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The Role of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) April 2009
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Climate change and land degradation are major threats to the survival and livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Major new opportunities exist to help improve the livelihoods of African smallholder farmers, pastoralists and other resource users while mitigating emissions of greenhouse gases, reducing land degradation and addressing other environmental problems in the context of the current negotiations to develop a post-Kyoto climate change framework, and international, national and local efforts to promote sustainable land management (SLM) and conserve biodiversity. This paper seeks to help address these threats and achieve the potential of these opportunities by informing policy makers, development practitioners, and others concerned about these issues about the linkages between climate change and SLM, the opportunities and constraints to promoting climate change mitigation and adaptation through SLM, and the policy and institutional options to overcome the constraints and realize the opportunities that are now or are becoming available. This paper was prepared by researchers of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) – John Pender, Claudia Ringler, and Marilia Magalhaes - and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) - Frank Place - as part of the TerrAfrica work program, with the support of the World Bank. The research team was supported by a Special Advisory Group (SAG) that included representatives of African governments, the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the World Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the government of Norway, and Ecoagriculture Partners. The SAG provided valuable information and references that were used in the paper, as well as feedback on the outline and first draft of the paper. The authors also drew heavily upon the draft issues paper “Land Management and Climate Change” by Christophe Crepin, Steve Danyo and Frank Sperling of the World Bank. The authors are grateful to the World Bank for financial support of the research; to Christophe Crepin, Frank Sperling and Florence Richard for their leadership and guidance; and to the members of the SAG for providing valuable information, advice and feedback. In addition to the aforementioned, the following individuals provided specific comments on early draft versions of the paper: Elizabeth Bryan, Saveis Sadeghian, Alejandro Kilpatrick, Elsie Attafuah, Evariste Nicoletis, Francois Tapsoba, Kwame Awere, Paule Herodote, Simone Quatrini, Sven Walter and Sara Scherr.
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! focus on financing CDM and/or JI
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! nations have ratified (or adopted
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! vulnerability assessment, develop
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! The TerrAfrica partnership is pla
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! o increased use of voluntary carb
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! • increased integration of clim
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! allowances and offsets are within
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! greater financial resources than
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! activities (these challenges are
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! CER can be carried over to subseq
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! Applied research and knowledge ma
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! and TerrAfrica process to develop
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! Table 2-2. Projected mean tempera
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! Table 2-5. Severe environmental c
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! Table 3-2. Importance of Causes o
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! Practice Adaptation aspects Mitig
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! Table 4-1. Carbon markets, volume
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! Table 4-3. Summary of Progress du
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! Figure 2-3. Projected increases i
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! Figure 3-1. NDVI based estimates
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! Figure 3-3. Greenhouse gas emissi
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! Figure 4-2. Potential savings by
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! References ! Ambrosi, P. 2009. No
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! Dregne, H. and M. Kassas. 1991. A
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! Kruseman, G., Ruben, R. and G. Te
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! Sustainable Land Management in th
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! United States Government Accounta
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