Climate-Smart Agriculture€¦ · CSA origins and progress With 10 key messages: • Required ag transformation to address food security and CC. • Adoption of practices. • Adoption

Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook

Reuben Sessa Natural Resources Officer (climate change)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Doha 1 December 2012

www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart


CSA origins and progress

With 10 key messages:

• Required ag transformation to address

food security and CC.

• Adoption of practices.

• Adoption of Ecosystem and

Landscape approaches.

• Fill data and knowledge gaps.

• Finance to small-holders.

• Institutional capacity for dissemination

and support.

• Integration of multiple requirements.

• Greater policy consistency.

• 3 related to financing mechanisms

2010 Hague

FAO Conference Document:

“Climate-Smart” Agriculture:

Policies, Practices and Financing

for Food Security, Adaptation

and Mitigation

2009 Rome

Food Security and Agricultural

Mitigation in Developing

Countries:

Options for Capturing Synergies


Sourcebook modules

1. Concept

and scope 3. Farming

practices

Section A

2. Landscape

approach

Section B

Section C

4. Farming

systems

5. Food

chains

6. Institutions

7. Policy

8. Finance

9. DRR

10. Safety

nets

11. Capacity

building

12. Assessment


Module 1 General principles of CSA Lead authors: Alexander Meybeck/Vincent Gitz

1. Challenges

• 1 billion hungry

• Production to increase by 60% by 2050 for bigger richer

population

• Competition for limited and degraded resource base

• Adaptation to Climate Change, resiliance shocks, production

stability

2. CSA definition and scope

• Including overview of interlinkages and consideratinos for

implementation

3. Context

• Including how CSA relates to boarder context (e.g. green

growth)


Module 2 Landscape Approach Lead authors: MarjaLiisa Tapio Bistrom and Lisen Runsten

What the sourcebook is still missing

Data on economics of landscape

approach, benefits and costs to

farmers, other land users and

stakeholders at different levels.

CSA requires

landscape

interventions to

manage

common

resourses, build

ecosystem

services, and

create local

governance to

manage

tradeoffs and

promote

synergies.


Module 3 Practices and Module 4 Systems Coordinator: Reuben Sessa

Resources management Water management: Jean Marc Faures

Soil management: Sally Bunning and Ronald Vargas

Energy: Olivier Dubois

Genetic resources: Linda Collette

Includes specific ecosystem case studies

such as mountains.

Looking for case studies with natural

resource, CC, economic, social data.

Systems Crops: Nadine Azzu

Livestock: Pierre Gerber

Forestry: Susan Braatz

Fisheries: Randall Brummett (WB) and

Cassandra De Young

And especially integrated systems

such as agro-forestry, crop-fish, etc.


Module 5 Post-harvest services and food chains Coordinator: Tamara Vantwout and Reuben Sessa

Increasing efficiency and reducing resource use (including energy)

Reducing loss and waste

Creating positive divers (e.g. Sustainable diets)

Production -> post harvest handling -> processing -> distribution -> retail -> consumer (and

waste along the chain and its use)

Case studies: Vegetable, livestock and dairy products, fish, etc.

Consumer behavior

Food production

Post harvest + storage

processing

distribution

consumption

Disposal of food

Waste, energy, etc.

Value


Section C: Enabling Environment for Adoption Module 6 Institutional infrastructure Lead Author: Patti Kristjanson (CCAFS / CGIAR)

To achieve CSA uptake requires an

enabling environment. Local institutional strengthening to:

1. Knowledge generation and dissemination

(extension)

2. Provide services (credit, seeds, fertilizer,

etc.)

3. Support collaborative action (cooperatives

and community based initiatives).

Still looking for

concrete case studies.

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Module 7 Policy development Lead Author: Marjory-Anne Bromhead

1. Consistency between agriculture, food security

and climate change policies.

2. Incorporating climate smart agriculture into

national planning.

3. Creating institutional and financial support for the

transition of smallholders.

4. Provide incentives for and enable long term

investments

5. Facilitate collective management of natural

resources

6. Reduce risk and provide insurance

7. Facilitate aggregation of MRV activities

8. Provide equitable level of access – including to

“carbon” rights

Policy measures for adoption of CSA

practices include:

1. Legal and regulatory frameworks.

2. Incentives.

3. Addressing market failures and barriers

for CSA uptake.


Module 8 Financial instruments and investments Lead Author: Christian Mersmann and Louis Bockel

• Support CSA transitions through:

– Overcoming short term adoption barriers

– Incentives for adoption of CSA practices, including through payment for ecosystem services

– Access climate finance streams

– Blending of different financing sources(climate/development and public/private resources).

–

B. Investment Barrier to Adoption

Time ==>

Baseline net income Current net income

Temporary net loss to

farmer

New management practices

introduced

Source: FAO 2007

Currently not sufficient committed

resources (nationally, internationally)

to achieve needed transitions

Developing resources and mechanisms

to support transitions over extended

periods of time is a major challenge

Linking climate finance to climate smart

agriculture transitions can help.

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

Current

investment

Meeting demand

in 2050

Public

Private

US$ billions per year (gross)

142 209

Additional

Funding for

Mitigation

30


Module 9 Disaster risk reduction Lead Author: Monica Trujillo and Stephan Bass

• CC will further compound existing hazards to agriculture.

• Address how to build on current disaster risk reduction strategies to respond to extreme weather events.

• Reviews traditional knowledge, technologies and management practices that can be used.

• Discuss national institutional policy and planning frameworks to ensure up scaling.

•

Know-how and knowledge sharing: Proven technologies & practices for DRR

Bottoms-up participatory approaches: CBDRM

Enabling environment:

Legislations, policies and plans for DRR

Risk assessments: Multi-hazard risk analysis and mapping

Disaster Risk Reduction

Global policy framework:

Hyogo Framework for Action


Module 10 Risk insurance and social protection Lead Author: Catherine Zanev and Carlo Scaramella

• Addresses the challenges of the adoption of CSA by the most vulnerable.

• Measures such as social cash and food transfers and weather index insurance schemes and how to use them most appropriately.

•


Module 11 Capacity development Lead Author: Claudia Hiepe

• Review the different types of capacity building required from ministries to farm level implementation.

• It highlights the requirements of stakeholders such as access information, advisory services, R and D.

• It includes the use of IT technologies such web, mobile as well tv and radio.

• Closely linked with Module 6


Module 12 Monitoring and assessment Lead Author: Hideki Kanamaru

Assessments and monitoring which are essential

for making appropriate choices and determining

successes and problems of CSA interventions.

It will discusses the climatic, environmental,

social and economic parameters that need to be

considered

And it will reviews the tools and methods

available.


Where are we?

1. Lead authors have created first drafts of modules

2. Core contributors, contributing and revising text

3. E-consultation process to begin

If interested contact [email protected] to register.


THANK YOU


Your Help Required


Where are we?

What still required for the sourcebook…

Data and information and case studies of the use of practices,

policy and finance with data on resulting changes in a number of

parameters including production, economic, environment, social. Allow

readers to understand what needs to be considered in implementing

effective CSA interventions.

CSA is…

-Context specific (env, eco, soc)

There is no one good practice....

- One practice, policy or finance is not always applicable

- Assessing synergies/tradeoffs across multiple objectives is fundamental

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Climate-Smart Agriculture€¦ · CSA origins and progress With 10 key messages: • Required ag transformation to address food security and CC. • Adoption of practices. • Adoption