Recommended readings
Recommended Readings
These readings are the key references I returned to again and again while writing The Carbon Farming Solution (and a few that I've discovered since). While most are not light reading, they permit a more detailed investigation of the core subjects of this book.
Part 1: The Big Picture
FAO, Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook
IPCC, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policymakers
IPCC, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Summary for Policymakers
IPCC, Climate Change 2014: Chapter 11: Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use
Lal, “Abating Climate Change and Feeding the World Through Soil Carbon Sequestration”
Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Nair, “Carbon Sequestration in Agroforestry Systems”
Nair, Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems
Nair, “Methodological Challenges in Estimating Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems”
Oxfam International, Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People, and Poverty
Tokar, Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change
Part 2: A Global Toolkit of Practices and Species
Boffa, Agroforestry Parklands in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cuartas Cardona et al., “Contribution of Intensive Silvopastoral Systems to Animal Performance and to Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change”
ECHO, Agricultural Options for the Small-Scale Farmer
FAO, Tackling Climate Change Through Livestock
Garrity, “Evergreen Agriculture: A Robust Approach to Sustainable Food Security in Africa”
Gordon, Temperate Agroforestry Systems
Leakey, Living with the Trees of Life: Towards the Transformation of Tropical Agriculture
Li, Agro-Ecological Farming Systems in China
Nair, Introduction to Agroforestry
Nair, Tropical Homegardens
Steinfeld et al., Livestock’s Long Shadow
World Agroforestry Center, Participatory Agroforestry Development in DPR Korea
Part 3: Perennial Staple Crops
Clay, World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-by-Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices
Duke, Handbook of Nuts
FAO, Perennial Crops for Food Security: Proceedings of the FAO Expert Workshop
Hanelt, Mansfeld’s Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops and online database
Janick and Paull, The Encyclopedia of Fruits and Nuts
National Research Council, Lost Crops of Africa, volume 2 and volume 3
Pasiecznik, The Prosopis juliflora–Prosopis pallida Complex: A Monograph
Plant Resources of Southeast Asia
Plant Resources of Tropical Africa
White, Grass, Soil, and Hope
Wilkinson, Nut Grower’s Guide: The Complete Handbook for Producers and Hobbyists
Part 4: Perennial Industrial Crops
Calvin, “Petroleum Plantations for Fuel and Materials”
Clark, Introduction to Chemicals from Biomass
Clay, World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-by-Commodity Guide to Impacts and Practices
Duke, Handbook of Energy Crops
El Bassam, Handbook of Bioenergy Crops
Finlay, Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security
Halford, Energy Crops
Hanelt, Mansfeld’s Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops and online database
Henley, Kuehl, and Tiping, The Climate Change Challenge and Bamboo
Langenheim, Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany
Müssig, Industrial Applications of Natural Fibers: Structure, Properties, and Technical Applications
National Academy of Sciences, Firewood Crops: Shrub and Tree Species for Energy Production, volume 1 and volume 2
Singh, Industrial Crops and Uses
Tokar, “Biofuels and the Global Food Crisis”
Part 5: Road Map to Implementation
Chan and Roach, Unfinished Puzzle: Cuban Agriculture, The Challenges, Lessons & Opportunities
FAO, Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook
IPCC, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Summary for Policymakers
Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism Versus the Climate
Leakey, Twelve Principles for Better Food and More Food from Mature Perennial Agroecosystems
Martinez, Steve. Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues
Wollenberg et al., Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture