Centre for International Forestry Research: Landscapes and food systems CIFOR-ICRAF
The document summarizes a presentation by Terry Sunderland from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) about CIFOR's work on landscapes and food systems. CIFOR conducts research on how forests, trees, and agriculture interact at the landscape scale. Key points include: CIFOR uses a landscape approach to understand complex land use systems; it has projects analyzing the link between tree cover and nutrition using national health survey data; and it aims to better integrate agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management through approaches like agroforestry and landscape management.
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
Role of SEEA Framework for Valuation of Natural ResourcesMohdFaisalKhan10
The document discusses the SEEA (System of Environmental-Economic Accounting) framework for valuing natural resources. It provides an overview of the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting approach, which complements the SEEA Central Framework. Examples are given of accounting for ecosystem extent, condition, and services. Thematic accounts covering areas like land, carbon, and water are also discussed. The document then covers valuation approaches in ecosystem accounting and provides lessons learned from natural capital accounting projects.
Diagnostic of how the submitted FREL could be improved to better align with ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
This presentation was given on 25 June 2019 by Marta Suber (ICRAF) for the CCAFS and USAID webinar Making trees count: MRV for agroforestry under UNFCCC. See the introductory presentation for more detail: Agroforestry for livelihoods and climate.
Zambia’s forest reference emission level for the unfcccCIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Deuteronomy Kasaro and Abel M Siampale at the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
Presented by Oswaldo Carrillo from CIFOR, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
Centre for International Forestry Research: Landscapes and food systems CIFOR-ICRAF
The document summarizes a presentation by Terry Sunderland from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) about CIFOR's work on landscapes and food systems. CIFOR conducts research on how forests, trees, and agriculture interact at the landscape scale. Key points include: CIFOR uses a landscape approach to understand complex land use systems; it has projects analyzing the link between tree cover and nutrition using national health survey data; and it aims to better integrate agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management through approaches like agroforestry and landscape management.
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
Role of SEEA Framework for Valuation of Natural ResourcesMohdFaisalKhan10
The document discusses the SEEA (System of Environmental-Economic Accounting) framework for valuing natural resources. It provides an overview of the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting approach, which complements the SEEA Central Framework. Examples are given of accounting for ecosystem extent, condition, and services. Thematic accounts covering areas like land, carbon, and water are also discussed. The document then covers valuation approaches in ecosystem accounting and provides lessons learned from natural capital accounting projects.
Diagnostic of how the submitted FREL could be improved to better align with ...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
This presentation was given on 25 June 2019 by Marta Suber (ICRAF) for the CCAFS and USAID webinar Making trees count: MRV for agroforestry under UNFCCC. See the introductory presentation for more detail: Agroforestry for livelihoods and climate.
Zambia’s forest reference emission level for the unfcccCIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Deuteronomy Kasaro and Abel M Siampale at the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
Presented by Oswaldo Carrillo from CIFOR, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
The wealth of scientific data to support FOLU Net Sinks 2030CIFOR-ICRAF
This document contains summaries of the work packages for a project on forests and climate. It discusses generating data to support transparency frameworks and developing refined emission factors for key ecosystems like peatlands. It also outlines mapping REDD+ finance mechanisms in Indonesia and analyzing how safeguards and rights-based approaches can be implemented. The final work package aims to integrate findings across work packages to propose interventions and increase stakeholder engagement through a diagnostic framework and policy scenarios.
"Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century: Climate change mitigation opportunities and challenges" was presented by Lini Wollenberg online at the KfW Webinar on May 28, 2020.
AR5 AFOLU mitigation challenges and prospects for Africaipcc-media
This document summarizes a presentation on agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) mitigation challenges and prospects for Africa. It notes that AFOLU accounts for approximately 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and discusses challenges including financing, poverty, institutional barriers, and competition for land. It also outlines options for managing trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation efforts in the AFOLU sector.
Forest Development Planning for Climate Change Resilience and Poverty ReductionCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was delivered at the third Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016, in Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines.
The five sub-thematic streams at APFW 2016 included:
Pathways to prosperity: Future trade and markets
Tackling climate change: challenges and opportunities
Serving society: forestry and people
New institutions, new governance
Our green future: green investment and growing our natural assets
Implications of the AR finding in the AFOLU sector in Africaipcc-media
This document discusses Africa's opportunities for low-carbon, climate-resilient development in the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector. It notes that AFOLU is responsible for about 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and outlines trends showing emissions increasing despite reduction efforts. The document then discusses challenges Africa faces in mitigation given expected emissions increases from food production. However, it also outlines large mitigation potential through land-based strategies like agriculture, forestry, and bioenergy. Key uncertainties are incomplete data and accounting for non-forest ecosystems and fluxes. Managing trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation is also discussed.
This document discusses Africa's opportunities for low-carbon, climate-resilient development in the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector. It notes that AFOLU is responsible for about 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and provides livelihoods for many in Africa. While AFOLU emissions have increased in recent decades, the sector also offers significant mitigation potential through practices like improved forest and land management, sustainable agriculture, and bioenergy. Realizing this potential faces challenges around food security, access to finance and technology, and managing risks and trade-offs. Robust measurement, reporting and verification systems will also be needed to account for emissions across forests and non-forest lands.
This document outlines the outcomes and activities of Kenya's Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development Project. The project aimed to [1] strengthen national climate change coordination, [2] enhance access to clean energy, [3] establish a national greenhouse gas inventory system, [4] improve climate change decision-making tools, and [5] build climate change capacity and resilience. It identifies gaps in Kenya's existing greenhouse gas inventory system and lists actions needed to establish an operational national inventory system, such as developing standardized data collection processes and country-specific emission factors.
This document describes the development of a tool called the CCAFS MOT (Mitigation Options Tool) to help policymakers make decisions about effective mitigation options in agriculture. The tool estimates the mitigation potential of several management options for soils and ranks them according to their potential. It combines several empirical models to estimate greenhouse gas emissions. The developers are refining the tool through workshops with national planners and researchers to identify needed information.
Presentation by Liesl Wiese-Rozanova, International agricultural science and policy consultant, South Africa. The presentation was part of the Webinar on Soil carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions hosted by CCAFS, the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the 4 Per Mille Initiative and held on Earth Day, 22 April 2020.
Measurement Reporting Verification system in Papua New GuineaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Alfred Rungol of the Climate Change & Development Authority of Papua New Guinea at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit. http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
This document summarizes the global achievements and ongoing work of the Forests, Trees and Agroforestry program from 2011-2014. It discusses key outputs including over 10 million people benefiting from improved livelihoods and around 15 million hectares of forests and agroforests better managed. It also highlights several ongoing spatial monitoring and data sharing initiatives. Finally, it provides examples of projects in Latin America focusing on issues like climate change mitigation, forest management, and support for smallholder farmers.
I. Business-as-usual intensification alone will not achieve the necessary emissions reductions in agriculture by 2030 to limit warming to 2°C.
II. Plausible mitigation practices can achieve only 10-40% of needed reductions by 2030.
III. Significant mitigation can be achieved by reducing conversion of forests to agriculture, but requires location-specific interventions to avoid deforestation.
