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Introduction to the Soil carbon sequestration in the Nationally Determined Contributions webinar by Wollenberg, Eva Karoline

“…The presentation was part of the Webinar on Soil carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions hosted by CCAFS, the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the 4 Per Mille Initiative and held on Earth Day, 22 April 2020.…”
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MRV of soil organic carbon: Where are we and what is missing? by Bernoux, Martial

“…The presentation was part of the Webinar on Soil carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions hosted by CCAFS, the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the 4 Per Mille Initiative and held on Earth Day, 22 April 2020.…”
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Soil carbon sequestration in the NDCs: Contributions from Brazil by Marzall, Katia

“…The presentation was part of the Webinar on Soil carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions hosted by CCAFS, the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the 4 Per Mille Initiative and held on Earth Day, 22 April 2020.…”
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Soil carbon in the Nationally Determinted Contributions: Analysis results by Wiese-Rozanova, Liesl D.

“…The presentation was part of the Webinar on Soil carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions hosted by CCAFS, the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the 4 Per Mille Initiative and held on Earth Day, 22 April 2020.…”
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Editorial: Tropical Montane Forests in a Changing Environment by Salinas, N., Cosio, E.G., Silman, M., Meir, P., Nottingham, A.T., Román Cuesta, Rosa María, Malhi, Y.

“…Tropical montane forests (TMFs) are found on most of Earth's continents along variable elevation ranges, whose potential upper limits are influenced by cloud condensation heights and minimum temperatures. …”
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Evaluating climate change scenarios in the White Volta Basin: a statistical bias-correction approach by Mensah, J. K., Akpoti, Komlavi, Antwi-Ofosu, E., Kabo-bah, A. T., Siabi, E. K., Asare, A., Bakuri, R. W., Yidana, S. M.

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Alternative energy sources for agricultural production and processing in Nigeria by Onyema, Mac-Anthony Chukwuka

“…Yet the agricultural sector in Nigeria has access to less than one percent of the total conventional energy supply in the country (EarthTrends 2003). This brief explores solutions to the rural area energy gap by reviewing the potential for conventional and alternative sources of energy for agricultural production and processing.…”
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Overcoming water scarcity and quality constraints: Domestic Water Supply, Hygine, and Sanitation by van Damme, Hans

“…The Earth was home to 6 billion people in 2000: 1.1 billion of them lacked safe water and 2.4 billion lacked adequate sanitation. …”
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Evaluating the effects of climate change on thermal bioclimatic indices in a tropical region using climate projections from the bias-corrected CMIP6 model by Kamruzzaman, Mohammad, Islam, H. M. Touhidul, Ahmed, Sharif, Bhattacharjya, Debu Kumar, Khan, Md. Shah Kamal, Mahmud, Golam Iftekhar, Almazroui, Mansour, Shahid, Shamsuddin

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Making climate information work for agricultural development by Hansen, James

“…Much of this attention is driven by the growing acceptance that human activity is altering the Earth’s climate, and that the major greenhouse gas emitters have an obligation to help the most vulnerable to adapt. …”
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Prof. R.P.K. Singh (SPARK), Suryabansh Singh and Sugreev Singh (Farmers)- Rambad, Bihar, India by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…But as the village elders themselves say:"agriculture is our tradition and the earth is our mother: we can't leave it". However, agriculture has become a more unpredictable activity for them, and the villagers can never be sure of what will come increasing food insecurity.…”
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International Agricultural Research Group Meets to Discuss Intellectual Property Rights and Plant Genetic Resources by CGIAR Secretariat

“…Another item high on the agenda is the CGIAR Action Plan to follow up on UNCED, the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.…”
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La importancia de los árboles: Rendición de cuentas sobre las contribuciones de los sistemas silvopastoriles a los inventarios nacionales de GEI by Suber, Marta, Arango, Jacobo, Torres, Carlos Felipe, Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…Existen herramientas para la generación de información de excelente calidad y a bajo costo, como Collect Earth Online, que se encuentran fácilmente disponibles. …”
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Surface water area dynamics of the major lakes of Ethiopia (1985–2023): A spatio-temporal analysis by Getaneh, Yonas, Abera, Wuletawu, Abegaz, Assefa, Tamene, Lulseged D.

“…We extracted the time-series water surface area of the lakes from Landsat images in the Google Earth Engine (GEE), using the Modified Normalized Water Index (MNDWI) and machine learning (Random Forest) methods. …”
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Decentralising Zimbabwe’s water management: The case of Guyu-Che- lesa irrigation scheme by Tambudzai, Rashirayi, Everisto, Mapedza, Gideon, Zhou

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Ash resuspension related to the 2011–2012 Cordón Caulle eruption, Chile, in a rural community of Patagonia, Argentina by Forte, Pablo, Dominguez, Lucia, Bonadonna, Constanza, Gregg, Chris E., Bran, Donaldo Eduardo, Bird, Deanne, Castro, Jonathan M.

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Soil carbon sequestration in the NDCs: Contributions from Japan by Nagano, Akiko

“…The presentation was part of the Webinar on Soil carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions hosted by CCAFS, the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the 4 Per Mille Initiative and held on Earth Day, 22 April 2020.…”
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Monitoring the trophic state of shallow urban lakes using Landsat 8/OLI data: a case study of lakes in Hanoi (Vietnam) by Vinh, Pham Quang, Ha, Nguyen Thi Thu, Thao, Nguyen Thien Phuong, Linh, Nguyen Thuy, Oanh, La Thi, Luong, Phuong Thi, Huyen, Nguyen Thi Thu

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Nexus thinking needed to implement COP15 biodiversity targets by DeClerck, Fabrice A.J., Navarrete Frias, Carolina

“…In December 2022, over 190 nations gathered in Montreal, Canada to finalize the Global Biodiversity Framework, an ambitious plan to save the Earth’s biodiversity. The United Nations Global Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, concluded with 23 ambitious targets ranging from land restoration and conservation to promoting sustainable consumption.…”
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Mapping Nepal’s agrarian transition by Sugden, Fraser, Dhakal, Suresh, Rai, Janak

“…Fraser Sugden (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Senior Lecturer in Human Geography International Lead-Research, University of Birmingham), Dr. …”
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