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Improving Livelihoods and Mitigating Climate Change through Nature-Based Solutions on the Lands assigned to Tribals under Forest Rights Act, 2006

The proposed VCS project will mobilize resource-poor forest dwellers and forest-dependent communities to practice agroforestry on degraded forest lands assigned to them under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006. These lands are currently under subsistence agriculture. Various environment-friendly technology-based agroforestry practices, Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), and Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) will be promoted for sustainable …

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Mitigating Climate Change and Enhancing Rural Livelihoods through Plantations raised to provide Raw Material to the Paper Industry

The successful CDM project titled “Improving Rural Livelihoods Through Carbon Sequestration by Adopting Environment-Friendly Technology-based Agroforestry Practices” is being replicated under the Verified Carbon Standard in partnership with JKPL, Raygada, and JKPL, Sirpur Kaghaznagar. Smallholder farmers are being encouraged to plant Eucalyptus, Casuarina, and Subabul on their degraded lands which will enable them to earn …

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Acorn Project

VCCSL has entered into an MoU with Rabobank’s  Agroforestry Carbon Removal Units for the Organic Restoration of Nature (Acorn) framework to connect the smallholders with International voluntary carbon markets. “Acorn” generates an additional income stream for Agroforestry projects in developing countries by monetising the removals from agroforestry interventions. 80% of the minimum carbon price of …

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Improving Rural Livelihoods Through Carbon Sequestration by Adopting Environment-Friendly Technology based Agroforestry Practices

It is a UNFCCC-registered CDM project with ID: 4531 (https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/TUEV-SUED1298895593.56). For the first time in India and South East Asia, additional revenue from the sale of carbon credits over an area of 1605 ha was successfully delivered to 1590 farmers in the backward Indian districts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.  The project mobilizes and encourages …

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