Project Number: 1265-13610-027-45
Project Type: Trust

Start Date: Jul 01, 2005
End Date: Dec 31, 2009

Objective:
The main objectives of Dry Management Project (DMP) are to restore of the dry and abandoned land to productive use for the rangeland, pasture and crops where it appropriate based on the study and analyses of the region, determine the effects of different land uses and soil management practices on SOC pool dynamics and develop technology for monitoring of carbon sequestration in different land-use systems. This technology applied for certain region in Kazakhstan should be used for other parts of country and national carbon budget assessment in the future. The objective of this assignment is to assist in increasing scientific capacity of the republican institutions and in building national capacity to generate, on a sustainable basis, site-specific data acquisition on carbon stocks and proceed from these data to simulate quantification of potential carbon sequestered in different land use systems in dry lands of Kazakhstan.

Approach:
This sub-component of the "Dryland Management Project" (DMP) will provide information on carbon stock and fluxes that will be the basis for impact assessment and for selection of management options that promote carbon sequestion. This first step will be the development of land cover and land use map for the target zone to provide the basis for stratification of the landscape units, to find sampling locations and to provide the baseline for measurement of carbon accumulation. Outputs include development of expertise necessary to make the DMP impacts sutainable, and to extrapolate results to larger spatial scales. This remote sensing/monitoring sub-component will establish baseline conditions for evaluating fixed carbon volume of the different landscape, monitor and quantify the results of the alternative land treatments throughout the duration of the project and determine long-term environmental and economic costs and benefits of intervention to augment absorbed carbon. An evaluation of the potential for participation of the project area in international carbon trading will be conducted and used to enhance national understanding of carbon trading issues. In evaluating the potential for participation in carbon trading, participants actively serving as brokers will determine the potential for successful carbon trading by evaluating the cost and benefits according to the information received in the project.