Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Agroforestry systems are increasingly recognized for their ability to sequester greenhouse gases and to buffer farmers against the impacts of climate change. ICRAF continues to play three roles in the area of climate change mitigation and adaptation:

• ICRAF leads the CGIAR inter-centre working group on climate change, which the Centre Directors’ Committee endorsed to become a system-wide initiative of the CGIAR in 2005
• ICRAF provides expert technical support to developing country governments and negotiators on the practical implications of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) / Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) guidelines and ways that those guidelines could be modified to the benefit of smallholder farmers
• ICRAF conducts empirical and synthetic studies of the potential of agroforestry to sequester carbon and mitigate against climate fluctuations associated with global warming