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Global Climate Change: Questions and Answers

Impacts

What is climate change?

How do changes in climate and other atmospheric conditions affect agriculture?

How does ERS estimate the potential agricultural effects of global changes in climate and other atmospheric conditions?

What effects would global climate change likely have on world agriculture?

What effects would global climate change likely have on U.S. agriculture?

What direct effects would rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide likely have on world and U.S. agriculture?

Mitigation

What are the agricultural sources of greenhouse gas emissions?

What is the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and what are its implications for U.S. agriculture?

How can shifting marginal agricultural lands to new uses sequester carbon and mitigate climate change?

How can changing farm production practices increase soil carbon levels?

How could U.S. farm policy encourage the farm sector to reduce greenhouse gases?

 

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Updated date: August 19, 2004