The document summarizes the work of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project, which aims to transform climate data and information into usable tools to help agricultural producers manage risks from a variable and changing climate. U2U conducts stakeholder surveys and focus groups to understand farmer and advisor needs and concerns about climate impacts. It is developing decision support tools to provide climate data and help with decisions around issues like post-planting nitrogen application and irrigation investment. The project involves collaborators from various fields and seeks stakeholder input to develop and evaluate tools that address key decision points and will actually be used by the agricultural community.
This project developed runoff forecasting models and thresholds to guide short-term nutrient management decisions. It tested the Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting model and found it could predict runoff occurrence and soil moisture levels. Based on field data, it established thresholds for low, moderate, and high runoff risk based on soil saturation levels and forecasted runoff amounts. Initial tests found the thresholds had predictive skill. The project aims to create a web tool to provide watershed-scale and local-scale runoff risk forecasts to inform nutrient application decisions. Continued validation of the soil moisture and runoff models is needed.
This document discusses climate change vulnerabilities and expected changes in different regions of the United States. It outlines increased temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and more extreme weather events that are expected to impact agriculture. Specific vulnerabilities mentioned include reduced snowpack and streamflow in the West, increased drought in the Southern Plains, and sea level rise threatening coastal areas in the Southeast and Caribbean. The document also describes the USDA's network of Climate Hubs that work with partners to provide science-based information and technologies to help agricultural managers make climate-informed decisions.
This document summarizes climate-smart agriculture (CSA) options for mixed crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the importance of these systems for food security now and in the future given population growth. Several CSA practices are presented and evaluated based on their potential impacts on production, resilience, mitigation, feasibility, and adoption constraints. The analysis finds that CSA options often involve trade-offs. Additionally, broad-brush targeting of interventions is not appropriate given context-specific impacts. Improving the evidence base and addressing adoption constraints will help scale up promising CSA practices.
This document discusses strategies for improving conservation practice adoption based on research by Linda Stalker Prokopy. It addresses three main problems: selecting watersheds to work in, getting people engaged in watershed management, and reaching individual farmers. For the first problem, the document advocates focusing on watersheds with conditions more likely to lead to success, such as having paid staff and engaged conservation groups. For the second problem, the document highlights the importance of partnerships, funding, and engaging local stakeholders. For the third problem, the document discusses how farmer characteristics, social networks, and practice compatibility influence adoption and maintenance of conservation practices.
Combined Presentations for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) Tools for Africa w...CANAAFRICA
On 12th October 2015 the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), East Africa through its regional knowledge sharing platform The Climate and Agriculture Network for Africa (CANA) organized a webinar dubbed Climate-Smart Agriculture Tools for Africa.
Climate change is projected to slow progress on improving food security and meeting nutrition targets in Africa by 2030 according to projections. While population growth and rising incomes are expected to increase food demand, climate change impacts like changes in rainfall and increasing temperatures could reduce yields of crops like maize in some areas. Models estimate that climate change may increase the number of people at risk of hunger in Africa by 20-50 million without investments to improve agricultural resilience and productivity. However, increased investments in technologies, infrastructure, and R&D could help offset climate change impacts on food security through at least mid-century. The extent of impacts from climate change remains uncertain and will vary by location.
The document summarizes the work of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project, which aims to transform climate data and information into usable tools to help agricultural producers manage risks from a variable and changing climate. U2U conducts stakeholder surveys and focus groups to understand farmer and advisor needs and concerns about climate impacts. It is developing decision support tools to provide climate data and help with decisions around issues like post-planting nitrogen application and irrigation investment. The project involves collaborators from various fields and seeks stakeholder input to develop and evaluate tools that address key decision points and will actually be used by the agricultural community.
This project developed runoff forecasting models and thresholds to guide short-term nutrient management decisions. It tested the Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting model and found it could predict runoff occurrence and soil moisture levels. Based on field data, it established thresholds for low, moderate, and high runoff risk based on soil saturation levels and forecasted runoff amounts. Initial tests found the thresholds had predictive skill. The project aims to create a web tool to provide watershed-scale and local-scale runoff risk forecasts to inform nutrient application decisions. Continued validation of the soil moisture and runoff models is needed.
This document discusses climate change vulnerabilities and expected changes in different regions of the United States. It outlines increased temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and more extreme weather events that are expected to impact agriculture. Specific vulnerabilities mentioned include reduced snowpack and streamflow in the West, increased drought in the Southern Plains, and sea level rise threatening coastal areas in the Southeast and Caribbean. The document also describes the USDA's network of Climate Hubs that work with partners to provide science-based information and technologies to help agricultural managers make climate-informed decisions.
This document summarizes climate-smart agriculture (CSA) options for mixed crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the importance of these systems for food security now and in the future given population growth. Several CSA practices are presented and evaluated based on their potential impacts on production, resilience, mitigation, feasibility, and adoption constraints. The analysis finds that CSA options often involve trade-offs. Additionally, broad-brush targeting of interventions is not appropriate given context-specific impacts. Improving the evidence base and addressing adoption constraints will help scale up promising CSA practices.
