Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change
Key messages - Smallholder farmers can contribute significantly to climate change mitigation but will need incentives to adapt their practices. - Incentives from selling carbon credits are limited by low returns to farmers, high transaction costs, and the need for farmers to invest in mitigation act...
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| author | Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Higman S Seeberg-Elverfeldt, C Neely, Constance Tapio-Bistrom, M.L. Neufeldt, Henry |
| author_browse | Higman S Neely, Constance Neufeldt, Henry Seeberg-Elverfeldt, C Tapio-Bistrom, M.L. Wollenberg, Eva Karoline |
| author_facet | Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Higman S Seeberg-Elverfeldt, C Neely, Constance Tapio-Bistrom, M.L. Neufeldt, Henry |
| author_sort | Wollenberg, Eva Karoline |
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- Smallholder farmers can contribute significantly to climate change mitigation but will need incentives to adapt their practices. - Incentives from selling carbon credits are limited by low returns to farmers, high transaction costs, and the need for farmers to invest in mitigation activities long before they receive payments. - Improved food security, economic benefits and adaptation to climate change are more fundamental incentives that should accompany mitigation. - Designing agricultural investment and policy to provide up-front finance and longer term rewards for mitigation practices will help reach larger numbers of farmers than specialized mitigation interventions. |
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| spelling | CGSpace217302024-01-23T12:04:26Z Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Higman S Seeberg-Elverfeldt, C Neely, Constance Tapio-Bistrom, M.L. Neufeldt, Henry climate financial policies incentives small farms Key messages - Smallholder farmers can contribute significantly to climate change mitigation but will need incentives to adapt their practices. - Incentives from selling carbon credits are limited by low returns to farmers, high transaction costs, and the need for farmers to invest in mitigation activities long before they receive payments. - Improved food security, economic benefits and adaptation to climate change are more fundamental incentives that should accompany mitigation. - Designing agricultural investment and policy to provide up-front finance and longer term rewards for mitigation practices will help reach larger numbers of farmers than specialized mitigation interventions. 2012-08-15 2012-09-05T12:38:23Z 2012-09-05T12:38:23Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/21730 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Wollenberg E, Higman S, Seeberg-Elverfeldt C, Neely C, Tapio-Bistrom M.-L, Neufeldt H. 2012. Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change. CCAFS Policy Brief 5. Copenhagen, Denmark: CCAFS. |
| spellingShingle | climate financial policies incentives small farms Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Higman S Seeberg-Elverfeldt, C Neely, Constance Tapio-Bistrom, M.L. Neufeldt, Henry Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change |
| title | Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change |
| title_full | Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change |
| title_fullStr | Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change |
| title_short | Helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change |
| title_sort | helping smallholder farmers mitigate climate change |
| topic | climate financial policies incentives small farms |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/21730 |
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