Improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders: addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication
New opportunities for farmers in the developing world to benefit from carbon payments for improved agricultural practices and planting trees on their farms now exist. However, engaging farmers in such carbon finance schemes is challenging, due to the need to establish ways of measuring, monitoring a...
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| description | New opportunities for farmers in the developing world to benefit from carbon payments for improved agricultural practices and planting trees on their farms now exist. However, engaging farmers in such carbon finance schemes is challenging, due to the need to establish ways of measuring, monitoring and verifying how much carbon is being sequestered, uncertainties surrounding the carbon market, barriers related to language and media access and participation in information flows, and unclear risks and unrealistic expectations about benefits of carbon schemes to farmers. |
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| spelling | CGSpace358742021-02-23T17:44:16Z Improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders: addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication World Agroforestry Centre agriculture climate smallholders carbon New opportunities for farmers in the developing world to benefit from carbon payments for improved agricultural practices and planting trees on their farms now exist. However, engaging farmers in such carbon finance schemes is challenging, due to the need to establish ways of measuring, monitoring and verifying how much carbon is being sequestered, uncertainties surrounding the carbon market, barriers related to language and media access and participation in information flows, and unclear risks and unrealistic expectations about benefits of carbon schemes to farmers. 2011 2014-06-11T06:34:09Z 2014-06-11T06:34:09Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/35874 en Open Access ICRAF. 2011. Improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders: addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication. Policy Brief No. 11. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF). |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate smallholders carbon World Agroforestry Centre Improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders: addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication |
| title | Improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders: addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication |
| title_full | Improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders: addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication |
| title_fullStr | Improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders: addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders: addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication |
| title_short | Improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders: addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication |
| title_sort | improving carbon initiatives aimed at smallholders addressing opportunities and challenges through better communication |
| topic | agriculture climate smallholders carbon |
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