More Than Just Hot Air : Carbon Market Access and Climate-Smart Agriculture for Smallholder Farmers

The Kenya agricultural carbon project is breaking new ground in designing and implementing climate finance projects in the agricultural sector. The project is regarded as an innovative example for climate-smart agriculture within and outside the World Bank. For the first time, while increasing productivity and enhancing resilience to climate change, smallholder farmers in Africa will receive payments for greenhouse gas mitigation based on sustainable agricultural land management. Quantification of carbon sequestration is monitored based on a newly developed carbon accounting methodology. This smart lesson describes the key factors to take into consideration when facilitating the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices and access to carbon markets for smallholder farmers.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Woelcke, Johannes
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012-01
Subjects:	ADVISORY SERVICES, AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURAL LAND, AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, AIR, BIOMASS, CAPACITY ASSESSMENT, CAPACITY BUILDING, CARBON, CARBON ACCOUNTING, CARBON FINANCE, CARBON FINANCE OPERATIONS, CARBON MARKET, CARBON MARKETS, CARBON PAYMENTS, CARBON POOLS, CARBON PROJECT, CARBON PROJECTS, CARBON REVENUES, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CO, COMPOSTING, COST-EFFICIENCY, CROP RESIDUE, CROP YIELDS, DEGRADED LAND, EMISSION, EMISSION REDUCTION, EMISSION REDUCTION PURCHASE AGREEMENT, EMISSION REDUCTIONS, FARM ENTERPRISES, FARM SIZE, FARMER, FARMER GROUPS, FARMING SYSTEMS, FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, FINANCIAL CAPACITY, FINANCIAL RESOURCES, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, FLOW OF CARBON, FOOD SECURITY, FORESTRY, GREENHOUSE, GREENHOUSE GAS, GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION, HOT AIR, INVESTMENT PLANS, LAND MANAGEMENT, LAND USE, PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, SMALL FARMERS, SMALLHOLDER, SMALLHOLDER FARMER, SMALLHOLDER FARMERS, SOIL CARBON, SUBSISTENCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRANSACTION COST, TRANSACTION COSTS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/17565636/more-just-hot-air-carbon-market-access-climate-smart-agriculture-smallholder-farmers https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17106
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