Identification of Agricultural Mitigation Projects in Developing Countries
At the beginning of 2010, under the Agricultural Mitigation Programme of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a new five-year project was launched on Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA), with initial funding from the Finish Government. One of the activities of the project is to test in practice the integration of agricultural techniques which mitigate climate change into the current practices of smallholders in developing countries.
As a first step MICCA aims to identify what existing agricultural mitigation projects there are in developing countries (including agroforestry) to clarify which farming systems are already covered, which technologies are applied, how mitigation “efficient” these are and which remuneration systems are used for the farmers.
MICCA will analyse this information in terms of covered/missing farming systems and agro-ecological zones, and in a second step identify a number of existing agricultural projects in these “gap areas” that could incorporate a mitigation component and be used to broaden the range of agricultural mitigation activities being evaluated worldwide.
In a third step MICCA wants to then establish, in collaboration with existing initiatives and projects, five agricultural mitigation pilot projects which cover different farming systems, agro-ecological zones and geographic regions. The pilots are planned to have a three-year duration.
Thus, we would like to invite you, if you are involved in or know of any ongoing agricultural mitigation project in a developing country, to send information on this/these project(s) to MICCA. The information will be compiled into a working paper that will be shared with you. This as an opportunity to promote smallholder mitigation strategies and prevent experience and knowledge from being lost.
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