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Rocío Cóndor, FAO, was prepared for the “Sub-Regional Dialogue on the MRV framework West Africa,” held on October 4-6 2016, in Lomé, Togo. It presents the key elements of Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use sector.
The document discusses Uganda's efforts to develop a National Greenhouse Gas Inventory System to estimate and report on its greenhouse gas emissions as required by the UNFCCC. Key points:
- Uganda is finalizing its National Inventory System with support from UNDP to estimate emissions by sector and meet its reporting obligations.
- The system will enhance Uganda's preparation of technical reports and commitments like its Nationally Determined Contribution.
- Further capacity building is needed, especially in developing country-specific emission factors, improving data collection methods, and establishing a center of excellence for greenhouse gas inventories.
The inception workshop of the recently launched FAO/GEF “Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)" project, funded under the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The objective of the FAO/GEF CBIT-Forest project is to strengthen institutional and technical capacities of developing countries on forest-related data collection, analysis and dissemination processes, in order to meet the enhanced transparency requirements of the Paris Agreement. Brief information is available here.
The aim of workshop was to:
• Introduce the FAO/GEF CBIT-Forest global project
• Present and discuss the workplan of the project
• Collect comments and suggestions for the implementation of project activities
Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and U...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Daniel Murdiyarso and Rupesh Kumar Bhomia, CIFOR, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, April 17th, 2020
Side event at SBSTA48 on May 8 2018 in Bonn.
Theme: Countries require sub-national projects to fulfil NDC commitments, but project accounting, often driven by donors or investors, rarely links to national accounting systems for mitigation and other benefits. Livestock projects in Latin America may reveal how to connect NAMAs and national MRV systems.
More about the event is available at: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/bonn-climate-change-conference-2018-improving-transparency-linking-mrv-and-finance-livestock-namas#.WvK3SC-B2LI
Presenters: Hayden Montgomery (GRA), Meryl Richards (CCAFS), Joao Lampreia (Carbon Trust Brazil), Ericka Lucero (Ministry of Environment, Guatemala), Walter Oyhantcabal (Ministry of Agriculture, Uruguay).
Facilitators: Lini Wollenberg (CCAFS), Martial Bernoux (FAO)
Overview of CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Presentation to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
16 October 2018, Beijing, China
Presented by Lini Wollenberg, Low Emissions Development Flagship Leader, CCAFS
The wealth of scientific data to support FOLU Net Sinks 2030CIFOR-ICRAF
This document contains summaries of the work packages for a project on forests and climate. It discusses generating data to support transparency frameworks and developing refined emission factors for key ecosystems like peatlands. It also outlines mapping REDD+ finance mechanisms in Indonesia and analyzing how safeguards and rights-based approaches can be implemented. The final work package aims to integrate findings across work packages to propose interventions and increase stakeholder engagement through a diagnostic framework and policy scenarios.
"Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century: Climate change mitigation opportunities and challenges" was presented by Lini Wollenberg online at the KfW Webinar on May 28, 2020.
AR5 AFOLU mitigation challenges and prospects for Africaipcc-media
This document summarizes a presentation on agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) mitigation challenges and prospects for Africa. It notes that AFOLU accounts for approximately 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and discusses challenges including financing, poverty, institutional barriers, and competition for land. It also outlines options for managing trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation efforts in the AFOLU sector.
Forest Development Planning for Climate Change Resilience and Poverty ReductionCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation was delivered at the third Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016, in Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines.
The five sub-thematic streams at APFW 2016 included:
Pathways to prosperity: Future trade and markets
Tackling climate change: challenges and opportunities
Serving society: forestry and people
New institutions, new governance
Our green future: green investment and growing our natural assets
Implications of the AR finding in the AFOLU sector in Africaipcc-media
This document discusses Africa's opportunities for low-carbon, climate-resilient development in the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector. It notes that AFOLU is responsible for about 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and outlines trends showing emissions increasing despite reduction efforts. The document then discusses challenges Africa faces in mitigation given expected emissions increases from food production. However, it also outlines large mitigation potential through land-based strategies like agriculture, forestry, and bioenergy. Key uncertainties are incomplete data and accounting for non-forest ecosystems and fluxes. Managing trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation is also discussed.
This document discusses Africa's opportunities for low-carbon, climate-resilient development in the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector. It notes that AFOLU is responsible for about 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions and provides livelihoods for many in Africa. While AFOLU emissions have increased in recent decades, the sector also offers significant mitigation potential through practices like improved forest and land management, sustainable agriculture, and bioenergy. Realizing this potential faces challenges around food security, access to finance and technology, and managing risks and trade-offs. Robust measurement, reporting and verification systems will also be needed to account for emissions across forests and non-forest lands.
This document outlines the outcomes and activities of Kenya's Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development Project. The project aimed to [1] strengthen national climate change coordination, [2] enhance access to clean energy, [3] establish a national greenhouse gas inventory system, [4] improve climate change decision-making tools, and [5] build climate change capacity and resilience. It identifies gaps in Kenya's existing greenhouse gas inventory system and lists actions needed to establish an operational national inventory system, such as developing standardized data collection processes and country-specific emission factors.
This document describes the development of a tool called the CCAFS MOT (Mitigation Options Tool) to help policymakers make decisions about effective mitigation options in agriculture. The tool estimates the mitigation potential of several management options for soils and ranks them according to their potential. It combines several empirical models to estimate greenhouse gas emissions. The developers are refining the tool through workshops with national planners and researchers to identify needed information.
Presentation by Liesl Wiese-Rozanova, International agricultural science and policy consultant, South Africa. The presentation was part of the Webinar on Soil carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions hosted by CCAFS, the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the 4 Per Mille Initiative and held on Earth Day, 22 April 2020.
Measurement Reporting Verification system in Papua New GuineaCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Alfred Rungol of the Climate Change & Development Authority of Papua New Guinea at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit. http://www.cifor.org/asia-pacific-rainforest-summit/
This document summarizes the global achievements and ongoing work of the Forests, Trees and Agroforestry program from 2011-2014. It discusses key outputs including over 10 million people benefiting from improved livelihoods and around 15 million hectares of forests and agroforests better managed. It also highlights several ongoing spatial monitoring and data sharing initiatives. Finally, it provides examples of projects in Latin America focusing on issues like climate change mitigation, forest management, and support for smallholder farmers.
I. Business-as-usual intensification alone will not achieve the necessary emissions reductions in agriculture by 2030 to limit warming to 2°C.
II. Plausible mitigation practices can achieve only 10-40% of needed reductions by 2030.
III. Significant mitigation can be achieved by reducing conversion of forests to agriculture, but requires location-specific interventions to avoid deforestation.
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Rocío Cóndor, FAO, was prepared for the “Sub-Regional Dialogue on the MRV framework West Africa,” held on October 4-6 2016, in Lomé, Togo. It presents the key elements of Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use sector.
The document discusses Uganda's efforts to develop a National Greenhouse Gas Inventory System to estimate and report on its greenhouse gas emissions as required by the UNFCCC. Key points:
- Uganda is finalizing its National Inventory System with support from UNDP to estimate emissions by sector and meet its reporting obligations.
