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Tools for greenhouse gas assessments
A series of tools and databases to support countries in assessing GHG emissions and removals from the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector through useful tools.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website AFOLU Carbon Calculator
- Website Agriculture and Land Use national Greenhouse Gas Inventory software (ALU)
- Website Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Mitigation Option Tool
- Website Collect Earth
- Website Cool Farm Tool
- Website EPA. 2020. U.S. EPA Toolkit for Building National GHG Inventory Systems
- Website EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT)
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT) for value chains
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool for value chains
- PDF EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool | EX-ACT
- PDF Emissions due to agriculture: Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
- Website Emissions overview
- PDF Estimating GHG emissions and carbon sequestration in agriculture, forestry and other land use with EX-ACT
- PDF Ex-Ante Carbon balance Tool
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions - Agriculture
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions - Land use
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions intensities
- Website FAOSTAT Emissions shares
- Website GLEAM v 3.0 Dashboard
- Website Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)
- PDF Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM): Model description. version 3.0
- Website Global database of greenhouse gas emissions related to feed crops
- Website Global database of national greenhouse gas inventory capacity in developing countries
- Website IPCC 2020. IPCC Inventory Software
- Website Quality assurance/Quality control (QA/QC) and verification
- PDF The LoGIc tool for developing land representation for national greenhouse gas inventories
- PDF The LoGIc tool for developing land representation for national greenhouse gas inventories. The file input template
- PDF The LoGIc tool for developing land representation for national greenhouse gas inventories. The tool
- Website Using EX-ACT to estimate the mitigation potential of agricultural interventions
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Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture process and FAO’s role
This collection provides useful resources about the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture process under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and why it is important to FAO.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF A preliminary review of agriculture-related activities in the Green Climate Fund portfolio
- PDF State of the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture
- PDF Understanding the future of Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture
- PDF Agreed conclusions on the six topics of the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture roadmap
- Video FAO and the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture
- Video How is agriculture different from other sectors when it comes to climate change?
- Video Implementing the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture
- Video Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture explained
- Video Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture: views from agriculture experts
- Video Koronivia and the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land
- PDF FAO and the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture
- Video New Zealand and the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture
- PDF Outcomes and lessons learned from the Koronivia UNFCCC negotiations on agriculture and food security, and the way forward after COP 27
- Video What is the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture?
- Video The Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture process explained
- PDF The Koronivia joint work on agriculture and the convention bodies: an overview
- Video Understanding the future of Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture
- Video What’s next for the Koronivia Joint work on Agriculture? (Part 1)
- Video What’s next for the Koronivia Joint work on Agriculture? (Part 2)
- PDF Who is contributing to the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture and how?
- Video Why are the Koronivia Dialogues organized by FAO important?
- Video Why is the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture important?
- Video Why the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture matters
- Video ¿Qué trabajo está realizando América Latina en el marco de la Labor conjunta de Koronivia?
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Country experiences with climate-smart agriculture
Climate-smart agriculture country experiences: a variety of cross-cutting activities and practices.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Assessing the profitability and feasibility of climate-smart agriculture investment in Southern Malawi: Understanding the costs and benefits in a ...
- PDF Barriers, incentives and benefits in the adoption of climate-smart agriculture. Lessons from the MICCA pilot project in Kenya
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture case studies 2021 – Projects from around the world
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture guidelines for the United Republic of Tanzania
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture in China
- Website Climate-smart agriculture in action
- Website Climate-smart agriculture success stories: From farming communities around the world
- PDF Climate-smart agriculture. Case studies 2018. Successful approaches from different regions
- PDF Climate-smart livestock production
- Website Climate-smart soil, water and nutrient management options in semiarid West Africa: a review of evidence and analysis of stone bunds and zaï techniques
- PDF Eastern Africa Climate-Smart Agriculture Scoping Study: Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
- PDF Eastern Africa climate-smart agriculture scoping study: Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
- PDF Enabling farmers to face climate change: Second cycle of the benefit-sharing fund projects
- PDF Ethiopia climate-smart agriculture scoping study
- Website Integrated monitoring framework for climate-smart agriculture: Hoima climate-smart villages, Uganda
- Website Kenya country experience in reducing the GHG balance of the livestock production systems
- PDF Kenya's Tea Sector under Climate Change
- PDF Maasai communities in Kenya adapting to climate change by adopting smart-agriculture practices
- PDF Overview of the scientific, political and financial landscape of climate-smart agriculture in West Africa
- PDF Planning, implementing and evaluating climate-smart sgriculture in smallholder farming systems. The experience of the MICCA pilot projects in ...
