Agricultural carbon finance projects: Can they be sustainable?

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dc.contributor.authorClements, C.en
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Keith M.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialKenyaen
dc.coverage.spatialMozambiqueen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:30:40Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:30:40Zen
dc.date.issued2014en
dc.description.abstractAgricultural carbon schemes are purported to constitute a ‘triple win’ for sustainable development. Practices such as agroforestry, reduced tillage, and grasslands management can increase yields and improve resilience while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and providing revenues through the sale of carbon credits. Scaling up carbon credits involves complex institutional structures for promoting practices and aggregating carbon monitoring, reporting and verification. Scaling occurs across three scales of analysis: micro, meso, and macro. This presentation focuses on an analysis of the meso scale, where multiple levels of intermediaries are involved in governance and management. In the case of most agricultural carbon schemes, an external organization functions as a higher-level intermediary while pre-existing local associations are enrolled as lower-level intermediaries. Two case studies are evaluated based on stakeholder engagement, market linkages, and the generation and use of carbon revenues. This evaluation leads to questions which serve to guide evaluation of the sustainability of agricultural carbon finance projects.en
dc.description.notesME (Management Entity)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/vnd.ms-powerpointen
dc.identifier7649en
dc.identifier.citationPresented at the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, Lexington, KY, 27-1 March 2014en
dc.identifier.other7649_ClementsandMoore_Ag_Carbon_Projects_2_2.pptxen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/70224en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectStakeholdersen
dc.subjectCarbon sequestrationen
dc.subjectCommunity institutionsen
dc.subjectNongovernmental organizations (NGOs)en
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectCommunity-based organizationsen
dc.subjectClimate controlen
dc.subjectForestryen
dc.subjectAgroforestryen
dc.subjectConservation tillageen
dc.subjectCarbon creditsen
dc.subjectagricultural carbon sequestrationen
dc.subjectTerrestrial carbon sequestrationen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleAgricultural carbon finance projects: Can they be sustainable?en
dc.typePresentationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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