- The system will enhance Uganda's preparation of technical reports and commitments like its Nationally Determined Contribution.
- Further capacity building is needed, especially in developing country-specific emission factors, improving data collection methods, and establishing a center of excellence for greenhouse gas inventories.
The inception workshop of the recently launched FAO/GEF “Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)" project, funded under the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) trust fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The objective of the FAO/GEF CBIT-Forest project is to strengthen institutional and technical capacities of developing countries on forest-related data collection, analysis and dissemination processes, in order to meet the enhanced transparency requirements of the Paris Agreement. Brief information is available here.
The aim of workshop was to:
• Introduce the FAO/GEF CBIT-Forest global project
• Present and discuss the workplan of the project
• Collect comments and suggestions for the implementation of project activities
Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and U...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Daniel Murdiyarso and Rupesh Kumar Bhomia, CIFOR, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, April 17th, 2020
Side event at SBSTA48 on May 8 2018 in Bonn.
Theme: Countries require sub-national projects to fulfil NDC commitments, but project accounting, often driven by donors or investors, rarely links to national accounting systems for mitigation and other benefits. Livestock projects in Latin America may reveal how to connect NAMAs and national MRV systems.
More about the event is available at: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/bonn-climate-change-conference-2018-improving-transparency-linking-mrv-and-finance-livestock-namas#.WvK3SC-B2LI
Presenters: Hayden Montgomery (GRA), Meryl Richards (CCAFS), Joao Lampreia (Carbon Trust Brazil), Ericka Lucero (Ministry of Environment, Guatemala), Walter Oyhantcabal (Ministry of Agriculture, Uruguay).
Facilitators: Lini Wollenberg (CCAFS), Martial Bernoux (FAO)
Overview of CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Presentation to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
16 October 2018, Beijing, China
Presented by Lini Wollenberg, Low Emissions Development Flagship Leader, CCAFS
The document provides an overview of options for greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture. It discusses:
1) Agriculture contributes significantly to global emissions and reductions are necessary to meet climate targets. Many mitigation practices are compatible with sustainable development goals.
2) Key greenhouse gases from agriculture include methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide. Soils can also store carbon.
3) Common mitigation practices discussed include alternate wetting and drying of rice fields, livestock management improvements, efficient fertilizer use, agroforestry, and reducing food loss and waste.
4) The EX-ACT tool is introduced as a way to estimate and compare emissions between baseline and project scenarios to identify mitigation opportunities in agriculture
"Challenges, opportunities and priorities for transitioning to low emissions agriculture" was presented by Lini Wollenberg at a NUI Galway seminar on January 30, 2020.
This module discusses measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation monitoring and evaluation. It provides an overview of UNFCCC requirements for MRV of emissions and actions, and examines existing guidance for evaluating adaptation efforts. Case studies demonstrate how countries can establish MRV systems for agriculture by developing tier 2 emissions calculations that reflect national circumstances and track impacts of interventions over time. The module also explores challenges in evaluating progress on adaptation due to its multi-dimensional nature and lack of standardized metrics, and presents resources that provide guidance on adaptation indicators and monitoring systems.
This document discusses the challenges of climate change for global food security and the role of climate-smart agriculture. It summarizes the following key points:
1. Climate change is already causing crop yield losses in some areas and extreme weather events are expected to intensify in the future, threatening global food security.
2. Climate-smart agriculture promotes technologies, practices, and policies that help communities adapt to climate change, reduce greenhouse gases, and ensure future food security.
3. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security is working with partners in various regions to research, promote, and implement climate-smart agriculture through activities like developing climate information services, insurance products, and policies to support resilient
CCAFS is a research program that addresses the challenges of climate change and food security. It aims to identify solutions to help agriculture adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture's contributions to it. By 2050, food production must increase 60-70% to meet demand. CCAFS conducts place-based research on adaptation, risk management, mitigation and policy in multiple regions. It works to link research to action through capacity building, engagement, and integrating climate and agriculture policies. The program has a $63.2 million budget from CGIAR and other donors.
Linking up to available climate finance: The experience of ZambiaNAP Events
Zambia has taken several steps in developing its National Adaptation Plan (NAP), including capacity building workshops and a roadmap. Key steps in the roadmap include identifying climate impacts and vulnerabilities, analyzing climate scenarios, assessing adaptation options, and prioritizing options. Agricultural options were prioritized through an evidence-based process including analysis of risks, adoption patterns, and food security impacts. Main challenges include limited data and capacity. Priority agricultural adaptation options identified include enhancing smallholder farmer livelihoods and incomes, integrated crop packages, and increasing climate-resilient livestock productivity. Accessing climate finance will require improving local capacity, data management systems, and analysis tools.
Presentation by Ngonidzashe Chirinda, CIAT, at the CLIFF-GRADS workshop on 6-7 October 2019 in Bali.
The two-day workshop was organized by the CCAFS Low Emissions Development Flagship and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA). Read more: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/cliff-grads-workshop
This introductory presentation was given on May 29, 2019, by Lini Wollenberg (CCAFS). She sets the context for presentations by B. Ole Sander (IRRI), Tran Van The (Institute for Agricultural Environment), and Leo Sebastian (CCAFS) and an ensuing discussion with panelists Le Hoang Anh (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam), B. Ole Sander, Tran Van The, and Leo Sebastian.
A recording of the webinar can be found on CCAFS youtube channel: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
The document discusses the development of decision support tools to help prioritize climate-smart agriculture investments and actions. It outlines the need for such tools from governments and donors to move beyond lists of options to identify portfolios of practices. The proposed prioritization tool would use a climate-smart agriculture compendium database and indicators to assess tradeoffs between options across social, economic and environmental dimensions. The tool development process is participatory and aimed at identifying best-bet climate-smart agriculture portfolios for specific contexts through pilots in 2014.
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in Agriculture: An International P...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Peter A Minang (ICRAF and ASB Partnership For the Tropical Forest Margins) presentation on Nationally Appropriate Climate Change Mitigation Actions in Agriculture (NAMAs): An International Perspective. NAMAs are sets of policies and actions undertaken by developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
This document discusses metrics for monitoring climate-smart agriculture. It outlines the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) program's activities related to metrics, including compiling indicators, conducting literature reviews, and providing guidance to metrics users. It discusses challenges around indicator overload and the need for proxies to measure concepts like greenhouse gas emissions and resilience. The document also presents CCAFS' indicator selection tool and database containing over 378 indicators from various organizations.
Climate Readiness in Smallholder Agricultural Systems:Lessons learned from REDD+
Presentation by Monika Zurek at the 3rd Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Montpellier.
Read more: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/3rd-global-science-conference-%E2%80%9Cclimate-smart-agriculture-2015%E2%80%9D#.VRurLUesXX4
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
RBM for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Presented on 23 January 2015.
By Bruce Campbell, Phil Thornton, Ana María Loboguerrero.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS).
The Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project works to deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture.
