Global Scale
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations provides a range of best practice guidance in the areas of forestry and agriculture in relation to adaption to climate change. This guidance may be applied to both developing and developed countries. For further information on the Food and Agriculture Organization click here.
Irish Agriculture
Food production in Ireland is mainly based on milk and meat production from grass based systems. As such Irish farmers are relatively efficient, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per unit of product, when compared to more intensive production systems.
The Department of Agriculture and Food published a Good Farming Practice (“GFP”) booklet in August 2001 and distributed it to all farmers. Some 130,000 farmers were subject to GFP in the period 2000-2006.
In addition, the Farmers Handbook for REPS 4 contains guidance on land use and planting of hedgerows.
Irish Forestry
COFORD, the National Council for Forest Research and Development, have a number of best practice publications designed to advise commercial foresters on a range of issues as listed below:
- Carbon sequestration in Irish forest ecosystems
- Development of tools and systems for reporting on forest carbon stocks and stock change under the Kyoto protocol and the UNFCCC
- The use of Ecological Site Classification in adapting forests and their management to climate change
- Soil carbon stock changes and greenhouse gas fluxes in Irish forests
- Carbon stocks and carbon changes in harvested wood product
For more information click here to go to the Coford website.