Overcoming barriers to low carbon agriculture and forest restoration in Brazil: The Rural Sustentável project

Peter Newton, Angelo Eduardo Angel Gomez, Suhyun Jung, Timothy Kelly, Thiago de Araújo Mendes, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Júlio César dos Reis, Renato de Aragão Ribeiro Rodrigues, Richard Tipper, Dan van der Horst and Cristy Watkins

World Development Perspectives, 2016, vol. 4, issue C, 5-7

Abstract: The Rural Sustentável project aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, reduce poverty, and promote sustainable rural development in the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes: by restoring deforested and degraded land, and by facilitating and promoting the uptake of low carbon agricultural technologies. The project offers farmers a) access to information, through demonstration units and field days; b) access to technical assistance, through in-person and online training and capacity-building; c) access to rural credit, through collaborative farmer-technician partnerships, and d) financial incentives, in the form of results based financing to successful farmer-technician teams. The project is still in its implementation stage, but the innovative design and theory of change of this project offer insights into possible mechanisms for promoting forest restoration on private lands in the tropics.

Keywords: Greenhouse gas emissions; Results-based finance; Livelihoods; Rural credit; Smallholders; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2016.11.011

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