Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems in Africa

Luedeling, Eike; Sileshi, Gudeta W.; Beedy, Tracy; Dietz, Johannes

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1630-8_4

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“…Recent studies show that AF practices in Africa have a huge potential to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide (Luedeling et al 2011). AF practices have considerable potential in helping solve some of Africa's main land-use problems (Cooper et al 1996;FAO 2013;Sanchez 1995) through the provision of a wide range of tree products for domestic use or sale (Franzel et al 2001).…”

Section: Socioeconomic and Environmental Benefits Of Afmentioning

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Determinants of agroforestry technology adoption in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Zerihun

Muchie

Worku

2014

Development Studies Research

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This study explores factors that affect the adoption of agroforestry (AF) technologies in 'Tsolo' and 'Lusikisiki' areas in O.R. Tambo district in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is based on empirical evidence gathered from households in the study areas. The aim and objective of the study are consistent with the strategic priorities of the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries. The study finds that agricultural farming experience, education level of the household head, a proxy variable for household wealth status, land size owned, number of livestock owned, pace of adoption of other agricultural technologies, the scale of slope of farm land, and percent of severely degraded farm land affect the adoption of AF technologies in the study areas significantly and with the higher magnitudes of the odds ratios. These variables need to be considered in all the initiatives by government and non-governmental organizations to promote AF as a strategy to realize integrated rural development in the study areas. These findings have policy implications to advance integrated sustainable rural development strategies. The local government in the study areas can use the promotion of AF technologies for multiple purposes, particularly as a tool toward rural poverty alleviation and climate change mitigation measures.

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Section: Socioeconomic and Environmental Benefits Of Afmentioning

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Determinants of agroforestry technology adoption in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Zerihun

Muchie

Worku

2014

Development Studies Research

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“…Conversion of agricultural land to agroforestry has also been reported to entail substantial co-benefits for farmers, such as enhanced soil fertility, resilience to weather extremes and additional sources of farm income (Ajayi et al 2007;Garrity 2004;Sanchez 1995). Tree-based agricultural systems in many parts of the world have been shown to have higher carbon stocks than treeless farming systems (Luedeling et al 2011;Nair et al 2009a, b) and to provide more environmental services (Jose 2009;Paustian et al 1998).…”

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Carbon sequestration potential of parkland agroforestry in the Sahel

Luedeling

Neufeldt

2012

Climatic Change

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Establishing parkland agroforestry on currently treeless cropland in the West African Sahel may help mitigate climate change. To evaluate its potential, we used climatically suitable ranges for parklands for 19 climate scenarios, derived by ecological niche modeling, for estimating potential carbon stocks in parkland and treeless cropland. A biocarbon business model was used to evaluate profitability of hypothetical Terrestrial Carbon Projects (TCPs), across a range of farm sizes, farm numbers, carbon prices and benefit sharing mechanisms. Using climate analogues, we explored potential climate change trajectories for selected locations. If mature parklands covered their maximum range, carbon stocks in Sahelian productive land would be about 1,284 Tg, compared to 725 Tg in a treeless scenario. Due to slow increase rates of total system carbon by 0.4 Mg C ha −1 a −1 , most TCPs at carbon prices that seem realistic today were not feasible, or required the participation of large numbers of farmers. For small farms, few TCP scenarios were feasible, and low Net Present Values for farmers made it unlikely that carbon payments would motivate many to participate in TCPs, unless additional benefits were provided. Climate analogue locations indicated an uncertain climate trajectory for the Sahel, but most scenarios projected increasing aridity and reduced suitability for parklands. The potentially severe impacts of climate change on Sahelian ecosystems and the uncertain profitability of TCPs make the Sahel highly risky for carbon investments. Given the likelihood of degrading environmental conditions, the search for appropriate adaptation strategies should take precedence over promoting mitigation activities.

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“…It is important to mention that the potential as envisaged in developed countries would be very difficult to realize in developing world due to the increasing pressure on land resources for multiple products. The biophysical potential would remain different than the achievable potential of AF systems (Luedeling et al 2011) because the variation in different agroforestry systems is governed by structure/functions of different associated components and prevailing environment including management/socio-economic factors (Plieninger 2011;Nair et al 2010;Thomas et al 2010). Nair (2012) have highlighted a number of issues (methodologies-sampling, measurements, computation, analysis, interpretation, technicalities in developing projects, etc.)…”

Section: Carbon Sequestration (Cs) In Agroforestry (Af) Systemmentioning

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“…(Jones and Lal 1989;Newman 1997;Chandra 2011). Recently poplar based AF systems have been assessed extensively for carbon farming (Gera et al 2006(Gera et al , 2011Chauhan et al 2010aChauhan et al , b, 2012bChauhan et al , 2015Rizvi et al 2011;Sharma and Sharma 2011;Benbi et al 2012;Arora et al 2013;Kanime et al 2013), therefore, based on the analysis of Luedeling et al (2011), studies have been used to analyze the theoretical and practically achievable potential for carbon sequestration in poplar based agroforestry plantations.…”

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Carbon sequestration potential in agroforestry system in India: an analysis for carbon project

2015

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India is a large developing country with more than seventy per cent population earning their livelihood from diverse land use activities. Changing climate is a worry for the nation but the country cannot afford to slow down the developing/developmental activities. Landuse activities in irrigated agro-ecosystems have started shifting from traditional agriculture to smart agriculture to meet the country's food requirements and secure livelihood security. But this shift has been achieved at the cost of natural resources and degradation of environment. Realizing the benefits of climate smart agriculture in the changing scenario, farmers are adapting slowly to it but appropriate details of climate vulnerability and package of climate smart agriculture including tree-crop interaction are very limited for adoption. It is important to assess the strengths and weaknesses of carbon sequestration (CS) projects with respect to their practical potential rather than biophysical potential for registration under clean development mechanism for additional income. There is a need to address the technical, economic, legal and social issues of the adopters because they have to lock their land for long time for CS projects, therefore confidence building measures are essentially required to make them aware/motivate for adoption of trees on their farms for mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and adaptation against changing climate. However, the potential of agroforestry (AF) systems has not been reflected in registration of CS projects due to lack of best practices in AF, procedures and methodologies for carbon accounting, etc., which requires thorough review to develop appropriate models for payments of environmental benefits. Poplar based AF has been considered here as an example to understand the process of accounting CS and its practical applicability for environmental payments.

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Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems in Africa

Cited by 48 publications

References 64 publications

Determinants of agroforestry technology adoption in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Determinants of agroforestry technology adoption in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Carbon sequestration potential of parkland agroforestry in the Sahel

Carbon sequestration potential in agroforestry system in India: an analysis for carbon project

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