Fiddling with Soil Carbon Markets While Africa Burns…
Tagged with: Climate change, COP17, HungerFREE, Small-holder farming, Soil carbon markets
To address both the need for more finance for agriculture and the climate crisis, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), among others, are promoting selling of carbon offset credits based on the carbon that can be stored in soil.
This report critically examines the basic assumptions of the World Bank about soil carbon markets and explores alternative approaches to the problems of climate change, emphasising the need to support smallholder farmers who are the most vulnerable.
Stabinsky, D., Marcatto, C., Solomon, I., Singh, H. & Ambrose, S. (2011). Fiddling with Soil Carbon Markets While Africa Burns…. ActionAid International.
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