indications of the EcoAgriculture smallholders impacts of these and Instituto in project benefits on de Pesquisa area poverty alleviation Ambiental da and GHG Amazônia emissions. (IPAM) Target Institutes Year Activities Products Assumptions Regions Involved 2011 1. Create a 1. Web-based 1. Interest and Global, CGIAR centers, global platform platform and willingness of East and ESSP, Global for exchange clearinghouse partners to West Carbon and synthesis identifying contribute Africa, Project, of information mitigation findings to University of about impacts of platform Vermont, innovations in practices 2. Agricultural Oxford agricultural and their intensification Amazon University, mitigation. will be Basin, Leeds 2. Develop necessary to Southeast University, alternative implications. meet future Asia University of scenarios to 2. Report on: food demand Edinburgh, develop (a) the net 3. Adaptation World Bank, strategies for emissions of will be CARE, agricultural different necessary to Ecoagriculture, intensification scenarios, (b) produce food IIED, FAO, and adaptation mitigation in a changing developing in different implications climate country regions. of alternative 4. Barriers partners tbd Involve adaptation exist to decision strategies, smallholder makers to and (c) participation share identification in carbon scenarios, of promising markets models and options for 5. Institutions consideration mitigation for of alternative that maximize strategies. the management ratio for of carbon will 3. Assess mitigation, exist barriers to poverty entry and alleviation, factors food security affecting and benefits from environmental the carbon heath. market for 3. Systems for differentiated GHG social groups, monitoring including and women, and
indications of the impacts of these benefits on poverty alleviation and GHG emissions. EcoAgriculture and Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM) smallholders in project area Year Activities Products Assumptions Target Regions Institutes Involved 2011 1. Create a global platform for exchange and synthesis of information about innovations in agricultural mitigation. 2. Develop alternative scenarios to develop strategies for agricultural intensification and adaptation in different regions. Involve decision makers to share scenarios, models and consideration of alternative strategies. 3. Assess barriers to entry and factors affecting benefits from the carbon market for differentiated social groups, including women, and 1. Web-based platform and clearinghouse identifying mitigation impacts of practices and their implications. 2. Report on: (a) the net emissions of different scenarios, (b) mitigation implications of alternative adaptation strategies, and (c) identification of promising options for mitigation that maximize the ratio for mitigation, poverty alleviation, food security and environmental heath. 3. Systems for GHG monitoring and 1. Interest and willingness of partners to contribute findings to platform 2. Agricultural intensification will be necessary to meet future food demand 3. Adaptation will be necessary to produce food in a changing climate 4. Barriers exist to smallholder participation in carbon markets 5. Institutions for management of carbon will exist Global, East and West Africa, Amazon Basin, Southeast Asia CGIAR centers, ESSP, Global Carbon Project, University of Vermont, Oxford University, Leeds University, University of Edinburgh, World Bank, CARE, Ecoagriculture, IIED, FAO, developing country partners tbd
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