@article{Allwardt:118497,
      recid = {118497},
      author = {Allwardt, Jennifer},
      title = {Carbon Credit Payment Options for Agroforestry Projects in  Africa},
      address = {2011},
      number = {1097-2016-88565},
      series = {Dept. of Agricultural, Food, and Resource  Economics>Graduate Research Master's Degree Plan B Papers},
      pages = {90},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {The potential of using carbon offset credits from  agroforestry projects for farmers in developing areas has  become more prevalent in both Clean Development Mechanism  and voluntary carbon markets. Since the implementation of  the Kyoto Protocol, many international development  organizations have been interested in using the Clean  Development Mechanism (CDM) to help both mitigate CO2  emissions through agroforestry projects offsets and as a  poverty reduction tool. Few organizations that have begun  talking with farmers about planting trees for carbon offset  credits have been able to tell the farmers how much money  they would receive from their new tree growth or the costs  they will incur in doing so. For this study, a whole farm  budget toolkit was designed to help fill this gap and to  help evaluate payment methods for carbon offset credits in  agroforestry projects. This toolkit is intended to be used  by development assistance organizations and farmers  starting carbon credit programs. It gives a rough estimate  of payments based on a farmer’s or group’s unique  situation. For testing purposes, previous agroforestry  projects were entered into the toolkit to evaluate the  benefits accruing to farmers using data on carbon credit  payment methods for two previous agroforestry projects in  Africa. The toolkit was also field tested in Kenya with  individual farmers and a farmers’ group.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/118497},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.118497},
}