benefits from 4. Farmers will agricultural participate in mitigation. carbon 2. Report, markets if website, incentives are policy briefs sufficient and scientific article identifying promising institutions, market-based mechanisms and policies Objective 3. Institutional arrangements and incentives that enable smallholder farmers to participate effectively in carbon markets and reduce GHGs 2013 1. Identify a set 1. Validated 1. Outcomes Global, CGIAR centers, of target simulation that increase East and ESSP, Global practices that models that mitigation, West Carbon produce can be used to livelihood Africa, Project, outcomes identify the benefits, and University of at the mitigation environmental Vermont, household and potential of benefits are Plain, World Bank, landscape level different possible Amazon IFAD, 2. Assess options. 2. Sufficient Basin, Ecoagriculture, impacts on 2. Synthesis data exists to Southeast IIED, FAO, poverty report on validate Asia START, AFOLU alleviation, institutional simulation ministries, food security arrangements models developing and market-based 3. Institutional country environmental instruments, arrangements partners tbd health at policies and market-based multiple scales incentives instruments, 3. Work with that can policies and field-based improve incentives partners to access of the exist and have develop poor to had sufficient ways mitigation experience to of benefits, with show results communicating empirical data that indications of farmers and the impacts of decision these benefits makers can use on poverty to change their alleviation and land use GHG
benefits from agricultural mitigation. 2. Report, website, policy briefs and scientific article identifying promising institutions, market-based mechanisms and policies 4. Farmers will participate in carbon markets if incentives are sufficient Objective 3. Institutional arrangements and incentives that enable smallholder farmers to participate effectively in carbon markets and reduce GHGs 2013 1. Identify a set of target practices that produce outcomes at the household and landscape level 2. Assess impacts on poverty alleviation, food security and environmental health at multiple scales 3. Work with field-based partners to develop ways of communicating data that farmers and decision makers can use to change their land use 1. Validated simulation models that can be used to identify the mitigation potential of different options. 2. Synthesis report on institutional arrangements market-based instruments, policies and incentives that can improve access of the poor to mitigation benefits, with empirical indications of the impacts of these benefits on poverty alleviation and GHG 1. Outcomes that increase mitigation, livelihood benefits, and environmental benefits are possible 2. Sufficient data exists to validate simulation models 3. Institutional arrangements market-based instruments, policies and incentives exist and have had sufficient experience to show results Global, East and West Africa, Plain, Amazon Basin, Southeast Asia CGIAR centers, ESSP, Global Carbon Project, University of Vermont, World Bank, IFAD, Ecoagriculture, IIED, FAO, START, AFOLU ministries, developing country partners tbd
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