This document discusses strategies for improving conservation practice adoption based on research by Linda Stalker Prokopy. It addresses three main problems: selecting watersheds to work in, getting people engaged in watershed management, and reaching individual farmers. For the first problem, the document advocates focusing on watersheds with conditions more likely to lead to success, such as having paid staff and engaged conservation groups. For the second problem, the document highlights the importance of partnerships, funding, and engaging local stakeholders. For the third problem, the document discusses how farmer characteristics, social networks, and practice compatibility influence adoption and maintenance of conservation practices.
Combined Presentations for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) Tools for Africa w...CANAAFRICA
On 12th October 2015 the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), East Africa through its regional knowledge sharing platform The Climate and Agriculture Network for Africa (CANA) organized a webinar dubbed Climate-Smart Agriculture Tools for Africa.
Climate change is projected to slow progress on improving food security and meeting nutrition targets in Africa by 2030 according to projections. While population growth and rising incomes are expected to increase food demand, climate change impacts like changes in rainfall and increasing temperatures could reduce yields of crops like maize in some areas. Models estimate that climate change may increase the number of people at risk of hunger in Africa by 20-50 million without investments to improve agricultural resilience and productivity. However, increased investments in technologies, infrastructure, and R&D could help offset climate change impacts on food security through at least mid-century. The extent of impacts from climate change remains uncertain and will vary by location.
Presentation by Dan Dostie, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, for the Climate Change and Midwest Agriculture: Impacts, Challenges, & Opportunities workshop held by the USDA Midwest Climate Hub on March 1-2, 2016.
This document presents a framework for analyzing the interactions between gender, climate change, and nutrition. It discusses why considering gender and nutrition is important for climate-smart agriculture approaches. The framework examines how climate trends may impact absorptive and adaptive capacity differently for men and women due to gender differences in roles, resources, and decision-making power. It also explores how climate-smart agriculture strategies could help minimize nutrition losses and maximize gains across the food system, while closing or exacerbating gender inequalities, and provides examples of entry points for interventions that are sensitive to both gender and nutrition outcomes.
The new Farm Bill has exciting new and modified programs to advance Great Lakes restoration, and improve the health of our soil, water and wildlife resources. Come learn and discover from local and Washington experts how the Farm Bill can lead to meaningful advancements in the health of the Great Lakes, and how your group can participate.
A method for developing forest landscape restoration strategies by rapidly assessing the status of key success factors.
Find out more: http://www.wri.org/events/2016/04/webinar-restoration-diagnostic
- Climate change is expected to negatively impact agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa due to increased temperatures, weather variability, and extreme events.
- Climate-smart agriculture is promoted to enhance productivity while reducing emissions and increasing carbon sequestration, but effects are context-specific.
- The study examines the role of climate-smart practices in mitigating climate change impacts on maize and rice yields and trade in three African economic communities from 2018-2025.
1) The document describes a decision support tool being developed to increase farmer adoption of cover crops by demonstrating their short-term benefits for soil water and nitrogen conservation.
2) An on-farm network trial across 6 states is measuring factors like nitrate loss, infiltration rates, biomass production, and nitrogen content in cover crop and no-cover crop treatments.
3) Real-time data and modeling tools will provide farmers comparisons to help quantify cover crops' water retention and nitrogen contributions to subsequent cash crops. The goal is to overcome perceptions that cover crops reduce water and increase fertilizer needs.
The document summarizes the Carbon Insetting Framework developed by the NRCS CIG partnership. The framework provides guidelines for carbon offset and insetting projects related to agriculture supply chains. It establishes protocols for quantifying greenhouse gas reductions from conservation practices like cover crops and no-till using models. The framework is being validated using on-farm trials through the Soil Health Partnership network across the Midwest. Verification of practice implementation and carbon reductions will utilize the OpTIS system for mapping tillage, crops and residues over time across wide areas.
This document summarizes a study on using cover crops to improve water quality and reduce soil compaction in coastal plain soils. The project established demonstration sites to evaluate the impacts of cover crops on soil moisture, water infiltration and runoff. Sensors were installed to automatically monitor soil moisture, and flumes were set up to measure surface water runoff. Preliminary results found that rye cover crops helped maintain soil moisture for cash crops and reduced water runoff compared to areas without cover crops. The project aims to demonstrate these benefits to farmers and develop tools for monitoring soil moisture with Internet of Things technology.
This document summarizes information about the USDA's Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. It discusses the two components of CIG - the CIG Classic pilot program and the new On-Farm Trials program established in the 2018 Farm Bill. Key details are provided about eligible projects and entities under each program, as well as funding amounts. Updates are also given on the 2019 application process and priorities for funding under CIG Classic and the new On-Farm Trials competition.
Climate-smart agriculture: panacea or propaganda? CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Todd Rosenstock & Christine Lamanna was given at a session titled "Using climate-smart technologies to scale up climate-smart agriculture practices" at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, on December 7, 2014.
The panel presentation and discussion focused on how these climate-smart technologies can be scaled-up to benefit smallholder farmers. This was followed by a public debate.
