Exploring the Meso-level of Agricultural Carbon Finance Projects
| Autor: | Keith M. Moore, Corinna Clements |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebase |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Carbon sequestration
Soil management Participatory processes Climate control Community organization Community-based organizations Associations Payments for environmental services Community forests Institutional capacity building Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Governance Watershed Revenue Agroforestry Carbon credit Conservation tillage Environmental planning Extension service Sustainable development Carbon finance business.industry Community participation Agriculture Environmental economics Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) Carbon project Local governance Business Community rights Community institutions |
| Zdroj: | Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa ISBN: 9783319093598 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-09360-4_26 |
| Popis: | Metadata only record Agricultural carbon schemes are intended to mitigate climate change and provide carbon revenues while facilitating sustainable development. This is accomplished through practices which simultaneously increase yields, improve resilience, and store carbon, such as agroforestry, reduced tillage, and grasslands management. Proper monitoring, reporting, and verification of these activities enable the generation and sale of carbon credits. However, this requires linking smallholder farmers at the micro-level with carbon credit buyers operating at the macro-level. These vastly distinct scales are bridged by intermediaries operating at the meso-level, which influence, incentivize, monitor, and aggregate production decisions made by smallholders. Multiple levels of intermediaries may be involved, often including external initiating agencies, such as non-governmental organizations, as well as local-level units, such as farmer groups or local governance associations. Here, we frame evaluation of agricultural carbon schemes with this three-tiered approach, and describe parameters for appraising participation and power, as well as assessing financial feasibility, verifications and market linkages. This is applied to two case studies: the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project and The Sofala Community Carbon Project. CCRA-8 (Technology Networks for Sustainable Innovation) |
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