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Workshop in Kenya on the politics of agriculture in the climate talks

The Africa Biodiversity Network, ActionAid Kenya, the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance and IATP held a workshop in Thika, Kenya in late October to discuss what is at stake for food producers and African agriculture as African governments head to the global climate talks in Durban in a few weeks to decide whether to launch an agriculture work program.

Soil carbon mirage debated in Panama

 IATP’s Karen Hansen-Kuhn was in Panama City last week for negotiations on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Elusive Promises of the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project

Prefaced, summarized and excerpted by Steve Suppan from research in progress by Shefali Sharma.

Submission by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy on the cost-effectiveness of "market-based mechanisms" and their promotion of mitigation actions

The focus on market mechanisms is a dangerous distraction from the real work of finding agricultural practices that reduce emissions while ensuring food security, environmental integrity and rural livelihoods.

Trading carbon emissions: Turning a liability into an asset?

Accountants are trying to decide whether credits for trading carbon dioxide are assets or whether they are liabilities unless and until firms comply with progressively more stringent annual limits on their greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S.

Agriculture and Our Atmosphere

The soil has been a source of agricultural carbon dioxide emissions over the past century and more so now because of industrial farming methods. This article is a discussion of solutions and why properly managed soil carbon provides many agricultural and environmental benefits. This article was published in the February/March 2000 Newsletter of the Wedge Community Co-op.