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
This document summarizes a presentation about using farmer engagement tools to increase continuous living cover in Midwest watersheds. It discusses tools like a cropping systems calculator and mapping tools that have been used in the Chippewa River Watershed to analyze alternative cropping systems and target practices. It also describes conducting baseline interviews in two Illinois watersheds to understand farmer adoption of conservation practices and design outreach. The presentation promotes sharing these tools and resources through a watershed initiative network to advance the goal of more continuous living cover at the landscape scale through collaboration.
Barriers to adoption: policy & institutional arrangements to support CSAFAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to as background to the Scientific conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture held in Montpellier, France, on 16-18 March 2015.
Achieving national and global climate objectives in Asia and the Pacific thro...GCARD Conferences
This document discusses how investment in climate-smart agriculture can help achieve climate and food security goals in Asia and the Pacific. It outlines the connections between the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for ending hunger and tackling climate change, and describes climate-smart agriculture as an approach that can increase productivity, build resilience, and reduce emissions. National climate plans (INDCs) for many countries in the region prioritize agriculture actions aligned with climate-smart practices. While climate finance is growing, leveraging domestic investment will be key to driving widespread adoption of climate-smart agriculture.
Livestock and environment: Group report on the ILRI@40 workshop Addis Ababa, ...ILRI
The document summarizes a workshop on livestock and the environment. It identifies challenges like sustainable food production with resource scarcity and climate change. The vision is to provide evidence on mitigation and adaptation interventions, decision support for sustainable intensification, and complex systems analysis beyond climate. Key research questions focus on the GHG efficiency gap, integrated analysis of ecosystem services and value chains, scenarios, and thresholds. Research is also needed on climate adaptation, livestock biodiversity, and using big data to scale up interventions while maintaining specificity.
This document provides an overview and agenda for the Soil Health CIG Symposium. It discusses a project conducted by American Farmland Trust to quantify the economic, environmental, and soil health outcomes of conservation practices on four farms located in California, Illinois, Ohio, and New York. The project utilized partial budget analysis, the Nutrient Tracking Tool, and the COMET-Farm Tool to analyze impacts. Key findings included yield increases, higher net incomes, reduced input costs, and improvements to water quality and greenhouse gas emissions from the soil health practices. The document outlines the project objectives, methods, case studies developed, and plans to disseminate results to farmers and conservation partners.
Presentation by PK Joshi, International Food Policy Research Institute, at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Presentation by Dan Dostie, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, for the Climate Change and Midwest Agriculture: Impacts, Challenges, & Opportunities workshop held by the USDA Midwest Climate Hub on March 1-2, 2016.
This document presents a framework for analyzing the interactions between gender, climate change, and nutrition. It discusses why considering gender and nutrition is important for climate-smart agriculture approaches. The framework examines how climate trends may impact absorptive and adaptive capacity differently for men and women due to gender differences in roles, resources, and decision-making power. It also explores how climate-smart agriculture strategies could help minimize nutrition losses and maximize gains across the food system, while closing or exacerbating gender inequalities, and provides examples of entry points for interventions that are sensitive to both gender and nutrition outcomes.
The new Farm Bill has exciting new and modified programs to advance Great Lakes restoration, and improve the health of our soil, water and wildlife resources. Come learn and discover from local and Washington experts how the Farm Bill can lead to meaningful advancements in the health of the Great Lakes, and how your group can participate.
A method for developing forest landscape restoration strategies by rapidly assessing the status of key success factors.
Find out more: http://www.wri.org/events/2016/04/webinar-restoration-diagnostic
- Climate change is expected to negatively impact agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa due to increased temperatures, weather variability, and extreme events.
- Climate-smart agriculture is promoted to enhance productivity while reducing emissions and increasing carbon sequestration, but effects are context-specific.
- The study examines the role of climate-smart practices in mitigating climate change impacts on maize and rice yields and trade in three African economic communities from 2018-2025.
1) The document describes a decision support tool being developed to increase farmer adoption of cover crops by demonstrating their short-term benefits for soil water and nitrogen conservation.
2) An on-farm network trial across 6 states is measuring factors like nitrate loss, infiltration rates, biomass production, and nitrogen content in cover crop and no-cover crop treatments.
3) Real-time data and modeling tools will provide farmers comparisons to help quantify cover crops' water retention and nitrogen contributions to subsequent cash crops. The goal is to overcome perceptions that cover crops reduce water and increase fertilizer needs.
The document summarizes the Carbon Insetting Framework developed by the NRCS CIG partnership. The framework provides guidelines for carbon offset and insetting projects related to agriculture supply chains. It establishes protocols for quantifying greenhouse gas reductions from conservation practices like cover crops and no-till using models. The framework is being validated using on-farm trials through the Soil Health Partnership network across the Midwest. Verification of practice implementation and carbon reductions will utilize the OpTIS system for mapping tillage, crops and residues over time across wide areas.
