Indonesia’s cattle biodigester system is a highly effective ‘green’ technology, radically improving smallholders’ quality of life both in the household and via the farm enterprise: the main product, biogas, is a smokeless cooking fuel and the by-product, bioslurry, is a high-value fertiliser. The...
Vorley, Bill
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Porras, Ina
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Amrein, Alexandra
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[The Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?]
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The Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?
In Guatemala, we study a coffee project claiming carbon credits through its organic practices. Compared to conventional large-scale coffee production, the organic practices of smallholder farmers in the north of Guatemala provide a number of environmental benefits, including capturing and storing...
Amrein, Alexandra
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Porras, Ina
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Vorley, Bill
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[Organic coffee production and carbon sequestration in Guatemala: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?]
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Organic coffee production and carbon sequestration in Guatemala: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?
This report analyses a coffee and reforestation project in Peru led by a large coffee cooperative (Norandino) and a local NGO (Progreso). An ‘upstream–downstream’ approach links two groups of farmers in a climate-change mitigation and adaptation project: poor subsistence armers in the upper parts...
Amrein, Alexandra
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Porras, Ina
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Vorley, Bill
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[Reforestation, coffee and carbon in Sierra Piura, Peru: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?]
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Reforestation, coffee and carbon in Sierra Piura, Peru: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?
The Kenya National Domestic Biogas Programme promotes the installation of biodigesters in agricultural smallholdings across the country. Biogas provides on-demand energy in the home and is demonstrably better for the environment as it reduces dependence on firewood, and better for health as a smo...
Porras, Ina
,
Vorley, Bill
,
Amrein, Alexandra
,
[The Kenya National Domestic Biogas Programme: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?]
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The Kenya National Domestic Biogas Programme: can carbon financing promote sustainable agriculture?