Institutions for Agricultural Mitigation: Potential and Challenges in Four Countries
The agriculture sector has great potential to contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions through changes in agricultural management and land use. However, the technical potential for agricultural mitigation has yet to translate into actual emission reductions due to considerable constr...
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| author | Bryan, Elizabeth De Pinto, Alessandro Ringler, Claudia Asuming-Brempong, Samuel Bendaoud, Mohamed Artur, Luis Givá, Nicia Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo Sarpong, Daniel Bruce El-Harizi, Khalid Mai, Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Dao The van Rheenen, Teunis Ferguson, Jenna |
| author_browse | Anh, Dao The Artur, Luis Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo Asuming-Brempong, Samuel Bendaoud, Mohamed Bryan, Elizabeth De Pinto, Alessandro El-Harizi, Khalid Ferguson, Jenna Givá, Nicia Mai, Nguyen Ngoc Ringler, Claudia Sarpong, Daniel Bruce van Rheenen, Teunis |
| author_facet | Bryan, Elizabeth De Pinto, Alessandro Ringler, Claudia Asuming-Brempong, Samuel Bendaoud, Mohamed Artur, Luis Givá, Nicia Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo Sarpong, Daniel Bruce El-Harizi, Khalid Mai, Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Dao The van Rheenen, Teunis Ferguson, Jenna |
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| description | The agriculture sector has great potential to contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions through changes in agricultural management and land use. However, the technical potential for agricultural mitigation has yet to translate into actual emission reductions due to considerable constraints to the generation of emission offsets through agricultural projects. These constraints include national and subnational policies and institutional structures as well as institutional and resource constraints at the local level, such as lack of knowledge, organizational capacity, and start-up finance. This paper explores the institutional barriers to agricultural mitigation in four developing countries: Ghana, Morocco, Mozambique, and Vietnam. The findings show that the institutional environment greatly influences the capacity to engage in agricultural mitigation activities. In particular, the centrally planned system in Vietnam provides little space for local, community-based organizations to act collectively around issues of mutual interest, making it difficult to engage numerous smallholders in agricultural mitigation projects. At the same time, government-led mitigation projects may be more feasible in Vietnam compared to the African case studies, where the governments lack well-defined and coordinated strategies and regulations to support mitigation. Governance of contractual obligations is also a challenge to agricultural mitigation. While several organizations in the case study countries have relevant experience for organizing smallholder farmers, most of these organizations lack technical expertise in carbon markets, have limited knowledge of strategies for agricultural mitigation, and lack resources needed for start-up and implementation of mitigation projects. |
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| spelling | CGSpace248642025-12-10T12:46:05Z Institutions for Agricultural Mitigation: Potential and Challenges in Four Countries Bryan, Elizabeth De Pinto, Alessandro Ringler, Claudia Asuming-Brempong, Samuel Bendaoud, Mohamed Artur, Luis Givá, Nicia Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo Sarpong, Daniel Bruce El-Harizi, Khalid Mai, Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Dao The van Rheenen, Teunis Ferguson, Jenna agriculture climate governance The agriculture sector has great potential to contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions through changes in agricultural management and land use. However, the technical potential for agricultural mitigation has yet to translate into actual emission reductions due to considerable constraints to the generation of emission offsets through agricultural projects. These constraints include national and subnational policies and institutional structures as well as institutional and resource constraints at the local level, such as lack of knowledge, organizational capacity, and start-up finance. This paper explores the institutional barriers to agricultural mitigation in four developing countries: Ghana, Morocco, Mozambique, and Vietnam. The findings show that the institutional environment greatly influences the capacity to engage in agricultural mitigation activities. In particular, the centrally planned system in Vietnam provides little space for local, community-based organizations to act collectively around issues of mutual interest, making it difficult to engage numerous smallholders in agricultural mitigation projects. At the same time, government-led mitigation projects may be more feasible in Vietnam compared to the African case studies, where the governments lack well-defined and coordinated strategies and regulations to support mitigation. Governance of contractual obligations is also a challenge to agricultural mitigation. While several organizations in the case study countries have relevant experience for organizing smallholder farmers, most of these organizations lack technical expertise in carbon markets, have limited knowledge of strategies for agricultural mitigation, and lack resources needed for start-up and implementation of mitigation projects. 2012-10 2012-11-29T09:35:06Z 2012-11-29T09:35:06Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/24864 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Bryan E, De Pinto A, Ringler C, Asuming-Brempong S, Bendaoud M, Artur L, Givá N, Anh D T, Mai N N, Asenso-Okyere K, Sarpong D B, El-Harizi K, van Rheenen T, Ferguson J. 2012. Institutions for agricultural mitigation: Potential and challenges in four countries. CAPRi Working Paper No. 107. Washington DC.: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/24864 |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate governance Bryan, Elizabeth De Pinto, Alessandro Ringler, Claudia Asuming-Brempong, Samuel Bendaoud, Mohamed Artur, Luis Givá, Nicia Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo Sarpong, Daniel Bruce El-Harizi, Khalid Mai, Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Dao The van Rheenen, Teunis Ferguson, Jenna Institutions for Agricultural Mitigation: Potential and Challenges in Four Countries |
| title | Institutions for Agricultural Mitigation: Potential and Challenges in Four Countries |
| title_full | Institutions for Agricultural Mitigation: Potential and Challenges in Four Countries |
| title_fullStr | Institutions for Agricultural Mitigation: Potential and Challenges in Four Countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Institutions for Agricultural Mitigation: Potential and Challenges in Four Countries |
| title_short | Institutions for Agricultural Mitigation: Potential and Challenges in Four Countries |
| title_sort | institutions for agricultural mitigation potential and challenges in four countries |
| topic | agriculture climate governance |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/24864 |
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