Addressing Carbon Accounting Challenges in Smallholder Agricultural Systems to Unlock Credible Scope 3 Progres

  • Analyzing why grain traceability breaks down in smallholder-dominated systems and what this means for the feasibility of Scope 3 accounting benefits
  • Highlighting how project-level quantification, direct measurement, and biogeochemical model calibration can improve confidence beyond default tools in emerging markets benefits
  • Reconsidering how evolving standards may enable pragmatic pathways to recognize carbon outcomes from smallholder systems