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Mitigation in Agriculture and Rural Areas

Side Event COP 14

Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Agriculture

Poznan, Wednesday 3 December 2008

Fox Room 13:00 – 15:00.

Background:

Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, including land-use change, contribute over 30 percent of the current annual total greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural occupies some 1.9 billion hectares (over 55% of non-forested land is under agriculture), of which a third is arable, and the rest is under permanent pastures and meadows. These large land areas offer potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by both changing agricultural practices and soil conservation measures.

Most of the world’s poor live from agriculture in developing countries. They are not major contributors of GHGs, but they are undoubtedly hit hardest by climate change. Ensuring climate change mitigation through more efficient agricultural practices and prudent land use decisions should form part of the various mitigation options available to countries. These practices are often also essential for increased sustainable production increases in agriculture. To ensure adoption of such practices, enabling mechanisms will need to be put in place. This might include policies, technology transfer, as well as financing and incentive mechanisms. Access of small farmers and rural communities to the latter, including carbon markets, has so far been extremely limited. Increasing their access to these mechanisms could enable them to contribute to the reduction of GHG emissions, while increasing their resilience to climate change impacts, as well as enhancing the value of land assets through increased soil productivity and trees in case of agroforestry. Technically sound methodologies to monitor GHG reductions and co-benefits will be needed.

Objective:

This side event organised jointly by FAO and IFAD is aimed at creating awareness about the mitigation potential of agriculture, and some of the required enabling means to achieve this potential.[its implications for small farmers and rural communities in the poorest countries].

The structure of the event

Internationally renowned experts will be invited to make presentations on selected crop and livestock management practices and financing/incentive mechanisms with potential benefits for climate change mitigation and food security. These will be followed by an interactive discussion, with audience participation, to allow for a broader range of views and experiences to be shared.

Expected output is a better understanding of the potential role of agriculture in climate change mitigation with tentative answers to questions like:

What kind of financing and incentive mechanisms are needed to enable this potential to be realized?
How can a large number of smallholder farmers in developing countries acess these?
How can we ensure that these mechanisms generate co-benefits such as food security, poverty reduction and healthy agroecosystems?

Participants:

Muhammad Ibrahim, CATIE; Jorgen Olesen University of Aarhus; Brent Swallow ICRAF; Peter Holmgren, Wendy Mann, Caterina Batello, FAO; Atiqur Rahman, IFAD.

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