Kenyan farmers earn carbon credits- The Star Kenya
About 60,000 farmers in Western Kenya have benefitted from carbon credits. This is through the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project that supports farming that is more productive, sustainable and climate-friendly by using improved farming techniques.
World Bank Country Director for Kenya, Diarietou Gaye, said this is an inspiring example of how agricultural practices that improve the productivity and livelihoods of smallholder, subsistence farmers can also be climate-smart.
CGIAR Climate's insight:
CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in East Africa regional programme leader, Dr James Kinyangi, says agriculture contributes 30 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, with 17 per cent directly emitted from farming practices such as tillage, harvesting and burning of biomass among others and 13 per cent from the change of land use such as forest land to agriculture use. - See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-152625/kenyan-farmers-earn-carbon-credits#sthash.WgH9VIT0.dpufCGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in East Africa regional programme leader, Dr James Kinyangi, says agriculture contributes 30 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, with 17 per cent directly emitted from farming practices such as tillage, harvesting and burning of biomass among others and 13 per cent from the change of land use such as forest land to agriculture use. - See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-152625/kenyan-farmers-earn-carbon-credits#sthash.WgH9VIT0.dpuf