This document summarizes a study on using cover crops to improve water quality and reduce soil compaction in coastal plain soils. The project established demonstration sites to evaluate the impacts of cover crops on soil moisture, water infiltration and runoff. Sensors were installed to automatically monitor soil moisture, and flumes were set up to measure surface water runoff. Preliminary results found that rye cover crops helped maintain soil moisture for cash crops and reduced water runoff compared to areas without cover crops. The project aims to demonstrate these benefits to farmers and develop tools for monitoring soil moisture with Internet of Things technology.
This document summarizes information about the USDA's Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. It discusses the two components of CIG - the CIG Classic pilot program and the new On-Farm Trials program established in the 2018 Farm Bill. Key details are provided about eligible projects and entities under each program, as well as funding amounts. Updates are also given on the 2019 application process and priorities for funding under CIG Classic and the new On-Farm Trials competition.
Climate-smart agriculture: panacea or propaganda? CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Todd Rosenstock & Christine Lamanna was given at a session titled "Using climate-smart technologies to scale up climate-smart agriculture practices" at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, on December 7, 2014.
The panel presentation and discussion focused on how these climate-smart technologies can be scaled-up to benefit smallholder farmers. This was followed by a public debate.
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
This document summarizes a presentation about using farmer engagement tools to increase continuous living cover in Midwest watersheds. It discusses tools like a cropping systems calculator and mapping tools that have been used in the Chippewa River Watershed to analyze alternative cropping systems and target practices. It also describes conducting baseline interviews in two Illinois watersheds to understand farmer adoption of conservation practices and design outreach. The presentation promotes sharing these tools and resources through a watershed initiative network to advance the goal of more continuous living cover at the landscape scale through collaboration.
Barriers to adoption: policy & institutional arrangements to support CSAFAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to as background to the Scientific conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture held in Montpellier, France, on 16-18 March 2015.
Achieving national and global climate objectives in Asia and the Pacific thro...GCARD Conferences
This document discusses how investment in climate-smart agriculture can help achieve climate and food security goals in Asia and the Pacific. It outlines the connections between the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for ending hunger and tackling climate change, and describes climate-smart agriculture as an approach that can increase productivity, build resilience, and reduce emissions. National climate plans (INDCs) for many countries in the region prioritize agriculture actions aligned with climate-smart practices. While climate finance is growing, leveraging domestic investment will be key to driving widespread adoption of climate-smart agriculture.
Livestock and environment: Group report on the ILRI@40 workshop Addis Ababa, ...ILRI
The document summarizes a workshop on livestock and the environment. It identifies challenges like sustainable food production with resource scarcity and climate change. The vision is to provide evidence on mitigation and adaptation interventions, decision support for sustainable intensification, and complex systems analysis beyond climate. Key research questions focus on the GHG efficiency gap, integrated analysis of ecosystem services and value chains, scenarios, and thresholds. Research is also needed on climate adaptation, livestock biodiversity, and using big data to scale up interventions while maintaining specificity.
This document provides an overview and agenda for the Soil Health CIG Symposium. It discusses a project conducted by American Farmland Trust to quantify the economic, environmental, and soil health outcomes of conservation practices on four farms located in California, Illinois, Ohio, and New York. The project utilized partial budget analysis, the Nutrient Tracking Tool, and the COMET-Farm Tool to analyze impacts. Key findings included yield increases, higher net incomes, reduced input costs, and improvements to water quality and greenhouse gas emissions from the soil health practices. The document outlines the project objectives, methods, case studies developed, and plans to disseminate results to farmers and conservation partners.
Presentation by PK Joshi, International Food Policy Research Institute, at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The document summarizes Cornell University's Climate Smart Farming Program which helps farmers in the Northeast U.S. adapt to and mitigate climate change. The program conducts research on climate impacts, develops decision tools and resources for farmers, and provides outreach and extension services. It aims to increase farm resilience and sustainability while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
Sustainable Practice Targets - an overviewJoanna Hicks
- Caring for our Country aims to achieve an environment that is healthy, protected, resilient and provides essential ecosystem services like clean air and water and healthy soils despite climate change.
- Key targets were developed based on ministerial outcomes, international obligations, the EPBC Act, national strategies and recommendations to improve soil condition.
- Factors considered included assets to protect, available information, ability to measure impact and funding levels.
- Healthy soils are important as they support food production, store carbon and water, and support biodiversity. Practices to improve soil condition focus on carbon, pH, wind and water erosion and deliver productivity, ecosystem services and climate resilience.
