Global Potentials for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Agriculture

Improved management of agricultural lands and other terrestrial areas offers considerable potential to mitigate climate change. Currently, 83% of the world’s land area is directly influenced by human interventions (Sanderson et al. 2002 cited in Kareiva et al. 2007), about half of the terrestrial earth’s surface is extensively managed and 25% is intensively managed (UNEP 2005).