Global climate policy impacts on livestock, land use, livelihoods, and food security.

ABSTRACT: Recent research has shed light on the cost-effective contribution that agriculture can make to global greenhouse gas abatement; however, the resulting impacts on agricultural production, producer livelihoods, and food security remain largely unexplored. This paper provides an integrated assessment of the linkages between land-based climate policies, development, and food security, with a particular emphasis on abatement opportunities and impacts in the livestock sector. Targeting Annex I countries and exempting non-Annex I countries from land-based carbon policies on equity or food security grounds may result in significant leakage rates for livestock production and agriculture as a whole. We find that such leakage can be eliminated by supplying forest carbon sequestration incentives to no

SUBMITTER: Golub AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3876243 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature