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1. CCAFS (CRP7) in South Asia:
Partnerships for Impact
Pramod Aggarwal
CGIAR Research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
International Water Management Institute, New Delhi

2. CCAFS: Impact pathway in South Asia

3. 1. CCAFS Partnerships for Impact in South Asia
• Outcome: Local and national institutions make informed decisions to
support food security, enhancement of climate-resilient agriculture, and
integration of climate sensitive development pathways into and planning of
development interventions
• Outputs:
– Tools to support investment decisions and prioritization of adaptation/mitigation options
– Regionally differentiated impact assessment of climate change
– Germplasm threatened by climate change conserved
– Toolkit for weather forecast linked pre-harvest crop yield forecasts
– Enhanced capacity in the region
• Partnership:
– Governments: Ministries of Agriculture
– NARS: ICAR-NICRA, NPGR, NARC, Nepal Gene Bank
– Met Agencies: IMD, DHM
– NGOs: CEGIS, NDRI
– CGIAR: IFPRI, CIMMYT, IRRI, ICRISAT, CIAT, Bioversity
– International partners: IRI, Colombia

4. • Outcome: Climate information (and other necessary information) providing
significant benefits to farmers in the face of climate variability
• Outputs:
– Products for index- based insurance for climate risk management
– Weather-forecasts and value-added agro-advisories
– Climate literacy of farmers enhanced through cell-phone based awareness campaigns
– Rural women accessing and using agricultural and climate-related services and information
• Partnership:
– Industry: Agricultural Insurance Company of India; IFFKO Kisan Sanchar Limited
– Met agencies: IMD, India, DHM, Nepal
– NARS: ICAR, NARC
– NGOS: NDRI, CARE, IFFKO Foundation; Women Co-operatives
2. CCAFS Partnerships for Impact in South Asia

5. • Outcome: Farmers adopting practices that enhance capacity to
respond to climate change (climate resilient practices, risk
management, mitigation and adaptive capacities)
• Outputs:
– ‘Climate smart villages’ established at several sites
– Policy to link ‘climate smart village’ approach with on-going government programs for
scaling out
– Farmer participatory videos for scaling out
– Capacity of farmers, and local and national institutions enhanced
• Partnership:
– Farmer cooperatives
– Local government: Panchayats, block, district and state governments
– NARS: ICAR, NARC, SAUs
– Industry: IFFKO-TOKIO (Insurance), IKSL (ICT), input suppliers
– CGIAR centers: IFPRI, CIMMYT, IWMI, Bioversity, WorldFish, CIP
3. CCAFS Partnerships for Impact in South Asia

6. • Outcome: Rural women empowered to accessing and using
agricultural and climate-related services
• Outputs:
– Training of trainers modules
– Training modules for rural women developed and field tested
– Pilots launched at several sites to demonstrate women-farmer led climate risk
management- seeds for needs, ICT based weather knowledge
– Capacity of local governments and cooperatives enhanced
• Partnership:
– Women cooperatives
– Local government: Panchayats, block, district and state governments
– NARS: ICAR, NARC
– NGOs: Alternative Futures and others
– CGIAR centers: CIMMYT, IWMI, Bioversity, WorldFish
4. CCAFS Partnerships for Impact in South Asia

7. ICAR/NICRA-CCAFS partnership
Alok Sikka
Deputy Director General
Indian Council of Agricultural Research

8. National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture
(NICRA) - ICAR
• One of the largest network projects of ICAR launched in 2011
• All major ICAR Institutes as partners with CRIDA as the lead institute
• The project has four components
 Strategic research
 Technology demonstration
 Sponsored and competitive grants
 Capacity building
• State of the art research infrastructure at major ICAR Institutes:
phenotyping platforms, FATE, CTGC, TGT, walk in CO2 chambers,
flux towers, satellite stations, animal calorie meters, fishing vessel with
climate monitoring facilities.

9. Achievements
• Identified more than 100 promising germplasm lines of wheat, rice and
pulses against multiple abiotic stresses
• Established relationship between climate variables and spawning in major
marine fish species
• Established long term experiments across the country for quantifying the
impact of CA on GHG emissions
• Initiated technology demonstrations in 100 vulnerable districts for farm
level evaluation of best bet practices for coping with climate variability
covering nearly 1.00 lakh farmers.
• Established horizontal linkages with state development departments for
upscaling the successful models
• Organized more than 2000 climate awareness programs for farmers and
other stakeholders across the country

10. NICRA/ICAR-CCAFS partnership
Key activities
• Joint development of DSS for climate change impact
assessment, climatic risk management, pre-harvest crop yield
forecasting, and for agricultural adaptation strategies.
• Scaling out climate smart villages- linking with on-going government
development programs.
• Database system for monitoring adaptation and mitigation benefits -
implications for developing national strategy on climate change and
agriculture.
• Capacity strengthening in climate change scenarios, spatial
modelling, and prioritization methodology for adaptation/mitigation
benefits.