AICCRA does this by enhancing access to climate information services and climate-smart agricultural technology to millions of smallholder farmers in Africa.
With better access to climate technology and advisory services—linked to information about effective response measures—farmers can better anticipate climate-related events and take preventative action that help communities better safeguard their livelihoods and the environment.
AICCRA is supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank, which is used to enhance research and capacity-building activities by the CGIAR centers and initiatives as well as their partners in Africa.
About IDA: IDA helps the world’s poorest countries by providing grants and low to zero-interest loans for projects and programmes that boost economic growth, reduce poverty, and improve poor people’s lives.
IDA is one of the largest sources of assistance for the world’s 76 poorest countries, 39 of which are in Africa.
Annual IDA commitments have averaged about $21 billion over circa 2017-2020, with approximately 61 percent going to Africa.
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Mengpin Ge, Global Climate Program Associate at WRI, during the webinar "Achieving NDC Ambition in Agriculture" organized by CCAFS, FAO and WRI.
Find the recording and more information here: https://bit.ly/AchievingNDCs
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Sabrina Rose, Policy Consultant at CCAFS, during the webinar "Achieving NDC Ambition in Agriculture" organized by CCAFS, FAO and WRI.
Find the recording and more information here: https://bit.ly/AchievingNDCs
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Krystal Crumpler, Climate Change and Agricultural Specialist at FAO, during the webinar "Achieving NDC Ambition in Agriculture" organized by CCAFS, FAO and WRI.
Find the recording and more information here: https://bit.ly/AchievingNDCs
This presentation was meant to be included in the 2021 CLIFF-GRADS Welcome Webinar and presented by Ciniro Costa Jr. (CCAFS).
The webinar recording can be found here: https://youtu.be/UoX6aoC4fhQ
The multilevel CSA monitoring set of standard core uptake and outcome indicators + expanded indicators linked to a rapid and reliable ICT based data collection instrument to systematically
assess and monitor:
- CSA Adoption/ Access to CIS
- CSA effects on food security and livelihoods household level)
- CSA effects on farm performance
The document discusses plant-based proteins as a potential substitute for animal-based proteins. It notes that plant-based proteins are growing in popularity due to environmental and ethical concerns with animal agriculture. However, plant-based meats also present some health and nutritional challenges compared to animal proteins. The document analyzes opportunities and impacts related to plant-based proteins across Asia, including leveraging the region's soy and pea production and tailoring products to Asian diets and cultural preferences.
Presented by Ciniro Costa Jr., CCAFS, on 28 June 2021 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Webinar on Sustainable Protein Case Study: Outputs and Synthesis of Results.
Presented by Marion de Vries, Wageningen Livestock Research at Wageningen University, on 28 June 2021 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Webinar on Sustainable Protein Case Study: Outputs and Synthesis of Results.
This document assesses the environmental sustainability of plant-based meats and pork in China. It finds that doubling food production while reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by 73% by 2050 will be a major challenge. It compares the life cycle impacts of plant-based meats made from soy, pea, and wheat proteins and oils, as well as pork and beef. The results show that the crop type and source country of the core protein ingredient drives the environmental performance of plant-based meats. The document provides sustainability guidelines for sourcing ingredients from regions with low deforestation risk and irrigation needs, using renewable energy in production, and avoiding coal power.
This document summarizes a case study on the dairy value chain in China. It finds that milk production and consumption have significantly increased in China from 1978 to 2018. Large-scale dairy farms now dominate production. The study evaluates greenhouse gas emissions from different stages and finds feed production is a major contributor. It models options to reduce the carbon footprint, finding improving feed practices and yield have high potential. Land use is also assessed, with soybean meal requiring significant land. Recommendations include changing feeds to lower land and carbon impacts.
This document summarizes information on the impacts of livestock production globally and in Asia. It finds that livestock occupies one third of global cropland and one quarter of ice-free land for pastures. Asia accounts for 32% of global enteric greenhouse gas emissions from livestock, with most emissions coming from India, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Rapid growth of livestock production in Asia is contributing to water and air pollution through nutrient runoff and emissions. The document discusses opportunities for public and private investment in more sustainable and climate-friendly livestock systems through technologies, monitoring, plant-based alternatives, and policies to guide intensification.
Presentation by Han Soethoudt, Jan Broeze, and Heike Axmann of Wageningen University & Resaearch (WUR).
WUR and Olam Rice Nigeria conducted a controlled experiment in Nigeria in which mechanized rice harvesting and threshing were introduced on smallholder farms. The result of the study shows that mechanization considerably reduces losses, has a positive impact on farmers’ income, and the climate.
Learn more: https://www.wur.nl/en/news-wur/show-day/Mechanization-helps-Nigerian-farms-reduce-food-loss-and-increase-income.htm
Presentation on the rapid evidence review findings and key take away messages.
Current evidence for biodiversity and agriculture to achieve and bridging gaps in research and investment to reach multiple global goals.
The document evaluates how climate services provided to farmers in Rwanda through programs like Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) and Radio Listeners’ Clubs (RLC) have impacted women and men differently, finding that the programs have increased women's climate knowledge and participation in agricultural decision making, leading to perceived benefits like higher incomes, food security, and ability to cope with climate risks for both women and men farmers.
This document provides an introduction to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Busia County, Kenya. It defines CSA and its three objectives of sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and income, adapting and building resilience to climate change, and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions. It discusses CSA at the farm and landscape scales and provides examples of CSA practices and projects in Kenya. It also outlines Kenya's response to CSA through policies and programs. The document describes prioritizing CSA options through identifying the local context, available options, relevant outcomes, evaluating evidence on options' impacts, and choosing best-bet options based on the analysis.
1) The document outlines an action plan to scale research outputs from the EC LEDS project in Vietnam. It identifies key activities to update livestock feed databases and software, improve feeding management practices, develop policies around carbon tracking and subsidies, and raise awareness of stakeholders.
2) The plan's main goals are to strengthen national feed resources, update the PC Dairy software, build greenhouse gas inventory systems, and adopt standards to reduce emissions in agriculture and the livestock industry.
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4. USAID support 2016-2018
Towards implementation of mitigation
• Scholarship program for graduate
students to quantify emissions in
food loss and waste
• Livestock MRV
Tier 2
RUMINANT model
• Agroforestry MRV
3. CLIFF-GRADS Fellowships
1. MRV 2. NDC support
Feasibility and investment
assessments
• Vietnam
• Kenya
5. 1 MRV of Livestock emissions
Collaboration with UNIQUE
Forestry, GRA and FAO
• Review of MRV practices: report
and workshop (2017)*
• Compilation of practices, in
progress (to be completed 2018)
• MRV Resource Platform (2018)
• Activity gap filling guidance,
workshop (2018)* and report
(2019)
*USAID
supporrted
6. Why improve MRV of livestock emissions?
• 92 developing countries
included livestock emissions
in their NDCs
• Yet most developing countries
use Tier I approaches that
generally do not capture
mitigation
• Most countries are still
designing MRV for mitigation
of livestock emissions
Source: Wilkes et al. 2017
7. 1.1. Review of country practices (2018)
1. What are current MRV
practices for livestock
emissions?
