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Crops and Carbon - Paying Farmers to Combat Climate Change (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,587
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Crops and Carbon - Paying Farmers to Combat Climate Change (Hardcover): Mike Robbins

Crops and Carbon - Paying Farmers to Combat Climate Change (Hardcover)

Mike Robbins

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Rich countries are paying poor countries to fight climate change on their behalf - and one way they are doing it is through carbon sinks. These are reservoirs of organic carbon tied up in plants and in the earth, rather than being in the atmosphere as greenhouse gases. This book looks critically at this mode of climate change mitigation. Can it work? Is it just? Will poorer countries benefit? The book considers the scientific, economic and ethical basis for this type of mitigation.

Previous attention has been focused mainly on reducing emissions from deforestation and land degradation (REDD), but this book is one of the first attempts to examine the potential for carbon sinks in agriculture in crop plants and the soil. In assessing this, the author examines exactly how north-south climate mitigation trading works, or does not, and what the pitfalls are. It highlights the complex relationship between agriculture, particularly different forms of farming systems, and the mitigation of climate change. The arguments are backed up by original research with farmers in Brazil to demonstrate the challenges and prospects which these proposals offer in terms of payments for environmental services from agriculture through carbon trading.

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Imprint: Earthscan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2011
First published: August 2011
Authors: Mike Robbins
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-84971-375-7
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Tropical agriculture: practice & techniques
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General
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LSN: 1-84971-375-8
Barcode: 9781849713757

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