This manual has been developed to help build the capacities of farmers, farmers groups, extension staff and project managers who are implementing agricultural carbon projects in Eastern Africa. The manual describes the steps for implementing an afforestation/reforestation voluntary carbon project...
Masiga, Moses
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Nantongo Kalunda, Pauline
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Kiguli, Lillian
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Ssempala, Annet
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Shames, Seth
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Heiner, Krista
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Miller, M
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[Capacity Building for Stakeholders in Smallholder Agricultural Carbon Projects in Eastern Africa]
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[Smallholder Agricultural Carbon Projects in Eastern Africa]
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Smallholder Agricultural Carbon Projects in Eastern Africa
Background: Smallholders have begun to take advantage of a growing pool of investment in climate change mitigation. Meanwhile, early movers in this area are working to develop innovative models that will allow projects to be nancially sustainable and scalable while bene ting local actors. This s...
Shames, Seth
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Heiner, Krista
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Kapukha, Martha
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Kiguli, Lillian
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Masiga, Moses
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Nantongo Kalunda, Pauline
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Ssempala, Annet
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Recha, John W.M.
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Wekesa, Amos
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[Building local institutional capacity to implement agricultural carbon projects: participatory action research with Vi Agroforestry in Kenya and ECOTRUST in Uganda]
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Building local institutional capacity to implement agricultural carbon projects: participatory action research with Vi Agroforestry in Kenya and ECOTRUST in Uganda
This paper describes an action research process undertaken with four African agricultural carbon projects—CARE’s Sustainable Agriculture in Changing Climate Initiative in Western Kenya; World Vision’s Assisted Natural Regeneration Project in Humbo, Ethiopia; Vi Agroforestry’s Western Kenya Agricu...
Shames, Seth
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Bernier, Quinn
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Masiga, Moses
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[Development of a participatory action research approach for four agricultural carbon projects in East Africa]
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Development of a participatory action research approach for four agricultural carbon projects in East Africa
Agriculture is central to the economy of Uganda; it employs about 82% of the national workforce and is responsible for generating over 20% of Uganda’s GDP (Oling, Rwabizambuga, and Warren- rodriguez 2014). Over 800,000 smallholder farmers in the Mbale, Manafwa and Bududa Districts (Mbale region, ...