Climate Smart Agriculture
Improving food security by safeguarding Cocoa yields, agroforestry and climate resilience through access to information on good agricultural practices incorporated into climate smart approaches.
Contribution to the sustainable development goals
Goals
1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goals
12
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goals
13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goals
17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
Agroforestry as a strategy for carbon sequestration
During the past three decades, agroforestry has become recognized the world over as an integrated approach to sustainable land use because of its production and environmental benefits. Its recent recognition as a greenhouse gas–mitigation strategy under the Kyoto Protocol has earned it added attention as a strategy for biological carbon (C) sequestration. The perceived potential is based on the premise that the greater efficiency of integrated systems in resource (nutrients, light, and water) capture and utilization than single-species systems will result in greater net C sequestration. Available estimates of C-sequestration potential of agroforestry systems are derived by combining information on the aboveground, time-averaged C stocks and the soil C values; but they are generally not rigorous.
We do this project by introducing indigenous trees like maesopsis emini, cordia africana, terminalia superba, acacia tortilis/mangium
