Improving Rural Livelihood through Carbon Sequestration by Adopting Environmental Friendly Technology based on Agro-forestry Practices, India
Case Study C0261
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| Date | January 2007 |
| Agency | World Bank |
| Donor/support agency | Veda-Max JK Paper Mills |
| Project type | Implemented by agency |
| Context(s) | Productive landscape |
| Geographic coverage | India |
| Locality | Districts of Raigarda, Kalahandi, Koraput, Vizayanagaram, Srikakulum and Visakhapatnam, in AP and Orissa regions |
| Biodiversity focus | Ecosystem/landscape |
| Development focus | Local farmers |
| Conservation goals | To remove CO2 and to reforest degraded lands |
| Poverty reduction goals | To promote livelihoods of the resource poor farmers and to build capacity of the various stakeholders to benefit from global mechanisms. |
Summary
This project aims to mobilize and encourage resource poor farmers in AP and Orissa regions (India) to raise plantations of tree species with high rates of carbon removal in their farmlands. The interventions proposed under the project makes the villagers a strategic seller of carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol and also selling carbon in response to global demand for Certified Emissions Reductions under the Clean Development Mechanism. This will be a pilot initiative that aims at improving rural livelihoods through “Carbon Sequestration” by adopting environment friendly technologies based on agro-forestry (reforestation) practices. More specific objectives of the project are:
• to remove CO2 through plantation forestry in degraded areas
• to provide additional income and promote livelihoods of the resource poor farmers through carbon revenues;
• to reforest degraded lands and increase soil and moisture conservation;
• to reduce the dependence of the paper industry on natural forests and increase bio-diversity;
• to build capacity of the various stakeholders to benefit from global mechanisms.
Conservation impact
None/Not known
Poverty reduction impact
None/Not known
Strategy for Conservation/Poverty Linkages
Payments for conservation services
Reference 1
http://go.worldbank.org/PNX9LH3NZ0
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- World Bank (Organisation O0145)