11. AIC-CCAFS partnership on crop insurance for
climate risk management
Kolli Rao
Agricultural Insurance Company of India

12. Agriculture Insurance Company of India
 Created at the behest of the Government and took over crop insurance
operation w.e.f. 1st April 2003
 Stakeholders: GIC (35%), NABARD (30%) and NIA, NIC, OIC & UIIC (8.75%
each)
 Design appropriate and farmer friendly crop insurance products
 Net-worth as on 31st Mar 2012- INR 15.75 billion
 2-Tier structure of Corporate Office and Regional Offices
 17 Regional Offices as Underwriting Centres
 240 dedicated technically qualified manpower
 AICNET (ANNAPOORNA) for seamless IT integration
 Administering the World’s largest index based crop insurance with over
25 M farmers insured annually
 Multiple-Agency Platform
 Innovations & Technologies

13. AIC-CCAFS partnership on index insurance
 Improve the Value of Index insurance by minimizing Product
Basis Risk
 Risk characterization for key crops at Agro-Climatic Zone level
 Rainfall triggers for rice, cotton, soybean, pearl millet, and
corn
 Heat (high temperature) triggers for wheat, mustard and
chickpea
 Product testing during Kharif 2013

14. AIC-CCAFS partnership:
Community Level Indemnity based Crop Insurance
 Objective: Indemnity based crop insurance with minimal
administrative cost and least moral hazard
 Pilots being launched in Tamilnadu and Bihar
 Named peril insurance at community level as a standalone
product
 Named peril insurance at community level as top-up with rainfall
based index insurance
 Double Trigger Index insurance
 Named peril insurance standalone product at community level
with ‘loyalty bonus’
 GPS enabled Handheld Devices for enrolment and loss
assessment
 Value-added services

15. Climate smart villages in Karnal (Haryana):
Farmers perspective
Society for Conservation of Natural Resources and
Empowering Rural Youth, Karnal (Haryana)
Vikas Chaudhary
Farmer

16. Why farmers cooperatives and Youth?
• We have several issues with traditional farming technologies as well
as the way we practice them
o Water, labour shortages, high production costs
o Soil health and environmental pollution
o Profit margins
o Youth are moving away from farming
• Blanket, large area recommendations are really not very helpful-
example of 2012-13 (both kharif and rabi seasons)
• Unidirectional process of technology development and flow will not
be very useful; active participation of all stakeholders is needed
• Local adaptation of technologies with active participation of farmers
• Farmer is the best common neutral platform
• Need new way of farming for bringing youth back to farming
• We have excellent experience on this with the ‘climate smart village’
approach of CCAFS

17. ICAR
Institutes
(Research)
CCSHAU
(Students)
State
Deptt of
Agri
(Scaling-
out)
KVKs
(Adaptation)
Media
(awareness
)
CCAFS/
CIMMYT-
Team
(Networking
, Capacity)
Private
Sector
(Input-
output,
services)
New
Farmer
societies
(CSA)
(Innovation &
Adaptation)
Cooperative Society
(Climate smart
participatory innovation
platform-
Service windows,
stakeholder meets,
travelling seminars, field
days)
CSA
Services
CSA
adopters
CSA
modules
farmers
CSA
adopters
CSA
modules
farmers
CSA
adopters
Our Climate Smart Innovation Platform
Haryana
Kisan
Ayog
(Policy
support)

18. Technologies we are promoting through custom
services, in-field consultations and advisory
• Laser land levelling
• Zero tillage
• Residue management (Happy seeder)
• Direct seeded rice
• Raised bed planting
• Diversification of rice with maize
• Intensification with short duration
moong
• Nutrient Expert Decision system for
maize and wheat, Small GreenSeeker)
• Improved varieties
• ICT based dissemination of agro-
advisories
• Index based insurance (in process)

19. In-Field Stakeholder Consultation in CCAFS
(HKA, ICAR, SDA, CIMMYT, Private sector, Farmers etc)

20. Farmer Cooperatives and youth are playing key role

21. Recognitions
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CM Haryana