- PDF Quesungual & Kuxur Rum: Ancestral agroforestry systems in the Dry Corridor of Central America
- PDF Sustainable production intensification and value chain development in Africa
- Website The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) for rapid characterisation of households to inform climate smart agriculture interventions: ...
- PDF Towards climate-smart agriculture in Egypt
- PDF Transforming agriculture in Africa’s Small Island Developing States
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Overview of FAO's work on climate change
This collection provides a general overview of FAO's work on climate change at the global, regional and national level.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Adaptation in the agriculture sectors: leveraging co-benefits for mitigation and sustainable development
- Website Addressing agricultural sector open burning: Results and lessons learned from the climate and clean air coalition no-burn alternative ...
- PDF Climate change and the global dairy cattle sector
- PDF FAO Action Plan 2022–2025 for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Climate Change
- PDF FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022-2031 - COUNCIL Hundred and Seventieth Session 13-17 June 2022
- PDF FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031
- Website FAO contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- PDF FAO in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019
- PDF FAO in the Philippines: Delivering for impact
- PDF FAO’s work on Climate Change. Fisheries, Aquaculture and Climate Change: The role of fisheries and aquaculture in the implementation of the Paris ...
- PDF FAO’s work on climate change: Fisheries & aquaculture 2019
- PDF FAO’s work on climate change: United Nations Climate Change Conference 2019
- PDF Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- PDF Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment
- PDF Action Plan for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022-2031
- PDF Tackling climate change through rural women’s empowerment
- PDF The state of agricultural commodity markets: Agricultural trade, climate change and food security
- PDF The work of FAO to enhance national capacities to report on climate change , agriculture, forestry and other land use
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The impact of investments in the agriculture sector on climate change
These materials examine the impact of agricultural investments on climate changeThe most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Accelerating investment towards carbon-neutral agrifood systems
- PDF Adoption of climate technologies in the agrifood system: investment opportunities in Kazakhstan
- PDF Adoption of climate technologies in the agrifood system: investment opportunities in the Kyrgyz Republic
- PDF Agriculture-related activities in the Green Climate Fund portfolio
- Website Climate-related development finance to agrifood systems
- Website Climate-related development finance to agrifood systems, 2024 update
- Website Co-designing the assessment of climate change costs (COACCH)
- PDF Feeding people, protecting the planet
- Website Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
- PDF How to invest in farmers?
- PDF Incorporating climate change considerations into agricultural investment programmes. A guidance document.
- PDF Investing in agricultural water management
- Website Making climate finance work for agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific
- PDF Manual for climate investments of the private sector
- PDF Private sector mapping, outreach, and engagement in climate-responsive agrifood systems
- Website Promoting inclusive green finance in agriculture
- PDF The shortest path. Accelerating investment towards carbon-neutral agrifood systems
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Mitigating climate change through agriculture
The agriculture sector contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions but can also contribute to global mitigation efforts. Studies to inform policy are presented in this collection.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PDF Achieving transformational change in land use and climate change
- Website AgLED Resource Platform
- Website Agriculture Methodology
- PDF Climate change mitigation
- PDF Climate change mitigation options in agrifood systems
- PDF How can agrifood trade support climate change mitigation?