- Progress will be monitored through the Agricultural Resource
Methodologies to Measure Nutrient Reduction and to Aggregate Results at the P...Iwl Pcu
Ramesh Kanwar
Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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Aaron Zazueta and Jitendra Srivastava
Global Environmental Facility and the World Bank
1818 H St. NW Washington D.C. 20433, USA
CONTENTS
A. Introduction – major sources of nonpoint source pollution
B. Key motivators for monitoring – Hypoxia/regulations/EU Nitrate Directive
C. Objectives of nutrient reduction programs
D. Key water quality or stress indicators for assessment nutrient reduction
E. Water quality laws or standards for nutrients for water bodies
F. What is current status of science on nutrient reduction? What do we know?
F. Developing methods for assessment – local, country, & global level
G. Analysis, interpretation, and reporting of data – use of models
H. Using Romania example to move from pilot level on to national level as country is willing to borrow 50 m euros to conduct national level assessment
H. Discussion
Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006
Brief On Sustainable Agriculture Precious FinalDavidAndersson
Sustainable agriculture aims to address issues with conventional agriculture like persistent poverty, hunger, and environmental damage. It involves practices that integrate soil, crop, and livestock production while reducing external inputs and emphasizing techniques adapted to local conditions. Studies show organic and sustainable systems in developing countries can produce higher yields than conventional farms and meet global food demand. However, adoption of sustainable practices remains low due to constraints like lack of information, biomass availability, and unsupportive policies. Recommendations include tailored approaches, market support, institutional strengthening, and research to further understanding and address myths about sustainable agriculture.
Ecosystem Services in plantations: from economic valuations to market-based i...CIFOR-ICRAF
This document summarizes a study that evaluated ecosystem services under different landscape management scenarios in Australia. The study assessed carbon sequestration, agriculture production, water, biodiversity and timber across 5 future land use scenarios: business-as-usual, mosaic farming landscapes, eco-centric, agro-centric, and abandoned land use. The analysis found that business-as-usual and abandoned land use were not sustainable and led to declining ecosystem services. Agro-centric produced good economic outputs but poor environmental outcomes. Mosaic farming landscapes and eco-centric produced better environmental outcomes but eco-centric was not commercially attractive. Supplemental payments were needed to restore the environment.
Policy for Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture/Rice Development in Contex...Sri Lmb
Ms. Ladda Viriyangura presented on 'Policy for Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture/Rice Development in Context of Climate Change in Thailand' at Regional Review and Planning Workshop 2017, Hanoi, VIetnam
Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS) Training Sept 9, 2013IFPRI-EPTD
Globally, agriculture is responsible for 10 – 14% of GHG emissions and largest source of no-CO2 GHG emissions. Countries can choose among a portfolio of growth-inducing technologies with different emission characteristics. We believe that is less costly to avoid high-emissions lock-in than replace high-emissions technologies. There's a need to encourage Low Emission Development Strategies.
Policies and finance to scale-up Climate-Smart Livestock SystemsILRI
Presented by William Sutton, Pierre Gerber, Leah Germer, Félix Teillard, Clark Halpern, Benjamin Henderson, Michael Mcleod and Lee Cando at the Programme for Climate-Smart Livestock systems Closing Event, 13 September 2022
Presentation by Alex De Pinto, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
International conference on agricultural emissions and food security: Connecting research to policy and practice
10-13 September 2018
Berlin, Germany
Dr. Marty Matlock - Aligning Aquaculture KPI Metrics with Other Livestock Sec...John Blue
Aligning Aquaculture KPI Metrics with Other Livestock Sectors to Accelerate Industry Growth - Dr. Marty Matlock, Center for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability, University of Arkansas, from the 2017 NIAA Annual Conference, U.S. Animal Agriculture's Future Role In World Food Production - Obstacles & Opportunities, April 4 - 6, Columbus, OH, USA.
More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2017_niaa_us_animal_ag_future_role_world_food_production
This document provides an overview of climate change impacts on agriculture presented by David Zilberman from UC Berkeley. It discusses how climate change will directly impact agriculture through warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns. It also summarizes potential effects on yields from factors like increased carbon fertilization and northward migration of pests. The document then outlines challenges to adapting agriculture to climate change, like high adjustment costs and impacts on biodiversity. It proposes strategies such as developing new crop varieties and payment programs for carbon sequestration.
Breakout Sessions Slide
Predictive Soil Health Economic Calculator: An Overview – Chellie Maples, Dr. Michelle Perez, and Ben Wiercinski discussed the Excel-based Predictive Soil Health Economic Calculator (P-SHEC) Tool to generate short & long-term estimates of soil health practice use in row crops.
Monday, February 12, 4:35 - 5:00 p.m.
Financial incentives for conservation practices on farms have totaled $7.2 billion over five years, but have shown questionable results. Voluntary conservation programs have inherent weaknesses, as the most popular practices are not always the most effective, and changes in land use are often not lasting. While gains were reported in some areas like stream buffers and grassed waterways, these were offset by losses, so the net impact was minimal. To drive more durable change, programs need to focus on landscape-scale results, technical support, and local accountability to ensure conservation responsibilities are met.
This document discusses climate smart agriculture (CSA) and outlines its importance, principles, and practices. It defines CSA as an integrated approach that addresses food security and climate change challenges by sustainably supporting agricultural development. The three pillars of CSA are increasing productivity, adapting to climate impacts, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Some key CSA practices mentioned include intercropping, conservation agriculture, water management structures, agroforestry, and livestock improvements. The document also outlines CSA activities being implemented in Ethiopia, such as watershed management, drought-resistant crops, and apiculture. While CSA provides benefits, the author notes challenges of long drought spells and pastoralist migration due to lack of feed.
