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The eligible practices have been divided into five key activity groups: nutrient management, land and soil management, plants with improved nitrogen use efficiency, livestock breeding, and livestock nutrition. These practices should be encouraged within financed projects where relevant. This indicator was updated in August 2023.<\/p>\n","methodology":"<p>This indicator should be calculated as the sum of reduced CO2 emissions due to changes to on farm practices (e.g. reduced fertilizer use) as a result of the financed project. Changes in greenhouse gas emissions from improved agricultural practices can only be estimated based on assessment of the extent of these improvements. There is very little scope to involve remotely sensed data in such an indicator.<\/p>\n<p>Key agricultural practices to consider are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nutrient management: Good nutrient management can bring several important benefits such as: minimizing GHG emissions, reducing the incidence of diffuse water pollution, and helping farmers save money through optimizing productivity.<\/li>\n<li>Land and soil management mitigation practices: These methods help preserve good soil structure and prevent erosion and compaction, both of which can lead to GHG emissions. Such practices include no tillage and usage of cover crop practices.<\/li>\n<li>Plants with improved nitrogen use efficiency: Using such plants reduces the need for manufactured nitrogen use and potentially reduces soil maintenance costs. Additionally, this practice can potentially offer improved nutritional characteristics of fodder.<\/li>\n<li>Livestock Breeding: Breeding practices can play an important role in herd productivity and efficiency, which are factors that directly influence GHG emissions. A recommended practice is to make use of improved genetic resources in livestock.<\/li>\n<li>Livestock nutrition: livestock feeding regimes also play an important role in productivity and efficiency, which are factors that impact GHG emissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To calculate avoided emissions, impact managers should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Sum the reported area in the specified improved management practice for the identified year<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Pull the relevant emission or removal factor based on climate, soil type, and management practice from a lookup table (eg. IPCC Guidelines (2006)) or the EX-ACT tool<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Estimate emissions or removals by multiplying the area by the appropriate emission factor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Sum across practices and climate categories as relevant<\/li>\n<li><strong>Step 5:<\/strong> Calculate the uncertainty of the final estimate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This approach is based on periodic reporting of management practices per area without intensive data collection. This approach can be closely linked to existing advisory and extension systems. The assessment should include georeferenced activity data using global available land use datasets and lookup tables. Lookup tables provide default emission and removal factors that can be applied on an ongoing basis to reported areas under specified agricultural practices, including grazing.<\/p>\n<p>One example of existing international soil carbon lookup tables is the IPCC Guidelines (2006) and empirical models. Another is the FAO Ex-Ante Carbon Balance Tool (EX-ACT), which is a spreadsheet tool pre-populated with IPCC Tier 1 and 2 estimates for emissions and removals from changes in land-use and agricultural practices. A without-project scenario is required to understand the net impact of the financed project on emissions. This tool includes methods for estimating impacts on emissions of changes in area and management options for crop production, grassland management, livestock numbers, inputs and aquaculture.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: This methodology is adapted from the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tropicalforestalliance.org\/assets\/IFACC\/IFACC_Impact-Indicators-Guidelines_Final-v2.pdf?vid=3\"><em>IFACC Impact Indicators Guidelines (2022).<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","communication":"<p>The indicator is appropriate for providing an indicative estimate of GHG emissions reduced through improved on farm practices associated with the project.<\/p>\n<p>The indicator can be reported as total tCO2e or per tonne of commodity produced.<\/p>\n<p>The methodology presented in this KPI is not appropriate for developing carbon credits. Where carbon credits are the desired objective, relevant methodologies, such as that developed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/verra.org\/project\/vcs-program\/\">Verified Carbon Standard<\/a>, should be applied.<\/p>\n","considerations":[{"text":"Useful for funds investing in projects with a focus on climate mitigation through shifting agricultural practices"},{"text":"This KPI is useful where projects aim to alter farming practices to reduce the carbon emissions generated from other activities (e.g. agroforestry, processing plants etc)"},{"text":"FAO's Ex-ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT) provides an estimated average tCO2e achieved from actions. On-site validation of actual benefits achieved may be beneficial in order to confirm the positive contribution."}],"resources":[{"link_text":"The EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT)","link_url":"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/in-action\/epic\/ex-act-tool\/suite-of-tools\/ex-act\/en\/"}],"links_to_other_impact_area_kpis":"<p>Projects reporting positive impact through this KPI may also demonstrate benefits for:<\/p>\n<p>Biodiversity \u2013 BIO 03<\/p>\n<p>Climate Action \u2013 CMA 04, CMA 06<\/p>\n<p>Sustainable Production \u2013 PRO 01, PRO 02, PRO 04, PRO 05<\/p>\n","case_studies":"<p>GHG emissions reduced from changes to farm practices is one of the KPIs considered by the fund AGRI3 in its E&amp;S framework. In their Impact Indicators Guidelines, IFACC include an indicator, comparable to CMA 03, titled \u2018GHG emissions impact from changes in on farm practices\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>More generally, GIIN\u2019s Impact Performance Agriculture Benchmark asks investors to report on metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions mitigated, which could encompass CMA 01, CMA 02 and CMA 03.<\/p>\n","requirements":{"spatial_data":false,"project_specific_criteria":false,"on_the_ground_verification":true},"download":"https:\/\/kpi-directory.shared-api-01.production.linode.unep-wcmc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/V2-CMA-03-Mitigation-GHG-emission-reduction-and-sequestration-from-changes-to-on-farm-practices.pdf"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Secondary] GHG emission reduction and sequestration from changes to on farm practices - Land Use Impact Hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kpi-directory.shared-api-01.production.linode.unep-wcmc.org\/index.php\/kpi\/v2-cma-03-ghg-emission-reduction-and-sequestration-from-changes-to-on-farm-practices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Secondary] GHG emission reduction and sequestration from changes to on farm practices - 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