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Climate smart agriculture, land use, and food security
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This collection contains baseline data and reports on climate mitigation and adaptation impacts and potential of food security interventions.
This includes documents related to Ethiopia's food security initiative, the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP).
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Food-security interventions are a vehicle for climate change mitigation
Solomon, Dawit; Woolf, Dominic; Jirka, Stefan; DeGloria, Steve; Lehmann, Johannes; Milne, Eleanor; Easter, Mark; Belay, Berhanu; Ambaw, Gebermedihin; Getahun, Kefelgn; Ahmed, Milkyas (2015)Chronic food insecurity and land degradation are global issues. The Ethiopian food security program tackles endemic chronic food insecurity through a program* that links food aid to land and ecosystem restoration projects ... -
Carbon finance opportunities for Ethiopia’s PSNP
Tefera, Mulugeta; Strickland, Alastair; Lind, Jeremy; Woolf, Dominic; Jirka, Stefan; Solomon, Dawit (2015)This policy brief is one of a series produced by the Climate Smart Initiative (CSI), a two-year action research project (2013–15) designed to improve how Ethiopia’s national rural safety net deals with climate change ... -
Climate finance and carbon markets for Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP): Executive Summary for Policymakers.
Jirka, Stefan; Woolf, Dominic; Solomon, Dawit; Lehmann, Johannes (2015)Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is recognized as a model public works safety net program, which provides food and cash payments to households suffering from food insecurity in return for labor that builds ... -
Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP): Soil carbon and fertility impact assessment
Solomon, Dawit; Woolf, Dominic; Jirka, Stefan; DeGloria, Stephen; Belay, Berhanu; Ambaw, Gebermedehin; Getahun, Kefelegn; Ahmed, Milkiyas; Ahmed, Zia; Lehmann, Johannes (2015)Ethiopia’s climate smart initiative (CSI) aims to integrate the implications of climate change into the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) activities, and systems to strengthen this important social safety net program, ... -
Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) national baseline database (NBD): Georeferenced site, management, topography, climate, soil carbon, soil fertility indicators, yield and low-cost soil mid-infrared (MIR) analysis results
Solomon, Dawit; Woolf, Dominic; Jirka, Stefan; DeGloria, Stephen; Belay, Berhanu; Ambaw, Gebermedehin; Getahun, Kefelegn; Ahmed, Milkiyas; Ahmed, Zia; Lehmann, Johannes (2015)Ethiopia’s climate smart initiative (CSI) aims to integrate the implications of climate change into Productive Safety Net Programs (PSNP) activities, and systems to strengthen this important social safety net program, and ... -
Climate Finance for Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP): Comprehensive report on accessing climate finance and carbon markets to promote socially and environmentally sustainable public works social safety net programs
Unknown author (2015)Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)—recognized as a model public works safety-net program—active for over ten years, provides food and cash payments to households suffering from food insecurity in return for ... -
Guide to Developing Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land-Use (AFOLU) Carbon Market Projects under Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)
Jirka, Stefan; Woolf, Dominic; Solomon, Dawit; Lehmann, Johannes (2015)This report outlines the general steps required for development of a carbon project intended for sale of carbon credits via a carbon offset program, whether compliance or voluntary. While there are differences among the ... -
Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety-Net Program (PSNP)
Woolf, Dominic; Jirka, Stefan; Milne, Eleanor; Easter, Mark; DeGloria, Stephen; Solomon, Dawit; Lehmann, Johannes (2015)Food security programs designed to alleviate poverty, of which Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) is a model example, are contributing also to climate-change mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa. PSNP’s climate-smart ...