Carwg meeting in bulawayo vi agroforestry presentation

Agricultural Carbon Projects
Development and Implementation: Case
of Vi Agroforestry
Peter Wachira

Conservation Agriculture Regional Working Group (CARWG) annual meeting in
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 30th – 31st October 2014
• Financed by Foundation VI planterar
trad
• Headquarters in stockholm Sweden
• Registered in four East African
countries(Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
and Rwanda
• Started its activities in East Africa in
1983
• Financial support is from SIDA and
over 60,000 individual private donors in
Sweden.

Area of coverage
Operates in Lake
Victoria basin
Target Group
Small-scale farmers
with an average 0.5
to 5 acres of
farmland and depend
on family labour

Carbon Projects
Project Name Country Method
Emiti Nibwo Bulora
(Trees Sustain Life)
http://197.248.124.114/vi-
agroforestry/jtssc261_00420082100olof999.php?correct_call=1
Tanzania Plan Vivo
Kenya Agricultural Carbon
Project
Kenya VCS:SALM
Smallholder dairy
development and
watershed protection
in Mt Elgon
Kenya VCS: SALM
Proposed: Dairy
and watershed
method

Kenya Agricultural
Carbon Project

• Reach 60,000 farmers, each managing
between 0.5-08.ha of land; mixed cropping
systems
• 45,000Ha of land under SALM
• Expected to deliver 1.2m tCO2 in 20 years
• Sell ER’s to Bio-carbon fund at $4 per ton
• 60% of ER’s proceeds channeled to farmers
the remaining used for extension.
Key Statistics

Initial Components of the Project
FED
VS&LASALM
SALM: Sustainable
Agricultural Land use
Management
FED: Farm Enterprise
Development
VS&LA: Village Savings and
Loan Associations
Extension

• Initiated with support from SIDA and
BioCarbon Fund of the Worldbank
• Necessitated development of a new
methodology (VM0017: Adoption of
Sustainable Agricultural Land
Management)
• Incorporated monitoring for Soil Organic
Carbon
Carbon Financing Component

SALM practices
Improved fallow

• Project Area: Kisumu & Kitale
• Only farms within the project boundary
are eligible to benefit from the carbon
project
• The project area generally is the sum of
all farms where SALM practices are
adopted over time. Each farm of a
carbon farmer is tracked using a GPS
Spatial Boundaries

Mapping
Done by Resource
Person or Field Staff
Require training on GPS
and GIS
All farmers land where
SALM is implemented
are tracked (Maps)

Monitoring in these conditions?

SALM activities that landowner and project
developer can pursue in order to create carbon
offset
Farmer Self Assessment procedure which the
adopted SALM practice and respective carbon
tock change are monitored
Activity adoption monitoring approach. The
amount of carbon sequestered is calculated using
the RothC model
What is Monitored

The Farmer Based Monitoring System: Co
benefits for the farmer as they are able to
manage records in their farms
M&E is not sole unit of data management but also
every individual farmer, group leadership as well
as field staff. Three tools are used for main data
collection namely the farmer commitment form,
group records and the permanent farm
monitoring.
Adopted Method: ABMS

• Field surveyors are trained in all aspects of the
field data collection procedures i.e. filling of
Group data, PFM, mapping and checking for
errors.
• Staff follows up regularly to verify
implementation of activities by the farmers
• FO trains Groups to have follow-up teams
• The FO are constantly providing support to
farmers to understand the farmer commitment
form and fill it correctly
QA/QC Procedures

Emission Reduction Computation
Farmer Group
Monitoring
SALM Project
activities
Activity Baseline
tCO2
RothC Soil carbon
modelling
Available
datasets
ABMS Monitoring
System
Local emission
factors
Activity data &
adoption rate
Input
data
Input
data
Soil organic carbon
change
Vi Permanent Farm
Monitoring
Based on the SALM

1,245
1,477
1,703
2,093
2,223
520
643
754
855 890
415
519
659
977 950
-
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
2009(Baseline) 2010 2011 2012 2013
KgPerHectare
Year
Crop Productivity Trend
Maize Beans Sorghum
Main Benefit of SALM

Landscape Changes
2002201020112014

• 24,788tCO2 have been issued after verification
• $53,542 distributed to farmer groups
• Methodology has been approved by VCS
• A course on SALM monitoring initiated by
Worldbank Institute
(http://einstitute.worldbank.org/ei/course/developing-and-
monitoring-agriculture-carbon-projects)
Other Achievement Achievements

• Lost SIDA funding for the project
• Complex monitoring required and field
mapping required
• Maintaining groups cohesion and SALM
practices require more extension than
anticipated
• Verification is a costly exercise requiring
accumulation of ER’s before verification and
issuance
Challenges

Developing Agricultural
Carbon Projects

• Bio-carbon fund model: Requires the project
developer to finance the project including
carbon monitoring. Payment done goes to
farmers
• Livelihood fund model: Finances the project for
emission reduction as a co-benefit. Issued
ER’s are transferred to livelihood fund and
farmers are not paid directly
Agricultural Carbon Funding Models

a) Land is either cropland or grassland
b) The project does not occur on wetlands;
c) The land is degraded and will continue to be
degraded or continue to degrade;
d) Area of land under cultivation is constant or
increasing
e) Forest land is constant or decreasing
f) Studies to show Roth-C model is appropriate
Applicability Condition

• Solid land tenure system
• Mapping of the project boundary
• Development of PDD
• Baseline survey
• Ability to implement the project in a changing
environment
Other Key Requirements

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