The Kenya National Domestic Biogas Programme: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute for Environment and Developmenten
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationHivosen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.identifier.urlhttp://pubs.iied.org/16588IIEDen
cg.isbn978-1-78431-170-4en
cg.subject.ciatCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATIONen
cg.subject.ciatECOSYSTEM SERVICESen
cg.subject.ciatMARKETSen
dc.contributor.authorPorras, Inaen
dc.contributor.authorVorley, Billen
dc.contributor.authorAmrein, Alexandraen
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-16T14:12:25Zen
dc.date.available2017-03-16T14:12:25Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/80382
dc.titleThe Kenya National Domestic Biogas Programme: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?en
dcterms.abstractThe Kenya National Domestic Biogas Programme promotes the installation of biodigesters in agricultural smallholdings across the country. Biogas provides on-demand energy in the home and is demonstrably better for the environment as it reduces dependence on firewood, and better for health as a smokeless fuel. It also qualifies for payments for ecosystem services (PES) in the form of carbon offsets. Can carbon finance therefore play a role in upscaling the biogas industry to allow more, and poorer, households to participate? Or are the returns too low, especially given the transaction costs involved? And how can farmers benefit directly? This report examines the value chains and business models involved in the biogas programme to see what contribution carbon finance can make – if any – to growing Kenya’s domestic biogas industry.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationPorras, I., Vorley, B., Amrein, A. (2015) The Kenya National Domestic Biogas Programme: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture? IIED and Hivos.en
dcterms.extent44 p.en
dcterms.issued2015-11
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.typeBook

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