2. What are the barriers
and opportunities for
improvement?
Reviewed data for 140
developing countries;
conducted interviews with
20+ countries
Wilkes et al. 2017
French and Spanish versions also available
8. Survey results on IPCC criteria for MRV:
Transparency, consistency, comparability,
completeness and accuracy (TCCCA)
• Moderate transparency: Only 99 reported activity data used, 117
reported emissions factors used.
• Completeness– Good for CH4 (139 parties reported enteric
fermentation, 134 manure management CH4); moderate for N20
(115 parties manure and 116 for soil).
• Good comparability- all used IPCC guidelines
• Moderate consistency: 82 used consistent time series, 37 parties
were inconsistent. 21 reported one year only
• Low accuracy - 119 out of 140 developing countries (85%) used
Tier I For Tier 2 users, 16 parties did not update emission factors;
only 5 used updated emission factors
89 parties - no analysis of uncertainty
10. Chile Colombia Ethiopia Indonesia Philippines Vietnam
Human resource allocation to
inventory work
Institutional structures for inventory
related research
Weak links with national data
providers (e.g. statistics agencies)
Lack of data on diverse farm
conditions
Limited capacities for Tier 2 research
Sustainability of finance for inventory
agencies
Finance for activity data collection or
emission research
Practical constraints to inventory improvement
11.
12. 1.2 Activity Data: expert workshop
Hague July 2018
• Shifting to Tier 2 requires regularly updated activity data
that most developing countries do not yet collect
• Demand for guidance for NDC and MRV developers on
practical methods for estimating activity information
13. Country needs for activity data
What?
• Tier 2 and NDCs, but basic Tier 1 data gaps also exist (e.g.
population stocks, age bands)
• Definitions / characterization of systems
• Core variables: population, live weight, weight gain, milk yield,diet,
manure management systems
• Dynamic and relevant to developing country conditions:
- Regularly updated activity data for different production systems
- Reflect reduced emissions (BAU scenarios)
- Seasonality
Guide to be completed by June 2019.
14.
15. • RUMINANT will allow Colombia to use separate emission factors for
different livestock production systems, which emit according to their
productivity and efficiency.
• This allows the inventory to capture mitigation effects, which is necessary
for MRV of Colombia’s livestock NAMA.
• By moving to an advanced inventory methodology, Colombia has achieved
the level of MRV rigor necessary to attract climate finance for its NAMA.
1.3 Use of RUMINANT model to estimate
methane emissions from livestock in
Colombia (1)
Photo: N Palmer, CIAT
16. • The RUMINANT model is a “Tier
3” approach to estimate
methane (CH4) from enteric
fermentation in livestock.
• RUMINANT was validated for
CH4 emissions from livestock in
the tropical lowlands (Cauca
Valley) for seven diets.
• Good correlation observed
between measured (polytunnel)
and RUMINANT CH4 estimates.
Use of RUMINANT model to estimate
methane emissions from livestock in
Colombia (2)
Comparison between measured enteric
methane emissions (solid circles) to those
simulated by RUMINANT model (open circles).
17.
18. 2. MRV of Agroforestry
IPCC guidelines note that trees outside
forests
“should be included when they are a
significant component of total changes
in biomass stocks”(IPCC 1996, 5.13).
• Yet agroforestry is often difficult to detect
due to small land areas, unclear or
overlapping institutional mandates,
multiple land use classifications, and a
lack of dedicated programs to build
capacity or collect data.
.
Review Methods
• Review of UNFCCC documents NCs (N=147), NDCs (N=147)
REDD+ strategies (N=73) and NAMAs (N=264).
• Interviews of key informants in 12 countries.
19. Agroforestry MRV- country needs
Key findings
• 40% of developing countries (59/147)
proposed agroforestry in NDCs.
• Highest interest in Africa (71%),then
Americas (34%), Asia (21%) and
Oceania (7%).
• 71% (105/147) National Communications
mentioned agroforestry or interventions
that could include agroforestry.
• 79% (42/53) countries with REDD+
explicitly included agroforestry in REDD+
efforts
Source: Rosenstock et al. in press
20. Agroforestry MRV- reporting (1)
1. Countries overwhelmingly use Tier 1 approaches to quantify
carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in the LULUCF sector
(84%, 95/113 countries’ NCs)
2. Only 18 countries reported using some Tier 2 approaches.
3. REDD+ countries often use a mix of tiers when estimating forest
carbon baselines
4. Representation of land uses at appropriate resolution is a
precondition for the application of more accurate carbon stock
change estimate
21. 5. Agroforestry that meets forest definitions more likely to be captured
in reporting.
• Relatively few countries provided a quantitative estimate of the
carbon in non-forest trees in the inventory. 16 countries gave a
quantitative estimate of either:
• the number of trees (e.g. 300,000 trees in Nepal to 405,104,918 trees in Niger)
or
• the areal extent of trees outside forests (e.g. 250 ha in Nauru to 2.2 million ha in
Tunisia).
6. Agroforestry in GHG inventory reports, still overall lacking
• elaboration of woody biomass types and
• presentation of subcategories of land-use types and GHG removal
sources in supplementary tables.
Agroforestry MRV- reporting (2)
23. Agroforestry MRV: National case studies
in Vietnam and Colombia
Developed estimates of C benefits of agroforestry and costs for
implementation for Vietnam’s revision of the Nationally Developed
Contribution (final revision scheduled March 2019).
In Colombia, defined a pathway for integrating and monitoring tree-
based systems, with a specific focus on agroforestry, under the
developing Forestry NAMA. With the Colombia Ministry of Environment
(MADS) and IDEAM (the institute responsible for GHG MRV).
Made technical recommendations for trees on farms definitions and
technical input for the construction and definition of categories
Piloted use of cost-effective way to identify lands including agroforestry
using ‘Collect Earth’ (cheap, crowd sourced, Google Earth Engine) in
both Vietnam and Colombia. Results were positive, but challenges
remain.
24.
