This brief addresses the major challenges and opportunities to financing climate change mitigation and adaptation pathways for smallholder farmers in developing nations. It underlines the need for an innovative and integrated approach to climate finance that can connect rural farmers to public an...
Foster K
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Franks P
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Diro, R.
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Munden, L
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Anand M
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Climate Finance for Agriculture and Livelihoods]
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Climate Finance for Agriculture and Livelihoods
In the Brazilian savannas, or Cerrados the rapid advance in agriculture and cattle ranching is affecting soils through, for example, accelerated erosion and depletion of soil organic matter (SOM). Changes in soil microbial biomass are good indicators of changes in SOM. We therefore assessed the e...
Renz, TE
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Ayarza, Miguel Angel
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Resck, DVS
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Zech, W.
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[Microbial biomass, microbial activity, and carbon pools under different land-use systems in the Brazilian cerrados]
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Microbial biomass, microbial activity, and carbon pools under different land-use systems in the Brazilian cerrados
Biocarbon projects can connect climate finance to smallholder farmers and can provide considerable benefits to improved productivity, land health and income, market access, institutional stability and, ultimately, food security and reduced poverty for asset-poor rural communities. While most bioc...
Foster K
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Neufeldt, Henry
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[Biocarbon projects in agroforestry: lessons from the past for future development]
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Biocarbon projects in agroforestry: lessons from the past for future development