1. Agriculture and Forestry: Their Potential to Mitigate Climate Change at a Global Scale Sara J. Scherr, Ecoagriculture Partners Land Use Carbon & Poverty Reduction: Challenges & Opportunities Washington, DC, March 13, 2009

2. Most terrestrial area is in agricultural, grazing or production forest landscapes

3. Emissions reduction and sequestration in working landscapes: Huge potential

4. PES for climate change can integrate production, ecosystem, livelihood goals Conservation Ecosystem process & function Wild biodiversity ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Locally beneficial services Globally & regionally beneficial services Sustainable Agriculture Livelihood support PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

7. Challenge 2: Community planning -- Too hard? too costly? too risky?

8. Challenge 3: Will value chains generate sufficient incentives for producers?

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