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News : POLICY BRIEF: ROLE OF CLIMATE FINANCE IN AGRICULTURE

28 November 2010

Climate finance offers an opportunity to strengthen food security and drive climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.To assess this opportunity, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) has commissioned a consortium led by Climate Focus partnering with UNIQUE forestry consultants and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis to examine how climate finance for the agriculture sector can incentivize climate mitigation and food security in the developing world. During the next four months, our work will: (i) model global agricultural mitigation opportunities; (ii) analyze existing and emerging climate finance related-instruments, mechanisms and policies that create incentives for agricultural GHG mitigation; and (iii) conduct a corresponding assessment of agricultural mitigation practices in selected regions, particularly in relation to smallholders and food security. A policy brief is available at the link below, and a summary of this work will be made available through publications in 2011.

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