Agriculture, forestry, and other land-use emissions in Latin America

Globalization and Land-Use Transitions in Latin America

Current socioeconomic drivers of land-use change associated with globalization are producing two contrasting land-use trends in Latin America. Increasing global food demand (particularly in Southeast Asia) accelerates deforestation in areas suitable for modern agriculture (e.g., soybean), severely threatening ecosystems, such as Amazonian rain forests, dry forests, and subtropical grasslands. A...

Mapping Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals from the Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry Sector at the Local Level

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry sector (LULUCF) are estimated and reported in National Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). By definition, the LULUCF sector is a “greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory sector that covers emissions and removals of greenhouse gases resulting from direct human-induce...

Agriculture and the Macroeconomy in Latin America during the Nineties

After several decades of substantial state intervention in the economy, and an inward-oriented development strategy, several countries in the LAC region engaged in trade reform, market liberalization, and structural adjustment policies. The degree, extension, and deepness of reform efforts varied widely across countries however. We distinguish here a group of six countries, “the early reformers...

Ammonia Emissions from Agriculture and Other Sources

Annex 7.f Emissions from the land-use change and forestry sector

Land-use change accounted for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2000, making it the second largest source of emissions, after the power sector. These emissions arise from a change in the management of land by humans, such as conversion of forests to pasture land. The following sections will explain the role of the land, that is plants and soils, in the natural carbon cycle, and how chan...