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Setting the scene.- Agriculture, climate and future land use patterns: potential for a simulation-based exploration.- Technology development and climate change as drivers of future agricultural land use.- Agricultural transitions at dryland and tropical forest margins: actors, scales and trade-offs.- Cases on future land use.- World livestock and crop production systems, land use and environment between 1970 and 2030.- Agricultural change and limits to deforestation in Central America.- Rising food demand, climate change and the use of land and water.- Population and economic growth as drivers of future land use in India.- Agricultural mitigation responses.- Bottom-up methodologies for assessing technical and economic bioenergy production potential.- Changes in consumption patterns: options and impacts of a transition in protein foods.- Participatory approaches for a transition in agriculture: the case of the Netherlands.- Options and trade-offs: reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food production systems.- U.S. agriculture and forestry greenhouse gas emission mitigation over time.- Biosphere greenhouse gas management: transformative change in Canadian northern Great Plains agriculture.- Policy and social responses.- Policy efforts to achieve sustainable agriculture: an OECD perspective.- Institutional and organizational change: biosphere greenhouse gas management in Canadian northern Great Plains agriculture.- Performance standards and the farmer: design and application in greenhouse gas mitigation.

Interactions between agriculture, climate and land use patterns Major changes in agriculture to control greenhouse gas emissions Future food demand and land use patterns