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Promoting carbon sequestration and payment for ecosystem service schemes: The case for rangelands
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Presented by Jimmy Smith to a meeting of the Norwegian Climate Network, Oslo, 31 August 2011
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Promoting carbon sequestration and payment for ecosystem service schemes: The case for rangelands
- There are opportunities for rangeland management to contribute to:
- Carbon stocks
- Biodiversity
- Water resources
- Incentives for good management need to contribute to livelihoods
- Biodiversity
- Water and sediment management
- Under saturation offers scope to sequester carbon:
- Improved grazing management
- Management to build organic matter
- Managing fire
- Incentives structure for good rangeland management
- Assessing and rewarding good management
- Co-benefits (water, soil health, biodiversity)
- Mechanisms for funding
- Research and payments
- Institutional –local and global
- Equity
- Collective action vs. individual
- “Gene-banks” for animal and forage diversity
- High level of endemism
- Over 40 community based conservancies in Kenya (also southern Africa); I million ha
- Reservoirs
- Hydro plants
- Flood prevention
- There are opportunities for rangeland management to contribute to:
- Carbon stocks
- Biodiversity
- Water resources
- Incentives for good management need to contribute to livelihoods
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