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Land Use: Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock 2015

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Mar 6, 2015 08:00 EST - Jun 14, 2015 12:00 EDT
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Jul 1, 2015 12:00 EDT - Jul 15, 2015 12:00 EDT
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Jul 15, 2015 12:00 EDT - Aug 3, 2015 12:00 EDT
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Aug 3, 2015 12:00 EDT - Sep 13, 2015 12:00 EDT
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Sep 13, 2015 12:00 EDT
How can we scale-up sustainable landscape management to significantly reduce GHG emissions while ensuring food, water, and energy security?

At present, agriculture, livestock and deforestation are responsible for 20-30% of global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Opportunities exist, however, for land uses to be capable of reducing or sequestering significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, as well as create more productive and resilient landscapes that increase food security, water availability and energy supply, and support growing incomes. This contest seeks proposals on sustainable land management practices that can be rapidly implemented and brought to scale, in order to significantly address the challenges of climate and global change.

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30 Proposals
Jul 14, 2015
Anyone
Bamboo, a grass, grows in most soils, environment and climatre and requires minimal culvation, input and care as it naturally purifies air.
Oct 22, 2015
Team only
Jul 13, 2015
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Via numerous extremely efficient farms, community members grow and transport vegetables to theirs' and their neighbor's table. 
Oct 22, 2015
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A policy mix of fiscal instruments and certificates aiming at greater legality sustainability of timber production in developing countries.
Jul 7, 2015
Team only
In Tanzania Agriculture is the most important source of income and it is carried out very extensively and without any thought to environment
Jul 3, 2015
Anyone
Collect fruit seeds with students help grow fruit trees everywhere, distribute fruits free, with request to save seeds & reuse next year
Jun 9, 2015
Team only
Resilient agriculture with HCC saves land, protects crops, future-proofs farming, saves water & converts CO2 to O2 + biomass/food. Cool.
Jun 4, 2015
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A low-cost, low-technology way of sequestering atmospheric carbon on a global scale with the tools we are already using.
Jul 20, 2015
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Jun 13, 2015
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Melting Arctic Permafrost represents fundamental threat to global climate. Restoring “Mammoth Steppe” could help.
Oct 22, 2015
Anyone
Come help us transform illegal charcoal makers into solar powered park rangers in the Virunga National Park in the DR Congo.
Jul 13, 2015
Team only
Apr 7, 2015
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Making healthy nutritious supplements easy even in places where there is no soil or is uncultivable.
May 24, 2015
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Providing locals alternative to forest exprolation via home gradens will keep our forest and increase their ablity to clean our environment
Jun 1, 2015
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Households represent the end source of consumerism, where food and other resources are waste. What if they were channelled to be resources?
Jun 4, 2015
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Give financial incentives to grow crops in the Southwest that are climate-suitable in order to help water replenishment
Mar 6, 2015
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On 2012, the Vorniceni Village Council, Moldova, approved a decision for the purpose of arranging of a square.
Jun 13, 2015
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Chemosynthetic production of biomass offers soil improvements, water reclamation and a CO2 Neg. Fuel Scenario. Industrial Scale Permaculture
Mar 7, 2015
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Use energy from thin film solar panels installed inside a greenhouse to help power LEDs used to grow food with stacked hydroponics systems.
Apr 12, 2015
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Flood relief, reforestation and reclamation of arid lands.
Apr 28, 2015
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a patir de algunos desechos que deja producir algunos productos, se realizara un concentrado rico en proteinas para los rumiantes.
Jun 11, 2015
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Healing our soils will restore vitality in all life forms.
Apr 22, 2015
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Soils management and agriculture practices can be utilized to sequester atmospheric carbon back into soils.
Apr 22, 2015
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Churches encourage congregations to grow any food- bring to share a community table, along with knowledge towards wisdom; sustainability.
Jun 12, 2015
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Ecological/Economic KEYS to GHGs balance, quick scale productivity, resilience, food security, water availability, energy supply and income
Apr 26, 2015
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Ecological land use management and integrated land use design through permaculture approach is critical in building sustainable villages.
Jun 13, 2015
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ATP's CRBBP Process cost-effectively remediates and/or stabilizes challenged soils, while producing lower-cost and beneficial bio-products.
Dec 14, 2016
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Climate-smart farming techniques would increase farm productivity and incomes..
Jun 3, 2015
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While new equipment is much more efficient than it was 20-30 years ago, making multiple passes through a field creates more GHGs
Jun 13, 2015
Team only
Crowd-sourced, app-driven, global effort moving carbon from the air into the soil which regenerates soil and boosts agriculture & ranching