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Fiddling with Soil Carbon Markets while Africa Burns

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Soil carbon capture or sequestration is the process of transferring carbon dioxide from the atmosphere back into the soil through crop residues. International organizations are now promoting the selling of carbon offset credits based on the carbon that can be stored in soil as means of altering climate change risks. Whether such a carbon trade would benefit or burden smallholder farmers in developing countries needs to be critically examined. This paper published by Action Aid, finds substantial negative impacts which not only burden poor farmers but are particularly unfavourable for women farmers in Africa.

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