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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Main Author: World Agroforestry Centre
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/35874
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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).
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carbon
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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
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climate
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carbon
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