Land Use: Agriculture, Livestock & Forestry 2014
How can we scale-up sustainable landscape management to reduce GHG emissions while ensuring food, water, and energy security?
At present, agriculture, livestock and deforestation are responsible for 20-30% of global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) which contribute to global warming. Opportunities exist, however, for land uses to be capable of reducing or sequestering significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, as well as create more productive and resilient landscapes that increase food security, water availability and energy supply, and support growing incomes. This contest seeks proposals on sustainable best management practices that can be rapidly implemented and brought to scale in order to address the challenges of climate change. Click here for contest details
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Proposals
Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon? Time for a change, time for productive conservation with analog forestry!
Global 4C advocates a new source of global finance that can reward the bio-sequestration of carbon and the protection of biodiversity.
Red Tree Program: developing sustainable communities by growing productive ecosystems that deliver NTFPs and support carbon markets/SRIs
Reforestation as convergence of climate change mitigation and adaptation with socioeconomic well-being and ecological restoration.
Come help us transform illegal charcoal makers into solar powered park rangers in the Virunga National Park in the DR Congo.