Compensation for farmers’ carbon sequestration

Opinion November 16, 2007

Lennart Båge, President of IFAD, proposes expanding the concept of carbon trading to include compensation for the rural poor for their contributions to soil conservation and avoided deforestation.

Lennart Båge is President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

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