25. 3. Support for Countries’ NDCs
Feasibility of rice LED options and investment
plan for AWD in Vietnam
Comprehensive, comparative analysis of potentially viable LED practices and
their supporting interventions within the rice supply chain
Geographic suitability Barriers
Incentives, enabling
conditions
Costs, benefits and risk
analysis
1. Domestic investment plan for
AWD and mid-season drainage
2. Outline for international
investment proposal for AWD
Policy gap analysis
Identification of policy
levers to incentivize
adoption
Quantification of
investment needed
Identification of international funding sources
Investment plan for AWD
Prioritize
interventions,
identify
instruments to
encourage large-
scale adoption
Slides courtesy of Tran Van The
26. 3.1. Policy gap analysis
o In policy development & implementation: Ambitious targets and limited
financial resources (domestic, international support, private); especially for
infrastructure, irrigations system;
o Linkages and collaboration: Poor linkages in policies (inter-regional
linkages, multidisciplinary; project to project);
o Capacity building: Limited knowledge, readiness from local and private
stakeholders in GHG reduction (LEDs);
o Economic benefits vs social, environment and politic benefits: Low
benefits and low or no support for private sector rice production
o Performance and scaling: Good performance/test but lack esources for
replication
o Land tenure and large farm model: Slow moving land use policy for rice for
investment
3. Results
Slides courtesy of Tran Van The
27. 3.2. Policy levers for AWD in rice production
3. Results
GHG mitigation
on rice
production
GHG
mitigation
project
(3119/BNN-
KHCN, 2011)
National
green
growth
strategy and
action plan (
1393/QD-
TTg, 2014)
Action plan to
response to
climate
change in
agriculture
(819/QĐ-BNN-
KHCN, 2016)
INDC
(2015)
Plan to
implement
NDC in
agriculture
(7028/BNN-
KHCN, 2016)
Restruc-
tured rice
project
(1898/QD-
BNN, 2016)
AWD YY N N YYY Y YY
SRI YY N N YYY Y YY
ICM YY Y Y YYY Y Y
MSD N N N YYY N -
Compost YY Y Y YYY Y -
Reduced
nitrogen by SA
YY N N YYY Y Y
Biochar Y N N YYY Y -
Slides courtesy of Tran Van The
28. 2.3. CBA on AWD in MRD
3. Results
-
5,000.00
10,000.00
15,000.00
20,000.00
An Giang Kien Giang Soc Trang Average
Costs (1000 VND/ha/season)
AWD None
-
10,000.00
20,000.00
30,000.00
An Giang Kien Giang Soc Trang Average
Net benefit (1000 VND/ha/season)
AWD None
30,000.00
35,000.00
40,000.00
45,000.00
An Giang Kien Giang Soc Trang Average
Revenue (1000 VND/ha/season)
AWD None
29.
30. 4. Support for Countries’ NDCs
Feasibility of livestock LED options and investment
plan in Kenya and Ethiopia
(Ericksen, using Dickhoefer et al., 2014)
31. Improving feed quality to reduce
emissions intensities:
Improvements in feed quality to increase productivity
• Supplemental fodder from improved forage species –
Mixed crop-livestock. (26-28% reductions in emission
intensities for lactating cattle Opio et al 2016)
• Supplemental feeding with concentrates –dairy (20-
27% reductions in dairy, Opio et al.)
• Managed grazing – extensive pastoral (similar to
improved feed quality?)
• Analyzed profits to be made at farm level, based upon data
collected from field visits with farmers in five counties.
• Evaluated requirements for investment in a project to support
yield positive returns over a five-year time span
Source: Polly Ericksen, ILRI and
John Kashangaki, SBA Africa Ltd 2018
32. Summary of findings: change in milk
yield and monthly profit margin
County Milk production per cow
(kg/litres) with fodder
Change in
daily milk
yield
Profit margins with
fodder intervention
(KES)
Change in
monthly profit
margins
Worst case Best case Worst case Best case
Murang’a
7 20 186% 16,158 33,558 108%
Nyeri
6 15 150% 16,383 23,883 46%
Uasin Gishu
6 15 150% 9,043 22,223 146%
Kiambu
12 22 83% 53,267 63,800 20%
Nyandarua
5 13 160% 7,625 23,158 204%
Average
7.2 17 146% 20,495 3,325 105%
Source: Polly Ericksen, ILRI and
John Kashangaki, SBA Africa Ltd 2018
34. Fodder production can generate
greater revenue and reduce emissions
• Both milk yields and profit margins improve
• GHG emissions intensities can reduce
• 8 to 24% (FAO and NZAGGRC) or up to 0.46
metric tons CO2 equivalent with conservative
adoption rates.
• Brandt et al suggests reductions up to 26-
31%, if combine forages with concentrates
Source: Polly Ericksen, ILRI and
John Kashangaki, SBA Africa Ltd 2018
35.
36. Call for Food Loss and Waste Proposals
https://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/career/attachments/CLIFF-
GRADS%20call%20for%20applications%20FLW%202018-2019%20final_0.pdf
37. Conclusions: Where are countries in
preparedness for mitigation? (1)
MRV
1. MRV systems for livestock and agroforestry are moderate to
weak, but seem to be heading in the right direction
Livestock emissions accuracy is a concern, but many moving to Tier 2. Sensitivity
to pasture feeds’ mitigation impact is possible with Tier 3. N2O needs attention.
Agroforestry- increasingly visible, especially on forest lands; trees on farms are
gap. Address resolution of scale as precondition for activity and emission factor
data. Guidance needed??
Some countries are ahead, so learning can be accelerated with exchange. Need
multi-country leadership
2. Biggest need is access to activity data: linkages among statistical
systems is essential; remote sensing; crowdsourcing; include
supply chains.
3. UNFCCC reporting drives institutional incentives for action, and
institutional actors are clear. Strong impact pathway.
4. Need for multiple country leadership
38. Conclusions: Where are countries in
preparedness for mitigation? (2)
Feasibility and investment planning
1. Strong evidence for profitability and incentives for both AWD in
rice and improved livestock fodder; although returns relative to
other sectors not analysed.
2. But business and investment cases are messy, based on
limited data and understanding, no consistent method
3. Feasibility and investment were highly focused spatially in
intensive production areas, suggesting these might also be
focal areas for MRV and investment case development.
4. Impact pathway is less clear given need for multiple actors and
ministries; complex and competitive climate finance
environment, gap between research and implementation.
How to strengthen this?
40. Interventions to reduce emissions
intensities
• Manure management
• Biodigesters for methane capture – (zero
grazing) dairy
• Manure storage in covered heaps – mixed
crop-livestock
41. Interventions to reduce emissions
intensities
• Improved animal husbandry
• Reduce chronic disease burden of intestinal
parasites – all systems
• Reduce age at slaughter – pastoral systems
42. Cross Cutting Themes
• Degree of market orientation is major precondition
for upgrading
• Even with market orientation, low milk prices
inhibit investment in upgrading
• Small land size as major limitation
• Low trust and accountability of input services
43. Improved Forages
• Barriers
Low availability of land (B) – paddocks?
Diversified cropping strategies (M, I?)
Low accessibility of improved planting material (M)
• Potential incentives?
Field trials to improve farmer awareness
Investments to stimulate fodder seed
Financial evaluation of specialization vs diversification
• NB: AI and dairy meal become more attractive
when basal diet improves
44. Biodigestors
• Barriers
High upfront cost (M)
Maintenance requirements (I)
Slurry transport (B)
• Incentives
Household energy source (direct benefit)
Improved household health (direct benefit)
Farmer innovation on slurry transport
?
