This project also under the title Livelihood diversifying potential of livestock based carbon sequestration options in pastoral and agro pastoral systems in Africa aimed at providing a body of evidence to guide policy makers and planners from national and international governmental and nongovernmental agencies with view to develop the potential of PES systems for carbon sequestration and reduction and towards the development of supportive policy and institutional arrangements.

ICRAF lead activity 1.1 and contributed as follows:

1. Description of solid and measurement of soil carbon stocks at sites and assessment impact grazing and fire in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia

2. Investigate albedo effects of grazing and fire management The aim of these Carbon studies is to collect information on soil and land surface characteristics for experimental sites and larger areas in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso.

This work was done so as to

i) Assess the impact of grazing and fire on soil Carbon stocks, and

ii) Sample soil Carbon and land surface characteristics to allow production of maps revealing spatial variation on soil Carbon across a larger area.
 

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