Authors
Jonathan E Hickman, Robert J Scholes, Todd S Rosenstock, C Pérez Garcia-Pando, Justice Nyamangara
Publication date
2014/11/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
9
Pages
65-72
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- An African Green Revolution would increase N inputs by an order of magnitude.
- Data gaps constrain current and future estimates of emissions from Africa.
- Livestock, fires, and soils represent the major African sources of climate forcing.
- Mitigation innovations must focus on alleviating food insecurity and poverty first.
There are few direct measurements of anthropogenic climate-forcing emissions in Africa, making it difficult to accurately assess current emissions and to anticipate changes in future emissions. Emissions databases suggest that sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), home to less than 15% of the world's population, is responsible for 11% of anthropogenic methane (CH 4) and 18% of anthropogenic nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions globally, though this includes substantial emissions from biomass burning that would occur in the absence of contemporary anthropogenic activity, and which may be over-estimated …
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