Financing climate change mitigation in agriculture: assessment of investment cases

More than one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, forestry, and land-use change. As with other sectors of the economy, agriculture should also contribute to meeting countries’ emission reduction targets. Transformation of agriculture to low-carbon food systems requ...

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Published inEnvironmental research letters Vol. 16; no. 12; pp. 124044 - 124060
Main Authors Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Sapkota, Tek B, Sander, Bjoern O, Arango, Jacobo, Nelson, Katherine M, Wilkes, Andreas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.12.2021
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Agribusiness
Agricultural development
Agricultural economics
Agriculture
Best practice
Budgets
Climate change
Climate change mitigation
Climate finance
Emissions
Emissions control
Farmers
Finance
financial institutions
Financing
Forestry
Global climate
Greenhouse gases
Land use
mitigation
Private sector
stakeholders
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Summary:More than one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, forestry, and land-use change. As with other sectors of the economy, agriculture should also contribute to meeting countries’ emission reduction targets. Transformation of agriculture to low-carbon food systems requires much larger investments in low emission development options from global climate finance, domestic budgets, and the private sector. Innovative financing mechanisms and instruments that integrate climate finance, agriculture development budgets, and private sector investment can improve and increase farmers’ and other value chain actors’ access to finance while delivering environmental, economic, and social benefits. Investment cases assessed in this study provide rich information to design and implement mitigation options in agriculture through unlocking additional sources of public and private capital, strengthening the links between financial institutions, farmers, and agribusiness, and coordination of actions across multiple stakeholders. These investment cases expand support for existing agricultural best practices, integrate forestry and agricultural actions to avoid land-use change, and support the transition to market-based solutions.
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ISSN:1748-9326
1748-9326
DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ac3605