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incentives caused by such payments; concerns about the fairness of paying countries with
a poor record of protecting forests and not paying those that have protected their forests;
possible negative impacts on poor people, especially where they have insecure land and
forest tenure; and concerns about flooding the carbon market with cheap offsets.
• Many of the same challenges will affect payments for AFOLU activities. Many of these
concerns are likely to be less problematic than for REDD payments, except the size of
transaction costs relative to the value of payments per hectare. Given the low payments
per hectare possible for many AFOLU activities, projects will need to focus on promoting
profitable AFOLU activities by addressing other constraints to adoption, such as lack of
technical, financial and organizational capacity.
4.2.1. Opportunities
There are many opportunities to both mitigate and adapt to climate change in SSA through
sustainable land use and management approaches, such as those discussed in previous sections.
In the present environment, the major funding opportunities include
• increased use of the CDM to finance afforestation, reforestation and other projects that
promote sustainable land management 10 and meet the criteria of the CDM;
• increased use of voluntary carbon markets and the various carbon mitigation funds to test
and demonstrate project methodologies for a wider range of AFOLU activities in SSA,
such as agroforestry, conservation tillage, improved rangeland management, and REDD;
• increased use of adaptation funds to support SLM activities that have been prioritized in
African countries’ NAPAs;
• increased funding for SLM activities supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation
in SSA through the TerrAfrica partnership, UNCCD, CAADP, AGRA, and other publicly
and privately funded programs promoting sustainable land and water management in
SSA; and
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10 For example, CDM rural energy projects could potentially contribute to SLM by reducing demand for fuelwood,
thus reducing degradation of forests and woodlands caused by tree cutting for fuelwood. However, a review of the
CDM project pipeline and approved methodologies did not identify any projects or methodologies that would clearly
have this impact (UNEP Risoe 2009). The only approved methodologies for projects to improve household energy
efficiency are related to distribution of energy efficient light bulbs or manufacture of energy efficient refrigerators,
while projects and methodologies for improving the efficiency of energy supply are oriented towards industrial uses.!
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