Harvesting Carbon Sequestration For Rural Poverty Reduction
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Nov 26, 2007 |
 Millet cultivation under Acacia albida in Mali.
Agroforestry activities contribute to carbon sequestration and at the same time may enhance agricultural income.
The potential for carbon markets to achieve poverty alleviation depends on the degree to which the poor will be willing and competitive suppliers of credits. Opportunity costs faced by land users are a key determinant of who the willing sellers will be and the prices they would supply at. The opportunity costs of adopting sequestration are simply the benefits that producers would have to give up in order to provide sequestration.
However, identifying such costs is not simply a matter of comparing profits from different farming systems. Issues such as the degree of food security offered by a system, and the timing and amount of labour required, are also important components of the opportunity costs of producers, which in turn determine the prices at which they would be willing to supply carbon sequestration services.
In addition, the potential profits from sequestration will depend on the rate and total quantity of sequestration services that the producers can supply - factors that are largely determined by agro-ecological circumstances.
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