Program objective

The Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities aim to achieve the following outcomes through a variety of pilot projects: • Increased markets (supply and demand) for climate-smart commodities; • Increased adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry (CSAF) practices and systems that reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and/or increase carbon sequestration from the agricultural sector; • Demonstration of scalable and low-cost measurement/quantification, monitoring, reporting, and verification (MMRV) systems; • Increased innovation and consistency in measuring/quantifying farm-level greenhouse gas benefits; • Testing and evaluation of efficient traceability through supply chains from production of commodity to delivery to the consumer; • Improved understanding and communication of economic and adaptation benefits, as well as ancillary environmental benefits; • Equitable administration that includes small and underserved producers as well as early adopters (i.e., producers who have already used some climate-smart approaches); • Understanding of marketability advantages for a variety of farm types; • Empowerment of farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners to drive Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry markets and practice adoption; and • Development of additional public-private partnerships to foster and develop Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry markets.