Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture. Title: Tiffany Talsma Speaker: Scalable interventions for climate smart cocoa and coffee sectors

1. Scalable
interventions
For climate smart cocoa and coffee

2. Feed the Future Learning Community
for Supply Chain Resilience
Engage global private sector: Link climate
adaptation to business models, identify information
needs, build partnerships and pilot projects
Make science actionable: Regional climate risk
mapping, climate smart practice menus, cost benefit analysis,
support implementation and build M&E toolkit
A learning community: Webinars,
engagement with key international platforms and
coordinate with national platforms
A consortium project to:

3. • Climate hazards
threaten vitality of
plant through lethal
drought or fire
• Losses of 60-100%
Climate change trends and
projections

4. Climate change trends and
projections
• In addition to pest and
disease stress, climate
hazards threaten
production, e.g. severe
drought
• Losses of 20-60%

5. Climate change trends and
projections
• Sub-optimal
management due to
higher temperature and
increased rainfall result
in more pests and
diseases
• Losses of 10-20%

6. Output of climate analysis
Climate characteristics
Degree of climate change impact
Hazards
Demarcation of zones with common:

7. 470m USD/year which corresponds to 3.1% of the global market1
The 90% range is 230m-740m USD equivalent to 1.6-5.2% of market value
450,000 households with high adaptation needs.
Note: (1) global market value as of January 2019
Potential costs of inaction

8. Investments in adaptation are
driven by supply and reputation
General Drivers for Sustainability and CSR investments
LONG-TERM
SUPPLY
REPUTATIONAL
RISKS
SHAREHOLDER/ CUSTOMER PRESSURE
BUYER REQUIREMENTS
LICENSE TO OPERATE
LEGAL COMPLIANCE
CO-FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
AVOIDED REGULATION
SUPPLY CONCERNS
IMPROVED STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS
NGO ADVOCACY
COST SAVING

9. Direct Service Providers:
Providing in-depth, direct farmer services
Collaborators:
Sharing the burden of services provision via
collaboration
Catalysts:
Sparking action in the sector level
Corporates take varied roles in
smallholder adaptation

10. 1. Rank interventions
2. Time scales
3. Understand costs and benefits
4. Incentivization
Distilled to four basic stepsAdoptable
solutions

11. 1. Compile CSA interventions
from research, participatory
approaches, transectional
walks
2. Identify benefits to production
3. Identify which hazards can be
alleviated by the practices
• Expert workshops
• Field trial data
Rank interventionsStep 1
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12. Relevant time scalesStep 2
Current state of
the farming system
(business)
Desirable state
(more productive, better adapted)
Short:
seasonality
or 1-3 years
Intermediate:
5-10 years
Distant future: 2050

13. • Costs are often incurred
immediately
• Benefits are uncertain and will
take years to accrue
• Opportunity cost of labor or
other resources may be too
high
Understand cost and benefitsStep 3

14. IncentivizationStep 4
• Barriers to adoption of CSA must
be understood
• Convene the right stakeholders
to address barriers to adoption
• Leverage expertise of
stakeholders who can design for
scale
Leadfirm
Trader
Serviceprovider

15. Integration of analysis
• acceptable for the region
• staggered by timing of benefits
• Linked to hazards
Set of practices
Cost and barriers analysis
– Streamline incentives
– Target barriers to uptake
Climate
characteristics
Degree of impact
Hazards
Zones with common:
Scalable
solutions
that
respond to
site / actor
specific
challenges

16. Training materials adapted to
include site-specific CSA

17. www.ClimateSmartCocoa.guide

18. Hershey’s climate advisory tool
for farmers in Ghana

19. Mondelez opts for carbon
insetting in Sulawesi

20. Plenty opportunities
to improve CSA at
levels of landscape
and enabling
environment
Policy
options

21. • Recommendation domains
provide a practical basis for
scaling CSA
• Sustainable solutions require
adjustments beyond the farm
• Helping companies respond to
smallholder constraints results
in options that are immediately
scalable
• Forward looking adaptation can
be good business
Summary