45. Managed Grazing in Rangelands
• Barriers
Require high institutional governance capacity (O)
Expansive landscape commitment (O,B)
Long time horizon to see substantial carbon
sequestration effects (B)
• Incentives
Improve market access to drive intensification
Couple with improved herd management and health
46. Interventions to reduce emissions
intensities
• Improvements in Feed Quality to increase
productivity
• Supplemental fodder from improved forage
species – Mixed crop-livestock
• Supplemental feeding with concentrates –
dairy
• Managed grazing – extensive pastoral
47. Interventions to reduce emissions
intensities
• Manure management
• Biodigesters for methane capture – (zero
grazing) dairy
• Manure storage in covered heaps – mixed
crop-livestock
48. Interventions to reduce emissions
intensities
• Improved animal husbandry
• Reduce chronic disease burden of intestinal
parasites – all systems
• Reduce age at slaughter – pastoral systems
49. Domestic
investment
plan for
AWD
Policy gap analysis
Quantification of
investment needed
Consultation with finance experts;
Identification of international funding
sources
Feasibility analysis on AWD (separated study):
• Geographic suitability
• Barriers to adoption
• Identify incentives and enabling conditions to
encourage large-scale adoption
Identification of
policy levers to
incentivize adoption
Analysis of costs,
benefits and risks
2. Methodology
50. 2. Methodology
Province AWD Convention
An Giang 40 20
Kien Giang 40 20
Soc Trang 40 20
Total 120 60
Costs and
benefits
determination
Field data
collection
CBA application Cost efficiency
calculation
MAC
Estuimated
abatement rate of
GHG (tCO2eha-1)
Potential scale
analysis (ha)
Estumated
abatement
optential
of GHG
(M. tCO2e)
Reculate
cost
effectives
(CE) and
abatement
potential
Sensitive
analysis
and
scenario
(low,
medium
and high)
Sample taken from field survey
MAC applied to determine cost of GHG reduction on rice
RRA and PRA for
data collection
SWOT, bottleneck
analysis
Slides courtesy of Tran Van The
51. 6
4
Argentina
• 8 agro-ecological and climatic regions
• Breeding and fattening systems identified/region
• Production systems modeled (activity, diet, reproduction and production)
• Aggregate results cross-checked against regional, census and agricultural
production data.
Bolivia
• 3 climatic regions (altiplano, valles and tropics)
• Cattle and sheep sub-classes (e.g. dairy cattle, non-dairy cattle, young
cattle and oxen) using expert opinion in region.
• Data on feed rations, apparent digestibility of forage and feed and other
production data (e.g. milk yields, live weights)/region obtained from
publications or government agencies.
Diverse structures for Tier 2 classification
52. RECOMMENDATIONS
6
5
1. Consider updated Tier 2 approaches using activity and
livestock production data that reflect changing livestock
systems and their productivity
2. Improve synergies among statistical systems, other livestock
data systems and MRV
3. Share country experiences on priorities for livestock MRV
system development
4. Develop methods for addressing gaps in activity data
Editor's Notes
Accuracy: No systematic over- or under-estimatation, uncertainties are reduced as far as practicable
Transparency: Assumptions and methodologies clearly explained
Major challenges:
clarifying and refining land-use definitions to include agroforestry;
defining institutional mandates as they relate to agroforestry;
lack of access to high-resolution satellite imagery, strengthening technical capacities and resources for data collection
improving transparency in reporting
Recommendations:
Develop accessible approaches for representation of lands with agroforestry
Create guidelines for agroforestry reporting to improve transparency
Develop carbon stock change and emission factor data and databases relevant for reporting requirements
Assess the institutional arrangements needed to include agroforestry in MRV
Research and practical guidelines on linking national and project-level MRV
Create mechanisms that increase the likelihood of continued funding for continuity o
Representation of agroforestry on multiple land uses is one of the limitations found in the assessment and we test a new cheap and crowd sourced way to look at identify agroforestry systems with Google Earth Engine. Results were positive but also suggest a few challenges. We identify a few key steps to refine including use of local knowledge in designing rules for identify systems. The Government of Colombia has shown significant interest in this approach, when briefed on it and ICRAF hopes to present it in detail to them in Quarter 4 of 2018.
CCAFS is now collaborating with a number of countries, including Vietnam, Colombia and Kenya to implement their NDCs. Vietnam for example, according to their NDC plans to implement alternate wetting and drying or mid season drainage in 1.7 mil ha
We are supporting comparative analysis of options for reducing emissions and the development of an investment plan to provide the basis both for policy change and investment in scale-out (at the national level) and submission of proposals for climate finance.
In Kenya we supported similar work. In Columbia we have supported modeling emissions usingthe RUMINANT model and the development of better emission factors. Important lessons are being learned from these experiences that we hope can inform NDCs and pave the way for other countries to also be successful.
Investment plan for AWD should be implemented for 900 thousand hectares, contribute in 10.97 million tCO2e, produced added net benefit of 8,540 billion VND (371.36 million US$/yr.) as compared to conventional rice cultivation in 2030.
Dairy is the fastest growing sub-sector of Kenyan agriculture 4% of Kenya GDP; about five billion kg of milk annually
Ten low emissions development (LED) interventions for the livestock sectors in Kenya and Ethiopia were reviewed
(Ericksen and Crane 2018). From these, one intervention was selected for further analysis—
improving availability of quality feeds for the smallholder dairy subsector, specifically by improving forages. The
rationale for this is that access to adequate feed availability and quality are a prerequisite to any other productivity
improvements such as improved breeds. The intervention is most suited to intensive and semi-intensive dairy because
it requires collection and, ideally, storage of fodder to feed to animals that reside on farms, with limited grazing.
Currently, intensive and semi-intensive dairy production produce about 65% of the total emissions from dairy
production. Improved fodder, especially if combined with legumes or dairy concentrates, could reduce emissions
intensities per animal or litre of milk by up to 30%.
Stimulating more livestock producers to invest in improved fodder production will require external investments,
as the current rates of adoption are very low. Here we outline a clear articulation and rationale for investment in
improved forage production and use by smallholder dairy producers, as well as a feasibility assessment of such an
investment. We look at two levels of investment—by farmers themselves and for project implementation.
We present a business case as follows. First, we present the overall economic context of Kenyan smallholder dairy
production. Second, we detail an analysis of the possible profits to be made at farm level, based upon data collected
from field visits with farmers in five counties. Third we evaluate what would be required to make an investment in
a project to support yield positive returns over a five-year time span. Last, we review the role of other value chain
actors and the support they might provide.
The farm level modelling suggests that there are considerable improvements in productivity and profitability to be
made across the five counties if farmers were to invest in on-farm fodder production. In three of the counties this is
true even in the low price and production scenario. At the level of a project across three of the counties, the results
show that after the second year, the project’s benefit would be greater than the annual investment cost assuming
minimal risk. We caution that a lot of extension support on fodder production, together with support to develop
fodder markets, would also be needed. Currently, neither cooperatives nor the large processors are providing as
much support as they could in this area.
It is estimated that the project will break even by the second year after initiation
The dairy production system, fodder variety and optimal herd size for different sized parcels under fodder
farming is determined.
3. Data on farm operations from three counties is presented.
4. The feasibility analysis of fodder management is conducted for three counties where a project might be
implemented.
5. The fodder project investment cost–benefit analysis at macro level is presented.
6. Overall, the public investment cost of implementing a program targeting up to 30,000 smallholder households
over a five-year period is estimated.
