Building on FAO policy advice and incorporating lessons from ongoing agricultural carbon finance projects of FAO and other organizations, this document provides an overview of potential mitigation finance opportunities for soil carbon sequestration.

Developing Climate-Smart Agriculture is crucial to achieving food security and climate change goals. This paper examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation.    

Potential synergies between food security, adaptation and climate change mitigation from land-based agricultural practices could help to generate multiple benefits needed to address the multiple demands placed on agriculture. This work explores these synergies and indicates promising mitigation options with synergies, options that involve trade-offs, possible options for required financing, and possible elements in designing country implementation processes.