10 May 2021. Regenerative Agriculture vs. Agroecology: nomenclature hype or principle divergence? (a) A decade of CSA: what are the achievements, the challenges and the bottlenecks? (b) What practical implications for smallholder farmers, agriculture and the environment? Presentation by Bruce Campbell - Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

1. Innovation in Agronomy –
A Regional Dialogue on
Regenerative Agriculture,
Agroecology and Climate Smart
Agriculture
10th May 2021
Climate-smart
agriculture
Bruce Campbell
Program Director

2. What is CSA?
3 pillars of CSA

3. What is climate-smart agriculture (CSA)?

4. What’s in a
name?
What context specific ac3vi3es need to
happen in specific loca3ons?

5. Ø Need to reach/empower/build the resilience
of 500 million smallholders by 2030
Ø 9 cropping seasons in some countries
One Gigatonne emission reduc3on target (2030)

6. CSA - Challenges and bottlenecks
Finance
Value chains for small-scale producers
Policy, institutional and regulatory barriers
Climate-informed advisories

7. Salinity intrusion forecas5ng system (Vietnam’s Mekong Delta)
• Applied to 800,000 ha - half a million rice growers
• Changes planDng dates
• Helping farmers to increase annual rice incomes by 24%
BUT ALSO:
• Alternate weOng and drying in rice
• Significant GHG reducDons

8. Climate-informed advisories
• 7 million farmers in Senegal (500k digital)
• 100,000+ farmers in Rwanda
• 300,000 farmers in Ghana (digital)
• 13 million farmers in Ethiopia (radio)
Increased uptake of technologies
Income increases of c. 20%
In Rwanda – gender gap

9. Kenya: con5nuous
policy
engagement over
many years
• USD 250 M new investments
• c. 1.2 million farmers
• Increased
• livestock holdings
• agricultural yield
• household welfare

10. Africa Improved Foods
Massive private sector investments
Value chains directed at smallholders
Rwanda, to expand to at least 5 countries
Public sector to help de-risking & leveraging
Value chains: resilience and carbon-friendly

11. Engagement
Outreach
CSA Investment
PorUolios
PrioriDzing IntervenDons
PracDces, Programs and Policies
Value for Money & Trade-offs
Stocktaking for
CSA AcDon
Climate Risks & Characterization
Targets, Vulnerability & Impacts, Readiness
Taking CSA to
Scale
Program ImplementaDon
Design, Development & Deployment
Knowledge into AcDon
Learning from
Experience
Monitoring and EvaluaDon
Across Scales and Systems
Evidence Based Results Framework

12. Situa3on Analysis:
CSA Profiling
• CSA Country Profiles
developed for 30+
countries globally
• 31 Kenyan County
Climate Risk Profiles
• 1500+ Experts consulted
• Suppor3ng
implementa3on of
US$ 250 Million Kenya
CSA Project
haps://ccafs.cgiar.org/publica3ons/csa-country-profiles
haps://ccafs.cgiar.org/publica3ons/kenya-county-climate-risk-profiles

13. CSA resources
• Country profiles: Participatory process with country experts – to
identify context specific opportunities, value chains, practices
• Investment planning - https://ccafs.cgiar.org/invest
• Sustainable finance - https://ccafs.cgiar.org/research/scaling-climate-smart-
agriculture/sustainable-finance
• CSA guide - https://csa.guide/
haps://ccafs.cgiar.org/resources/publica3ons/csa-country-profiles

14. Ø Major challenges
Ø Lets not argue over words.
Ø What needs to happen in par3cular places?
Ø For achieving change:
• Policies and ins3tu3ons
• Private sector and value chains
• Finance
• Climate-informed advisories

15. Thank you
www.ccafs.cgiar.org
Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT)
@bcampbell_CGIAR