Community Markets for Conservation: Addressing Climate Change with Landscape Based Approaches
CCAFS & FAO
Smallholder Mitigation: Whole Farm and Landscape Accounting Presenter: John Fay 27 October 2011

COMACO Ltd.
Products that conserve: turning poachers into farmers and poor farmers into better farmers
Supported by:
Community Markets for Conservation
Presentation Acknowledgement and sincere thanks to Dr. Dale Lewis and the entire COMACO Team

Farm practices
Crop divers.
Soil improv.
Increased yields
Small-scale farmer Trade benefits
Dividend
Commodity price
Conservation incentives
Storage
Product manufact.
Marketing
Sales
Business
Transaction
 Trading centers   Sales centers 
at local depots
COMACO Model: A Dynamic Value-chain Process

Chinsali Serenje
Chama Lundazi
Mfuwe Chipata
Nyimba
Lusaka

COMACO CARBON APPOACH
 COMACO is linking to the carbon markets to increase sustainability through two distinct streams
Household products that reduce environmental degradation
 Launching COMACO high efficiency cookstove project in 2012 in partnership with Shared Value Africa
 100% commercial approach
Agriculture, Forestry, Other Land Use (AFOLU) Approach
 Using a landscape based approach
 Requires additional donor support

COMACO CARBON APPOACH
 Agriculture, Forestry, Other Land Use (AFOLU) Approach
 Land use practice interventions driven by COMACO:
 Agroforestry including Gliricidia & Faidherbia Albida: CDM Standard AR-AMS0004 version 2
 Minimum / no till conservation agriculture
 Modeling approach based on annual survey
 Decrease in fertiliser usage: suppressed demand?
 89 kg Avg. SSF vs. 400 kg minimum service level
 Modeling approach based on annual survey
 Exploring REDD through Community Conservation Areas, currently under development

COMACO CARBON APPOACH
 MRV based on annual COMACO farmer survey
 Approach fully integrated into overall COMACO model: participation & aggregation, CMS, geo-coordinates, integrity
 2010: 17,999 COMACO farmers surveyed
 2011: target of 45,300 COMACO farmers surveyed
 Farmer Card
 Annual Group Compliance Assessment
 Subset sample verified by independent auditor
 Emission reductions based on conservative default benchmarks (modeling approach) regarding conservation farming adoption, fertiliser reduction and agroforestry

Discussion
Project Coordinators:
www.sharedvalueafrica.com
john.fay@sharedvalueafrica.com
sam.bell@sharedvalueafrica.com
COMACO
www.itswild.org