Activities

Climate change mitigation and adaptation for rural development

Climate change work at ICRAF is carried out following a two-pronged approach:

The first is to develop methods to clarify the potential of specific agroforestry systems for climate change mitigation in specific agroclimatic conditions, and try to establish how benefits from such mitigation can serve as incentives for smallholder agroforestry.

The second is to investigate the potential of specific agroforestry systems for climate change adaptation in specific agroclimatic conditions. The role of agroforestry in building the biophysical and socio-economic resilience of ecological and societal systems will be highly emphasised

Some of our ongoing key projects

• Support to African policy makers in negotiating the Kyoto protocol

• Pilot Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) projects in western Kenya

• Climate change challenge programme

• Assessment of the buffering capacity of agroforestry

Testing the Clean Development Mechanism in Western Kenya

Climate Change Research at the World Agroforestry Center