The Social Dimensions
of Mitigation
Greenhouse Gas Inventory Roundtable Meeting
ILRI, Nairobi, 3-4 May 2016
Todd A. Crane

Baseline,
Practices & EFs
Experimentation
& Socio-institutional
analysis
On-farm &
institutional
experiments & MRV
testing
Input for LED planning,
pursuit of NAMA targets
Potential LED implementation
Mechanisms identified
Outreach to LED & Climate
finance institutions
Climate finance mechanisms
support CSA technologies
- Tested MRVs
- Functioning CF institutions
Year1Year2Year3Year5Year4 country level
country level
3 counties
3 counties
Adoption of CSA
practices for
greening livestock
Social Dimensions of Mitigation
Funders:
IFAD &
CCAFS
2 counties
2 counties

Baseline,
Practices & EFs
Experimentation
& Socio-institutional
analysis
On-farm &
institutional
experiments & MRV
testing
Input for LED planning,
pursuit of NAMA targets
Potential LED implementation
Mechanisms identified
Outreach to LED & Climate
finance institutions
Climate finance mechanisms
support CSA technologies
- Tested MRVs
- Functioning CF institutions
Year1Year2Year3Year5Year4 country level
country level
3 counties
3 counties
Adoption of CSA
practices for
greening livestock
Social Dimensions of Mitigation
Funders:
IFAD &
CCAFS
2 counties
2 counties

Social Dimensions of Mitigation
• Technologies for mitigation
– Efficiency
– Productivity
– Profitability
• Policies for mitigation
– Climate Finance mechanisms
– Carbon and GHG sequestration payments

Social Dimensions of Mitigation
• Current system
– Weak integration of smallholders in formal markets
– No incentives to reduce GHG emissions
– Incentive for productivity, but several barriers exist
– Social organization affects change
• Technical practices done in social contexts
• Different practices work in different contexts

Social Dimensions of Mitigation
• Production practices shaped by
– Social distribution of
• Labor
• Resource control
• Benefit
– Value chain organization
• Access to inputs
• Standards imposed by formal processors
• Technical support
• Social, financial, and technical barriers

Social Dimensions of Mitigation
• Research activities
– Analyse value chains, social institutions, and HH
dynamics affecting technical practices
• What barriers to upgrading do different types of producers
face and how can these be overcome?
• Which practices work for which producers?
• What are enabling factors of practices and drivers of technical
change?

Social Dimensions of Mitigation
• Research activities
– Analyse value chains, social institutions, and HH
dynamics affecting technical practices
– Identify policy mechanisms to incentivize practices:
• More profitable dairy production
• Reduction of GHG emission factors
• Rural development goals

Social Dimensions of Mitigation
• Research activities
– Analyse value chains, social institutions, and HH
dynamics affecting technical practices
– Identify policy mechanisms to incentivize practices
• Impact activities
– Assessment of LED dairy technologies
– Development of dairy NAMA

Baseline,
Practices & EFs
Experimentation
& Socio-institutional
analysis
On-farm &
institutional
experiments & MRV
testing
Input for LED planning,
pursuit of NAMA targets
Potential LED implementation
Mechanisms identified
Outreach to LED & Climate
finance institutions
Climate finance mechanisms
support CSA technologies
- Tested MRVs
- Functioning CF institutions
Year1Year2Year3Year5Year4 country level
country level
3 counties
3 counties
Adoption of CSA
practices for
greening livestock
Questions??
2 counties
2 counties