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The document contains multiple repetitions of the phrase "Share your photos with #NACD2024" tagged with various organizations and individuals such as the Nebraska's Natural Resources District, North Carolina Association of SWCDs, Association of Illinois SWCDs, Georgia Association of CDs, Kentucky Association of CDs, Oklahoma County Conservation District, and Bill & Becky Dunn. It appears to be promoting sharing photos from an event using the hashtag #NACD2024.
Symposium Session Slides
Putting Farmers at the Center of Regenerative Agriculture Engagement Planning – Deborah Carter McCoy, Rebecca Bartels, and Suzy Friedman with the Midwest Row Crop Collaborative, Trust In Food, and the WWF will lead a planning process based on insights from their behavior change research to accelerate regenerative agriculture acceptance by producers. The panelists will be Deborah Carter McCoy from Environmental Initiative, Rebecca Bartels from Trust In Food, and Suzy Friedman from the World Wildlife Fund.
Wednesday, February 14, 8:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Conservation Delivery in Pacific Island Communities – Mae Nakahata discusses experiences with building support capacity and technologies that are scaled/adapted to serve the non-traditional agriculture systems of Pacific Islands will be shared. CNMI, GU & HI – led presentation.
Monday, February 12, 4:00 - 4:25 p.m.
Breakout Session Slide Pt. 2
Advancing Producer Engagement and MMRV in Ecosystem Services Markets: Lessons Learned from Three Years Conducting Projects – Alana Pacheco and Lars Dyrud will highlight three years of lessons learned from ESMC’s Eco-Harvest market projects and discuss program specifics, opportunities for participation, and private sector advancement of reduced soil sampling costs through the latest in MMRV.
Tuesday, February 13, 2:20 - 3:00 p.m.
Breakout Session Slide Pt. 1
Advancing Producer Engagement and MMRV in Ecosystem Services Markets: Lessons Learned from Three Years Conducting Projects – Alana Pacheco and Lars Dyrud will highlight three years of lessons learned from ESMC’s Eco-Harvest market projects and discuss program specifics, opportunities for participation, and private sector advancement of reduced soil sampling costs through the latest in MMRV.
Tuesday, February 13, 2:20 - 3:00 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides Pt. 3
Converging Ag Drainage with Water Quality – Mike Libben discusses how the Ottawa SWCD (Ohio) has blended the need for agricultural drainage and increased water quality for Lake Erie by integrating projects that accomplish both goals and brings partners together.
Tuesday, February 13, 1:30 - 2:10 p.m.
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Breakout Session Slides Pt. 2
Converging Ag Drainage with Water Quality – Mike Libben discusses how the Ottawa SWCD (Ohio) has blended the need for agricultural drainage and increased water quality for Lake Erie by integrating projects that accomplish both goals and brings partners together.
Tuesday, February 13, 1:30 - 2:10 p.m.
*Due to the size of the powerpoint, this was uploaded as three separate powerpoints. This is the second one, please continue to the other two for the full presentation*
Breakout Session Slides Pt. 1
Converging Ag Drainage with Water Quality – Mike Libben discusses how the Ottawa SWCD (Ohio) has blended the need for agricultural drainage and increased water quality for Lake Erie by integrating projects that accomplish both goals and brings partners together.
Tuesday, February 13, 1:30 - 2:10 p.m.
*Due to the size of the powerpoint, this was uploaded as three separate powerpoints. This is the first one, please continue to the next two for the full presentation*
Breakout Session Slides
OpTIS: New National Baseline Data for Climate-Smart Ag – David Gustafson discusses how no-till and cover crops are leading climate-smart practices, which OpTIS tracks using satellite data. This session will feature the latest OpTIS release, which includes data for all lower 48 states.
Tuesday, February 13, 1:30 - 2:10 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Carbon Sequestration and Soil Health – Andrea Kreiner and Jan Lee discuss the website OACD prepared on soil health & carbon sequestration with researched information, links to tools and articles; and an accompanying guidebook for district use in working with sequestration.
Monday, February 12, 4:00 - 4:25 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Dirty Water Bugs Us! Pesticide Education for Urban Communities – Lynn Pilewski discusses how the GCSWCD has modified PuttSkee, an interactive game, to educate urban citizens on safe use of insecticides and herbicides. The activity, paired with simple messaging, has been effective and engaging.
Tuesday, February 13 3:30 - 4:10 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Climate Adapted Native Plant Materials Project: Practical Innovation for an Uncertain Future – Mike Conroy will discuss how the Tualatin SWCD is evaluating assisted migration to augment the genetic fitness of native plants used in restoration projects. The core of this project is a long-term common garden experiment.
Monday, February 12 3:05 - 3:30 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Scaling Agroforestry in US Agriculture – Maya Glicksman will define agroforestry, discuss new opportunities to support agroforestry adoption, and highlight areas for continued advocacy administratively and legislatively.
Monday, February 12, 3:05 - 3:30 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Maximum Partnerships: Building Partnership between National Programs and Local Implementation – Jessia McGuire and Drew Larsen discussed how PF and QF partnership staff (Precision Ag Conservation Specialist, Farm Bill / Coordinating Biologist, Habitat Specialist, Range Conservationist, & Outreach Coordinator) provide needed capacity in many areas of the country to address resource needs. The session focused on sharing the many opportunities for partnering to impact agriculture and local resource concerns and better serve cooperators as well as maximize the value of existing partnerships.
