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Title: Organic Farming and
Climate Change
Description:
Study focusing on organic
agriculture and mitigation and adaptation to predictable and unpredictable
impacts of climate change. The publication looks at the general contribution of
agriculture to climate change and discusses the considerable potential of
organic agriculture for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and its
contribution to sequestration of CO2 in the soil. It further outlines
weaknesses of organic agriculture in the context of climate change and
discusses the inclusion of organic agriculture in voluntary CO2 emissions
markets. At the end the paper includes bibliography and a list of useful links
(pp. 24-27)
Author(s):
Urs
Niggli, Heinz Schmid, Andreas Fliessbach
Publisher/Editor:
FiBL,
International Trade Center
(UNCTAD/WTO)
Year: 2007
Number
of Pages: 27
Language:
English
Format: Free PDF Click here to download
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