricultural products and markets for ecosystem services and payment for ecosystem services. Optimum efforts [...]
Choosing Indicators for a "Climate-Friendly" Landscape
Criterion L5: Households and communities are resilient to external shocks derived from climate changing conditions (drought, flooding, disease and epidemics). Social resilience is the ability of human communities to withstand and recover from stresses, such as disturbances caused by global changes in climate. In agricultural landscapes, human and ecological systems interact. Resilience in such combined [...]
Choosing Indicators for a "Climate-Friendly" Landscape – System Resilience
Criterion P3: The production system is resilient to disturbances caused by climate change. The system maintains the natural capital that sustains production over time and makes it resilient to disturbances (drough, flood, mudslides and diseases) caused by climate change. Ecosystem resilience describes the capacity of an ecosystem to cope with disturbances caused by climate change. [...]
Choosing Indicators for a "Climate-Friendly" Landscape – Regulating Ecosystem Services
Criterion C4: The landscape provides locally, regionally, and globally important ecosystem services that contribute to the mitigation of climate change. The ecosystem services that a climate-friendly landscape is desired to perform are global climate regulation and local climate regulation. Both are regulating services, the regulation of the local climate also contributes to increase the resilience [...]
Selecting Criteria for "Climate-Friendly" Landscapes
Agricultural systems can contribute to climate change mitigation through the application of agricultural practices that enhance carbon storage in vegetation and soils, and reduce green house gas emissions derived from production, livestock, burning, and use of inorganic fertilizers (see Farming and Land Use to Cool the Planet, Chapter for the World Watch Report State of [...]
Agriculture, Forestry & Other Land Use
Emissions Trading (the "Carbon Market")
Forests provide economic, social and environmental benefits for local communities. Forests can also play an important role on the mitigation of the climate change. The biomass of trees and vegetation in forests holds vast reserves of carbon that help to keep in balance the carbon cycle on which life on Earth depends. Plants and trees [...]
"Climate-friendly" agricultural landscapes
An ecoagricultural landscape should ideally provide food and fiber to meet the needs of the community and respond to demand from external markets, protect biodiversity, enable local people to have viable livelihoods, and coordinate institutions to enable the other goals to be realized. In terms of climate change, ecoagricultural landscapes and farming systems can contribute [...]