Lessons on best practice for climate smart agriculture from Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2011

Lessons on best prac-ce for climate smart agriculture from ARDD 3 Presented by James Nyoro Managing Director, Africa Region, Rockefeller Founda6on

Today at ARDD 2011 1. The Challenges 2. Who is most at risk? 3. What climate smart agriculture delivers: •  Resilience •  Food Security and Incomes •  GHG Reduc-on 4. How to make the investments and policy changes to take climate smart agriculture to scale 5. Respond to the call for ac-on -‐ the whiskey boOle on the table Photo credits: Palmer/CIAT

The Challenges • Weather: $7.5 billion lost to extreme events in 2010 • Waste: 1.3 billion tonnes of food wasted each year • Water: 884 million people lack clean water • Land: 1.5 billion depend on degrading Millions of pwater &ave no access to clean eople h electricity land • Poverty: 1.4 billion live on <$1.25/day • Hunger: 1 billion are hungry • Over consump-on: 1 billion obese • Future: How to feed extra 1 billion people by 2025 • Climate change: Makes this all harder Over 20% of food purchased in developed countries is wasted Photo credits: 1. Howle>/University of Leeds – 2. Anon

Who is most at risk? Smallholders and Rural communi-es •  Every year climate-‐related disasters aﬀect >200 million people cos-ng over $70 billion 90% of economic losses in Africa are from droughts, ﬂoods, and storms •  87% of households in 3 SA countries slide in and out of hunger when exposed to shocks Add one more photo to match •  Shocks (drought/disease) bullets increase vulnerability and asset ownership at household level Ethiopia children born in disaster are 41% more likely to be stunted Photo credits: 1. Howle>/University of Leeds – 2. Scripture/World food Programme

What is climate smart agriculture •  Sustains the health of the land and increases produc-vity •  Does not pollute, degrade land or Farmer in Burkina Faso with good loss of forests and biodiversity harvest using plan6ng pits •  Delivers food, ﬁbre, fuel, incomes, nutri-on, carbon sequestra-on and reduces GHG emissions Farmers produce what we need Photo credits: 1. CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food 2. CIMMYT

Evidence of Success in CSA •  Niger >5 million ha regenerated 500,000 tonnes of cereals per year, beneﬁcng 1.25 Add three photos million to match bullets •  Evergreen agriculture improves yields by 30-‐150% •  160,000 Zambian farmers are using Faidherbia parklands in Niger conserva-on agriculture •  Burkina Faso farmers are using water harves-ng to restore land and increase yields •  Denmark has reduced agriculture emissions by 54% since 1990 and increased produc-on. CA has doubled Sinoya Phiris yields in Zambia Photo credits: 1. ICRAF – 2. Bafana/IPS

Is science enough? •  Integra-ng local and scien-ﬁc knowledge is a essen-al for weather forecasts to be used by farmers •  WMO ac-vely working with pastoralists •  In Tanzania under a project 95% of Farmers using par6cipatory methods to integrate local and scien6ﬁc knowledge farmers used weather informa-on by using science & local knowledge •  There is evidence for demand – in a survey 80% of Kenyan farmers said they would pay for informa-on Ethiopian woman reading rain gauge Photos credits: 1. Rambaldi/CTA – 2. Oxfam America

Partnerships maOer •  Climate smart agriculture produces climate smart products -‐ labels can take these to markets Cafédirect products •  Dryland Seed Ltd is using seed from the KARI to produce and distribute drought resistance maize Ø 1800 farmers and 800 agro-‐ dealers trained in seed mul-plica-on Ruth Musila used drought resistant maize and did not lose her crop Photo credits: 1. Cafédirect -‐ 2. Dryland Seed Ltd/CIMMYT/KARI/AGRA

Markets maOer •  Linking carbon ﬁnancing to reduce barriers that restrict farmers’ opportuni-es Danish farmers are producing 20% of the country’s renewable energy •  Partnerships can remove obstacles to input/output markets, and enhance smallholder investment Markets and crucial to the lives of women in Tanzania Photos: and Elverfeldt/Zagst/FAO

Reducing risks •  $1 invested in insurance-‐for-‐ work results in at least three -mes the value in Ethiopia •  This has led to uptake from 200 When drought hits safety nets help build to 13,000 HH in three years and the resilience of communi6es has paid out to 1,800 HH •  Index based insurance to 80,000 smallholder farmers in Mali and Burkina Faso Armyworms are a major pest and risk to farmers – insurance can reduce risk Photo credits: 1. World Bank – 2. Mushobozi

Mi-ga-on funding – the icing on the cake? •  Its best to focus funds on increasing yields rather than cash payments •  2500 farmers adopted in Kenya without cash incen-ves Terraces and compos6ng deliver higher •  Extension services need to work! yields and sequester carbon •  Kenyan farmers have seen yields increase by 15-‐30%, and >20,000 farmers are prac-cing climate smart agriculture Ø  We have the methods to do this verified by VCS that can be scaled up Kenyan farmers are already benefi6ng •  Carbon financing needs to be augmented from mi6ga6on funding Photos: World Food Programme

Gecng Policy and Finance Right •  Voice of the communi-es must be given opportunity to influence policy •  Water policies need to shiq towards small-‐scale technologies •  Policies should be designed for the smallholders, risk reduc-on and the We need to give voice to people like landscape Tekleweini Girmay and her family •  Climate financing needs to work for smallholders and be combined with private & public financing •  Involvement of commercial banks & insurers are key to increase finance •  Extension services! Climate smart means landscape smart Photos: Jansson/Oxfam America and Howle>/University of Leeds

Our Ac-ons •  Use evidence on what works to: Ø Help change agriculture policies Ø Develop climate smart agriculture programmes Ø Invest in climate smart We need to get to the safe space agriculture Ø Work with others to deliver change (e.g. Forestry) Ø Undertake new research informed by CSA smart progress indicators Its up to us Photo credits: Palmer/CIAT

Regional ac-on •  Example of Africa: –  AU/NEPAD climate smart agriculture under CAADP –  RECs: e.g. COMESA work on conserva-on agriculture Kenyan farmers using Moneymaker pump for more sustainable agriculture –  Tanzania Kilimo Kwanza –  Focussed research thro’ sub-‐regional research orgs Irriga6on

Global ac-on •  Agriculture and food security central to UNFCCC agreements •  Agriculture at the heart of green growth and Rio+20 •  G20 to increase focus on food security and climate smart agriculture Mexico 2012 Photos: ICRAF and

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Lessons on best practice for climate smart agriculture from Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2011

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