Land restoration in food security programmes: synergies with climate change mitigation

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Woolf, Dominic Solomon, Dawit Lehmann, Johannes
Copyright Year	2018
Description	Journal: Climate Policy Food-insecure households in many countries depend on international aid to alleviate acute shocks and chronic shortages. Some food security programmes (including Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program–PSNP – which provides a case study for this article) have integrated aid in exchange for labour on public works to reduce long-term dependence by investing in the productive capacity and resilience of communities. Using this approach, Ethiopia has embarked upon an ambitious national programme of land restoration and sustainable land management. Although the intent was to reduce poverty, here we show that an unintended co-benefit is the climate-change mitigation from reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increased landscape carbon stocks. The article first shows that the total reduction in net GHG emissions from PSNP's land management at the national scale is estimated at 3.4 million Mg $CO_{2}$e $y^{−1}$ – approximately 1.5% of the emissions reductions in Ethiopia's Nationally Determined Contribution for the Paris Agreement. The article then explores some of the opportunities and constraints to scaling up of this impact. Key policy insights
Related Links	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14693062.2018.1427537?needAccess=true
Ending Page	1270
Page Count	11
Starting Page	1260
ISSN	14693062
e-ISSN	17527457
DOI	10.1080/14693062.2018.1427537
Journal	Climate Policy
Issue Number	10
Volume Number	18
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2018-01-26
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: Climate Policy Development Studies Climate Change Mitigation Food Security Carbon Sequestration Land Restoration Sustainable Land Management Climate-smart Agriculture
Content Type	Text
Subject	Atmospheric Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Global and Planetary Change