Carbon Farming and Carbon Trading

Carbon farming allows farmers and investors to generate tradable carbon offsets from farmlands and forestry projects through carbon trading. Carbon trading is pertinent to climate negotiations by decelerating the climate change phenomenon. This chapter describes the potential of woody bamboos in biomass carbon storage and as an option for carbon farming and carbon trading. Carbon farming involves implementing practices that are known to improve the rate at which CO₂ is removed from the atmosphere and converted to plant material and/or soil organic matter. Carbon farming is successful when carbon gains resulting from enhanced land management and/or conservation practices exceed carbon losses. Reforestation, afforestation, and reducing deforestation and forest degradation are also eligible for carbon trading. Present synthesis suggests that bamboo offers tremendous opportunities for carbon farming and carbon trading. Integrating woody bamboos with carbon trading will promote the cultivation and management of woody bamboos in agroforestry and forest ecosystems and, therefore, generating another income stream for the rural communities.