Tuesday, February 13 4:20 - 5:00 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Encouraging Urban Green Infrastructure Practices for Climate Resiliency – Jennifer Fish will discuss how Green Infrastructure above the minimum stormwater standards is important to community sustainability. This includes designing for future storm events and better using existing environmental services.
Monday, February 12, 2:30 - 2:55 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Community Outreach Through Nontraditional Ag Farmer to Farmer Coffee Talks – Sharon Autry will discuss Nontraditional Ag Farmer to Farmer Coffee Talks, which cover topics that are relevant to small/medium scale producers and offer an opportunity to build community and collaboration.
Monday, February 12 3:05 - 3:30 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Bridging the Gap: A Partnership Between an Ag Retailer and Local Government – Kolby Beehler discusses how the Morrison SWCD partnered with a local agricultural retailer on a joint conservation agronomist position. Two years later they have had achievements and challenges and want to share their experiences.
Tuesday, February 13, 3:30 - 4:10 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Unconventional Partnering – The Voluntary Stewardship Program, CDs, and Counties – Bill Eller discusses conservation district partners with non-traditional regulatory partners (counties) to replace critical area protection regulations with voluntary, incentive-based practices.
Monday, February 12 4:35 - 5:00 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Water Quality of Life – Jim Hess discusses how the Elkhart County SWCD has taken conservation to the next level and is offering property tax incentives for the “Good Stewards of the Land”. Please read the 2022 NACD Annual Report page 39-40.
Monday, February 12 4:00 - 4:25 p.m.
Breakout Session Slides
Making Connections Maximizes Watershed Restoration Project – Lynn Pilewski and Kirsten Robertson will discuss how one group assembled a wide array of non-profit, governmental, and private companies to work together to fund and implement a multi-faceted watershed plan in South Carolina.
Monday, February 12, 3:05 - 3:30 p.m.
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A healthy, safe, secure and sustainable solid waste management system fit for a world – class city.
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The status.
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collection efficiently is at about 50%.
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Solid waste generation – collection – dumping
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• Nairobi is one of the C40 cities in this respect , various actors in the solid waste management space have adopted a variety of technologies to reduce short lived climate pollutants including source separation , recycling , marketing of the recycled products.
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Good practices:
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• Resource Allocation.
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American Farmland Trust Soil Health Case Studies
1. Aaron Ristow, M.S. – AFT Author & NY Stewardship Manager
Michelle Perez, PhD – AFT Project Leader & Water Director
Florence Swartz – Consultant, Retired NRCS NY Economist
NACD ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Soil Health Case Studies:
Quantifying Economic,
Water Quality, & Climate Outcomes
2. Outline
• Why quantify outcomes?
• SH CIG Project Overview
• Goals
• Team
• Methods
• Results
3. Why quantify soil health outcomes?
Evidence that no-till/strip-till, cover crops,
nutrient management improve water
quality & soil health
Not much information about economic
benefits linked with better soil health
The agricultural community (farmers,
retailers, landlords, bankers, etc.) want to
know the “bottom line”
5. Project Goal
Drive adoption of soil health practices by:
Quantifying the economic & environmental
outcomes associated with these management
changes
Increasing awareness
Developing a persuasive education tool to help
convince farmers to adopt these practices on
owned and rented land
6. Meet the Team
Michelle Perez
Project Leader
Water Initiative Director
Florence Swartz
Project Economist
Retired NRCS NY Economist
7. Meet the AFT Authors
Aaron Ristow
NY Stewardship Mgr
Emily Bruner, PhD
Midwest Science Director
Justin Bodell
CA Stewardship Manager
Brian Brandt
Ag Innovations Director, OH
8. External Reviewers
NRCS Economists
• Bryon Kirwan, Illinois State Economist
• Lynn Knight, Economist, East Region
• Lakeitha Ruffin, Oregon State Economist
NRCS Soil Health Specialists
• Kabir Zahangir, West Regional Soil Health
Specialist
• James Hoorman, NE Regional Soil Health
Specialist
•NTT Reviewer
•Mindy Selman, USDA
Office of Ecosystem
Markets
•COMET-Farm Reviewer
•Matthew Stermer, Colorado
State University
18. Yield & Income Benefits of Soil Health
Practices Across Six Crop Farms
Improved Yield:
1 farm reported no yield change while
5 reported yield increases
Range: 2% to 22% for at least one of the
crops grown
Annual Change in Per Acre Net Income:
6 farms reported increases
Average increase: $41/ac/yr
Range: $22 to $56/ac/yr