Key informant interviews were conducted with purposively selected farmers from Kenya’s central region (Murang’a,
Kiambu, Nyandarua and Nyeri counties) and Rift Valley region (Uasin Gishu and Nakuru counties). The information
is used to present basic cost–benefit analysis for one representative household from each of the five counties. The
households own varying parcels of land and numbers of dairy cattle, sell varied quantities of milk and consume
part of their production. All households are assumed to face varying market prices. Each household can produce
varying quantities of milk, a portion of which is sold through dairy cooperatives or producer associations. Note that
in many counties expanding fodder farming will reduce area available for food crops. For each county, three cases
are presented. A base case (Case A) where the household derives income from current on-farm operations as is;
a second case (Case B) where the household cultivates fodder, facing an opportunity cost of land; and a third case
(Case C) where the household cultivates another crop instead of fodder. The cases are derived from the reality of the
farmers interviewed in each county. For each case, two scenarios are evaluated—a best case with higher milk outputs
and prices, then the worst case, in order to see how sensitive the farm revenues are to changes in output and price.
We note that output–price fluctuations are the greatest risk smallholder farmers face. These prices can fluctuate by
up to 30%, and so many farmers choose to diversify their farming activities. Since there are five counties, the total
number of cases analysed is 15, each with two scenarios. The cases are presented in the following order: Murang’a
county, Kiambu county, Nyandarua county, Nyeri county and Uasin Gishu county.
The public investment cost of implementing a programme targeting up to 30,000 smallholder households over a fiveyear
period is estimated at USD3.3 million (this excludes the individual farmer investment in improved feeding inputs).
This investment can be justified as it is estimated that within a three-year period it would be paid back through higher
productivity and income for the targeted beneficiaries.
Joint initiative of CCAFS and the GRA
~USD 10,000 fellowships
For early-career scientists and graduate students from developing countries
To conduct applied research on climate change mitigation in agriculture and quantification of agricultural greenhouse gases
Generates novel climate change research on smallholder farming systems and facilitates South-South knowledge exchange
At least half of all fellowships to women
Collaboration with GRA initiated in 2017, building on CCAFS CLIFF network
Support provided by CGIAR Trust Fund and bilateral
donors, including New Zealand and USAID
And of course, this only indicates the agenda. The real work is in implementation.
CCAFS is now collaborating with a number of countries, including Vietnam, Colombia and Kenya to implement their NDCs. Vietnam for example, according to their NDC plans to implement alternate wetting and drying or mid season drainage in 1.7 mil ha
We are supporting comparative analysis of options for reducing emissions and the development of an investment plan to provide the basis both for policy change and investment in scale-out (at the national level) and submission of proposals for climate finance.
In Kenya we are doing similar work. In Columbia we have supported modeling future emissions and the development of better emission factors. Important lessons are being learned from these experiences that we hope can inform the NDC partnership and pave the way for other countries to also be successful.
Text Box 12: Different ways used by selected countries to structure application of the IPCC Tier 2 equations
Argentina:56 The country was divided into 8 regions, based on agro-ecological and climatic factors. In each region, a number of breeding and fattening systems was identified. Data to characterize production systems in terms of activity, diet, reproduction and production in each system were then procured from literature, and entered into a model structured around regions and production systems. The resulting preliminary model was then refined using other data sources, and the aggregate results cross-checked against regional, census and agricultural production data.
Bolivia:57 Cattle populations in three climatic regions (altiplano, valles and tropics) were identified according to the agro-ecological zonation of different departments (sub-regions) in the country. For cattle and sheep, the population was stratified into sub-classes (e.g. dairy cattle, non-dairy cattle, young cattle and oxen) based on consultations with livestock production experts in each region. In each region, data on feed rations and apparent digestibility of forage and feed was obtained from publications, and other production data (e.g. milk yields, live weights) were obtained from publications or government agencies.
Georgia:58 Common cattle breeds in Georgia include late maturing breeds (the Georgian Mountain and Red Mingrelian) characterized by low weight, low productivity and high milk fat content, as well as several high-productive early maturing breeds that were imported in the previous century. The IPCC equations were populated separately for early and late maturing breeds at different life stages using published data and expert opinion. Expert opinion was used to estimate the proportion of each breed in the total cattle population.
Mongolia:59 Although Mongolia has diverse indigenous breeds of livestock, a small number of breeds dominate the total population of each livestock type. Published breed characterization studies were referred to, and used along with expert judgement of livestock experts and IPCC default factors to develop a single Tier 2 emission factor for each type of livestock in the country. Results were compared with Tier 2 factors from China.
A summary of the recommendations, including points made during discussion, are as follows:
Expand support for analysis, identification and implementation of livestock mitigation options
Include economic analysis
Identify innovations for mitigation technologies, including those related to energy efficiency
Ensure mitigation is farmer-focused
Support inter-ministerial discussion
Countries seeking to measure emission reductions through the national GHG inventory should consider adopting a Tier 2 approach that uses regularly updated activity and livestock production data to reflect actual, changing livestock systems and their productivity at appropriate scales.
Conduct an international review of Tier II approaches and implied emission factors to identify gaps in information
Produce a standard format for MRV, which countries can elect to use or not.
Improve accuracy, transparency and sustainability of MRV.
Consider reporting emissions intensities in addition to emissions.
Strengthen synergies between improvements in statistical systems or other livestock data systems and improvements in MRV
Identify key data needs
Map out data sources & needs for MRV, and identify, develop and strengthen institutional links to NDCS, NAMAS other higher profile objectives like SDGs
Identify key stakeholders
Allows communication & bottom up approach
Instil a willingness to share data based on common goals and mutual benefits
Increase synergies among private-public-academic actors.
Consider building an inter-ministerial agenda for climate
Government mandate
Public interest
Support research collaboration
Support sharing of experience among countries on prioritized aspects of livestock MRV system development
Produce a resource based on country case studies, good practices and innovations to demonstrate what “good enough” MRV can be.
Examples of collecting Activity Data, specific parameters, how to deal with data gaps, use of different approaches, tools and innovations
Demonstrate approaches and decision trees to meeting minimum requirements for MRV, based on transparency in reporting of uncertainties, sensitivity testing and developing pathways for further improvements.
Provide opportunities for face-to-face networking, including regional meetings.
Promote innovation at different level of mitigation action and MRV
Explore compatibility of MRV between levels (project, jurisdictional, sectoral, national) and effective institutional arrangements
Focus on MRV that supports mitigation actions
Provide a decision tree and examples of best practices for developing baselines, sources of information (including use of mixed sources) and dealing with limited data availability
Embed MRV in knowledge management that supports farmers’ information
Session 9: The final session provided the participants with further information on the proposed timeline for the draft white paper. The White Paper will be presented as a draft at the GRA Livestock Research Group Meeting in Washington April 2017 and finalized in time for SBSTA in Bonn May 2017. A short executive summary document of the White Paper will be produced as well as infographics, blogs such as AgChats and possibly a podcast. The suggestion was made to map the paper’s recommendations to the UNFCCC guidelines to aid reporting. The White Paper will be shared on the sponsoring organizations’ websites under a creative communication license. Participants said that it would be useful to have the final White Paper translated into Spanish and French. A resource guide to minimal standards based on examples of good practices will also be explored.
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