- PDF Comunidades rurales bajas en carbono: Aumentando la resiliencia y mitigando el cambio climático para el desarrollo rural: una experiencia en Honduras
- Website Enhancing climate change mitigation through agriculture
- Website Global Nitrous Oxide Assessment
- PDF Low carbon rural communities: Enhancing resilience and mitigating climate change for rural development: one experience in Honduras
- Website Policy strategies and challenges for climate change mitigation in the Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Use (AFOLU) sector
- Website Revising Public Agricultural Support to Mitigate Climate Change
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Tools and databases for analyzing and modelling climate change adaptation
A wide range of tools to support decision-making for adaptation and modelling efficient agriculture practices.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Climate Action Review Tool
- Website Climate Change Adaptation in the Livestock Sector
- PDF Climate maps for the Lao People's Democratic Republic
- PDF Designing climate change adaptation initiatives: A UNDP toolkit for practitioners
- Website Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) tool
- PDF GCF Project Toolkit 2017. Guide to develop a project proposal for the Green Climate Fund (GCF)
- Website InVest: Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Trade-offs
- Website Integrated Modelling Platform for Mixed Animal Crop systems Lite Tool (IMPACT)
- Website Modelling European agriculture with climate change for food security (MACSUR)
- Website Modelling System for Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change (MOSAICC)
- Website Strengthening monitoring and evaluation for adaptation in the agriculture sectors
- Website The UKCIP Adaptation Wizard
- PDF UNDP–FAO Climate Action Review Tool
- PDF Using metrics to assess progress towards the Paris Agreement’s Global Goal on Adaptation
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Methodologies and guidelines for greenhouse gas assessments
FAO methodologies to quantify greenhouse gas emissions arising from different agricultural sources and to identify mitigation opportunities.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
- Website 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
- Website An Eye on Methane: International Methane Emissions Observatory 2022 Report
- PDF Emissions Gap Report 2021
- Website Emissions Gap Report 2022
- Website Emissions Gap Report 2023
- Website Emissions Gap Report 2024
- Website Global Database of National GHG Inventory (GHGI) Capacity in Developing Countries
- Website Global Nitrous Oxide Assessment
- Website Greenhouse Gas Accounting for Sustainable Land Management : Quick Guidance for Users
- PDF Greenhouse gas emissions and fossil energy use from poultry supply chains: Guidelines for assessment
- PDF Greenhouse gas emissions and fossil energy use from small ruminant supply chains. Guidelines for assessment.
- PDF Greenhouse gas emissions ruminant supply chains: A global life cycle assessment
- PDF Guidance for setting up and enhancing national technical teams for GHG inventories in developing countries
- PDF Guidance for the standardized greenhouse assessment of agriculture, forestry and other land use projects
- PDF Livestock Activity Data Guidance (L-ADG)
- PDF Methane emissions in livestock and rice systems
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Part V: household food consumption.
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems Part VI: fluorinated gas emissions
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems – Part III: energy use in fertilizer manufacturing, food processing, packaging, ...
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Part II: waste disposal.
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Part I: domestic food transport.
- PDF Methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems. Part IV: Pesticide manufacturing.
- PDF Policy Strategies and Challenges for Climate Change Mitigation in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Sector
- PDF Smallholder dairy methodology
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Learning materials on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
A wide variety of learning materials and e-learning courses on the Sustainable Development Goals including those related to climate change.The most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- Website Etudes en prospectives sur le changement climatique
- PDF FAO and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Website Introduction to Sustainable Development Goal Indicators under FAO custodianship
- Website SDG Indicator 2.4.1 - Sustainable Agriculture
- Website SDG Indicators 15.1.1 - 15.2.1 - Forest area and sustainable forest management
- PDF Sustainable Development Report 2022
- Website Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) knowledge hub
- PDF Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2023
- PDF Transforming food and agriculture to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Tools for reporting on adaptation under the Enhanced Transparency Framework
A wide variety of methodologies and tools for technical audiences to enhance capacity in reporting on adaptation under the Enhanced Transparency FrameworkThe most relevant resources in this collection are highlighted in bold:- PPT Adaptation M&E toolbox
- PDF Developing national adaptation monitoring and evaluation systems: A guidebook
- PDF FAO’s Damage and Loss Assessment methodology to monitor the Sendai Framework’s Indicator C2 and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- PDF Framing and tracking 21st century climate adaptation: Monitoring, evaluation and learning for Paris, the SDGs and beyond
- PDF Monitoring and evaluation of adaptation - an introduction
- Website Monitoring and evaluation training package
- PDF Reporting adaptation through the biennial transparency report: A practical explanation of the guidance
- Website Reporting on adaptation in the agriculture and land use sectors under the Paris Agreement: Loss and damage assessment
- PDF Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of Climate Resilience of Farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)
- PDF Strengthening M&E for adaptation planning in the agriculture sector
- Website Strengthening monitoring and evaluation for adaptation in the agriculture sectors
- Website Strengthening monitoring and evaluation for adaptation in the agriculture sectors
- PDF The Modelling System for Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change (MOSAICC) Tool and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- PDF The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Adaptation training package and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
- PDF The self-evaluation and holistic assessment of climate resilience of farmers and pastoralists (SHARP) tool and the Enhanced Transparency Framework ...
- PDF Tracking adaptation and measuring development: a step-by-step guide
- PDF Using metrics to assess progress towards the Paris Agreement’s Global Goal on Adaptation