Return on Investment:
6 farms reported positive ROI
Average was 151%
Range was 35% to 343%
19. Input Benefits & Costs of Soil Health
Practices Across Six Farms
Changes to Fertilizer Costs:
1 farm increased costs while
5 farms reduced costs
Average savings: $36/ac/yr
Range: $18 & $66/ac/yr
Changes to Machinery, Fuel, and
Labor Costs:
1 farm reported no change while
5 farms reduced costs
Average savings: $31/ac/yr
Range: $20 to $60/ac/yr
20. Input Benefits & Costs of Soil Health
Practices Across Six Farms
Pesticide Usage:
(Herbicide, Insecticide, and Fungicide)
2 farms reported no change while
4 reported changes
2 farms increased by an average of
$8/ac/yr; Range: $5 & $11/ac/yr
2 farms decreased by average of
$17/ac/yr; Range: $15 to $19/ac/yr
Learning Costs:
Average: $3.12/ac/yr
Ranged from $440 to $12,940/yr or
44 cents to $10.35/ac/yr
21. Environmental Benefits of Soil Health
Practices Across all Six Farms
Water Quality Improvement:
All 6 row crop farmers observed reduced soil and water runoff
On selected fields, NTT estimated:
Average reduction in N losses was 61% (range was 23to 72%);
Average reduction in P losses was 74% (range was 33to 92%); &
Average reduction in sediment losses was 81% (range was 37to 99%
Climate Improvement:
On selected fields, COMET-Farm estimated total GHG emissions were
reduced an average of 217% (range was 35 to 560%)
23. Jay Swede, NY, diversified crop rotation
Genesee County Genesee River Watershed;
Sweet corn, alfalfa, corn silage, grain corn
Study area: 1,500 / 4,500 acres
No-till, strip-till, cover crops, & nutrient management
Cover crops: 450/ac/yr, oats, wheat, radishes or a mix in
sweet corn after alfalfa, and corn silage
NTT results: On a 25-acre field, N, P, & sediment reduced by 40, 92, & 96%
COMET results: Same field, total GHG reduced by 560%, taking 3 cars off road
Annual SH Benefits: $106,079
Annual SH Costs: $23,822
Annual SH PROFITS: $82,257 or $55/ac
(2018 dollars)
343% ROI
26. Farmer Uses of the Case Studies
We hope farmers will:
Read the case studies & try one soil
health practice w/ or w/o help
AFT, 2 ag retailers, NRCS, & SWCD are
at the ready to help
Say “yes” to a “Predictive
Assessment”
AFT is offering 4 “soil health curious
farmers” the service of running “what if”
scenarios => potential, future economic,
water quality, & climate benefits
27. Farmer Uses of the Case Studies
We hope farmers will share the
case studies with:
Existing landowners - To discuss
sharing the risks and rewards of the soil
health investments
New landowners – To add new fields
Bankers –To secure additional financing
for the farm expansion
28. Uses of the Case Studies by the
Conservation Community
We hope:
Government partners - NRCS,
SWCD, & Extension
Non-profit
Private sector - Ag retailers, crop
consultants, cover crop seed
dealers, strip-till equipment
providers, etc.
Use the case studies with their farm
customers to help answer questions
about the costs & benefits of adopting
soil health practices.
29. Contact Info
Michelle Perez
Water Initiative Director
mperez@farmland.org
Aaron Ristow
NY Stewardship Manager
aristow@farmland.org
Download the case studies at:
farmland.org/soilhealthcasestudies
To sign-up for a training, email:
SHtraining@farmland.org
Editor's Notes
SH Photo from Dee Ann Littlefield
National Conservation Innovation Grant examining the economic, environmental benefits of soil health practice implementation on farms across the country.
I’ll start with an overview of why the project is needed and the overarching goals, spend a little time introducing the team and all the work that went on behind the scenes to make these case studies happen, then wrap up with summarizing the results for three of the four case studies that have been published so far (as these three are the most relevant to the Midwest Region)
Then I will ask a few questions of the audience myself and open it up to questions from the group
This proposed project incorporates all four factors as core elements to our innovative approach which combines use of quantification tools to generate and disseminate case studies that showcase quantified outcomes with an effort to improve relationships between landowners and farmers and a focus on providing effective technical and financial assistance to aid SHMS adoption
Define soil health for this audience
the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans. - NRCS definition
Second round including university economists – Remember to give a shout out to Gary for his review of the Ifft Case Study
Photo Credit - Edwin Remsberg and USDA-SARE. Collected by Brennan.
Photo Credit - Edwin Remsberg and USDA-SARE. Collected by Brennan.
Funding from USDA's Office of Environmental Markets
CA – Almond grower; NM, CC, Mulch, Compost
IL – Corn/Soy; CC, Strip-till, NT, NM;
Corn/Soy; Cover crops; NM
OH – Corn/Soy; NT, CC, NM;
Corn/Soy; Strip-till, CC, NM
NY – Alfalfa, Corn Silage or Grain, Strip-till, CC, N.M.;
Grain corn, Soy and Wheat; NT,CC, NM
Photo Credit - Edwin Remsberg and USDA-SARE. Collected by Brennan.
Niemeyer (OH) spends time learning for his cover crop consulting business too (so we took ½ his learning costs for the farm operation).
Make the wording more consistence
Photo Credit - Edwin Remsberg and USDA-SARE. Collected by Brennan.