Assessment of adoption and impact of management innovations in agriculture carbon project in East Africa

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cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen
cg.contributor.affiliationTaita Taveta Universityen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen
cg.coverage.countryKenyaen
cg.coverage.countryUgandaen
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KEen
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UGen
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen
cg.creator.identifierArun Khatri-Chhetri: 0000-0002-3811-0462en
cg.creator.identifierJohn Walker Recha: 0000-0002-1146-7197en
cg.creator.identifierMaren Radeny: 0000-0001-6470-8372en
cg.number334en
cg.placeWageningen, The Netherlandsen
cg.subject.ccafsLOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENTen
dc.contributor.authorKhatri-Chhetri, Arunen
dc.contributor.authorJuma, Ogada Mauriceen
dc.contributor.authorWekesa, Amosen
dc.contributor.authorRecha, John W.M.en
dc.contributor.authorRadeny, Maren A.O.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-15T19:08:21Zen
dc.date.available2021-01-15T19:08:21Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110876
dc.titleAssessment of adoption and impact of management innovations in agriculture carbon project in East Africaen
dcterms.abstractThis working paper presents results of an impact assessment of management innovations that were introduced in agricultural carbon projects in East Africa. We evaluated the effect of project design, management, and monitoring transfer of responsibilities to local communities on the performance of agricultural carbon projects. The assessment included the economic, social, and environmental impacts of the projects on the smallholder farmers. The agriculture carbon projects implemented by Vi Agroforestry and Environmental Conservation Trust (ECOTRUST) have received a total of 1,951,437 tCO2e greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction credits from 2010 to 2019. In Vi Agroforestry, 29,500 farm households in 1,725 farmers groups benefited from the implementation of the projects. They received a total of 624,960 tCO2e GHG reduction credits in the last 10 years. Similarly, around 9,000 smallholder farmers participated in the agricultural carbon project managed by ECOTRUST and they received 1,326,447 tCO2e worth of verified emissions reduction certificates from 2010 to 2019. The majority of the farmers (~70%) in the agricultural carbon projects were women. This assessment showed that the institutional approach of transferring management authority to local communities, including capacity building activities and social inclusion, can generate multiple benefits (economic, social, and environmental) for the smallholder farmers. Local institutions (i.e., farmer groups) and intermediaries (i.e., non-governmental organizations) played a leading role in the use of management innovations (i.e., training manuals) for effective design, management, and monitoring of the agricultural carbon projects in Kenya and Uganda.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKhatri-Chhetri A, Ogada MJ, Wekesa A, Recha J, Radeny M. 2020. Assessment of adoption and impact of management innovations in agriculture carbon project. CCAFS Working Paper no. 334. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).en
dcterms.extent39 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfWorking paperen
dcterms.issued2020-12-21en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-4.0en
dcterms.publisherCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectmitigationen
dcterms.subjectimpact assessmenten
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen

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