Carbon Interventions in Agriculture: why carbon finance is critical to the transition to sustainable agriculture and land use
Agriculture, forestry and other land use produce around 11.9 billion tonnes of CO₂e a year, roughly a fifth of global emissions. Farmers are already under pressure from shrinking public funding and a changing climate. Carbon finance can help close the gap, but only if projects are designed around how farms actually work.
In this white paper, EcoSecurities sets out a whole-farm approach to carbon finance. It shows how interventions across land, infrastructure and shared systems can combine into credible projects that bring in new revenue for farmers.
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- A whole-farm framework: six interconnected farm units, from productive, preserved and degraded land to farmhouse, production processes and crosscutting enablers. Each one is mapped to the carbon methodologies that apply to it.
- Real projects from around the world: case studies from Argentina, Paraguay, Zambia, Timor-Leste, Kenya, Morocco and Malawi, covering soil carbon, REDD+, agroforestry, clean cookstoves, solar irrigation, biochar and biogas.
- How to make it work for smallholders: how aggregation, cooperatives, programmes of activities and blended finance bring down costs and open carbon markets to small farms.
- What comes next: the role of digital monitoring, remote sensing and Article 6 in scaling high-integrity agricultural carbon projects.
Who the report for
Policymakers, investors, agribusinesses, development organisations and project developers working on climate and food systems.
Download the full white paper here.
