Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015

Setting the scene.- Agriculture, climate and future land use patterns: potential for a simulation-based exploration.- Technology development and climate change as drivers of future agricultural land use.- Agricultural transitions at dryland and tropical forest margins: actors, scales and trade-offs.- Cases on future land use.- World livestock and crop production systems, land use and environment between 1970 and 2030.- Agricultural change and limits to deforestation in Central America.- Rising food demand, climate change and the use of land and water.- Population and economic growth as drivers of future land use in India.- Agricultural mitigation responses.- Bottom-up methodologies for assessing technical and economic bioenergy production potential.- Changes in consumption patterns: options and impacts of a transition in protein foods.- Participatory approaches for a transition in agriculture: the case of the Netherlands.- Options and trade-offs: reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food production systems.- U.S. agriculture and forestry greenhouse gas emission mitigation over time.- Biosphere greenhouse gas management: transformative change in Canadian northern Great Plains agriculture.- Policy and social responses.- Policy efforts to achieve sustainable agriculture: an OECD perspective.- Institutional and organizational change: biosphere greenhouse gas management in Canadian northern Great Plains agriculture.- Performance standards and the farmer: design and application in greenhouse gas mitigation.