37,000 East African smallholders implementing low emissions agriculture resulting in 1 Mt CO2eq verified mitigation

CCAFS. 2019. 37,000 East African smallholders implementing low emissions agriculture resulting in 1 Mt CO2eq verified mitigation. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

In Kenya and Uganda, 37,000 smallholders implemented low emission agriculture as a result of participatory action research on institutional self-sufficiency in carbon projects by CCAFS with EcoAgriculture Partners, Vi-Agroforestry and ECOTRUST. To date, 14 agroforestry practices have been implemented on 28,000 ha, resulting in 1 Mt CO2eq 3rd-party verified mitigation, with approximately 70% women participants.