Presentation by Robert Zougmore, CCAFS Regional Program Leader, West Africa, at the at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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.
How to achieve climate-smart agriculture and the potential triple-win that can be achieved from these practices such as adaptation, mitigation and increasing livelihoods.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
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.
How to achieve climate-smart agriculture and the potential triple-win that can be achieved from these practices such as adaptation, mitigation and increasing livelihoods.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
Climate Smart Agriculture Project: using policy and economic analysis as a ba...FAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared as background to the FAO TCI Investment Days 2013 held at IFAD on 17-18 December. The presentation provides an overview of the theory of change of the FAO-EC Climate-Smart Agriculture project and highlights the contribution of the project in providing sound evidence for investment proposals.
At the Africa Agriculture Science Week AASW 15-20 July, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Head of Research Sonja Vermeulen gave a presentation on Climate-Smart Agriculture for an African context.
Keynote presentation by Dr Reiner Wassmann, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at CCAFS webinar 'Exploring GHG mitigation potential in rice production' on 18 September 2014.
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to provide a general overview of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and the EPIC programme. After providing a definition of CSA, the presentation focuses on Sustainable Land Management and the role of climate finance to support CSA. It concludes with a description of the FAO-EC project on CSA.
Agriculture has been and continues to be the most important sector in Indian economy. Climate change is one of the most important environmental issues facing the world today. The impact of climate change is a reality and it cuts across all climates sensitive sectors including the Agriculture sector. In this situation this seminar focuses on the climate smart agriculture. CSA brings together practices, policies and institutions that are not necessarily new but are used in the context of climatic changes which is prime requirement in arena of climate change. Farmers possessed low level of knowledge regarding climate change, and they adopted traditional methods to mitigate the impact of climate change. Small land holdings, poor extension services and non availability of stress tolerant verities were the major problems faced by the farmers in adoption to climate change. Extension functionaries were having medium level awareness about impact of climate change on agriculture. They used electronic media, training and conferences and seminars as major sources of information for climate change. They need training on climate smart agriculture aspects. Based on the above facts this presentation focuses on analyzing the opportunities and challenges of climate smart agriculture.
Conservation agriculture for resource use efficiency and sustainability BASIX
The Green Revolution era focused on enhancing the production and productivity of crops. New challenges demand that the issues of efficient resource use and resource conservation receive high priority to ensure that past gains can be sustained and further enhanced to meet the emerging needs. Extending some of the resource-conserving interventions developed for the agricultural crops are the major challenges for researchers and farmers alike. The present paper shares recent research experiences on resource conservation technologies involving tillage and crop establishment options and associated agronomic practices which enable farmers in reducing production costs, increase profitability and help them move forward in the direction of adopting conservation agriculture.
This is a presentation for CCAFS East Africa by Philip Kimeli at the Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in Africa 2016 "Fostering African Resilience and Capacity to Adapt" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 21st-23rd February 2016
Rising to the challenge of establishing a climate smart agriculture - a global context presented as keynote in the Workshop on Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies in Asia workshop, organised by CCAFS, UNEP and IRRI.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
Climate Smart Agriculture Project: using policy and economic analysis as a ba...FAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared as background to the FAO TCI Investment Days 2013 held at IFAD on 17-18 December. The presentation provides an overview of the theory of change of the FAO-EC Climate-Smart Agriculture project and highlights the contribution of the project in providing sound evidence for investment proposals.
At the Africa Agriculture Science Week AASW 15-20 July, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Head of Research Sonja Vermeulen gave a presentation on Climate-Smart Agriculture for an African context.
Keynote presentation by Dr Reiner Wassmann, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at CCAFS webinar 'Exploring GHG mitigation potential in rice production' on 18 September 2014.
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to provide a general overview of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and the EPIC programme. After providing a definition of CSA, the presentation focuses on Sustainable Land Management and the role of climate finance to support CSA. It concludes with a description of the FAO-EC project on CSA.
Agriculture has been and continues to be the most important sector in Indian economy. Climate change is one of the most important environmental issues facing the world today. The impact of climate change is a reality and it cuts across all climates sensitive sectors including the Agriculture sector. In this situation this seminar focuses on the climate smart agriculture. CSA brings together practices, policies and institutions that are not necessarily new but are used in the context of climatic changes which is prime requirement in arena of climate change. Farmers possessed low level of knowledge regarding climate change, and they adopted traditional methods to mitigate the impact of climate change. Small land holdings, poor extension services and non availability of stress tolerant verities were the major problems faced by the farmers in adoption to climate change. Extension functionaries were having medium level awareness about impact of climate change on agriculture. They used electronic media, training and conferences and seminars as major sources of information for climate change. They need training on climate smart agriculture aspects. Based on the above facts this presentation focuses on analyzing the opportunities and challenges of climate smart agriculture.
Conservation agriculture for resource use efficiency and sustainability BASIX
The Green Revolution era focused on enhancing the production and productivity of crops. New challenges demand that the issues of efficient resource use and resource conservation receive high priority to ensure that past gains can be sustained and further enhanced to meet the emerging needs. Extending some of the resource-conserving interventions developed for the agricultural crops are the major challenges for researchers and farmers alike. The present paper shares recent research experiences on resource conservation technologies involving tillage and crop establishment options and associated agronomic practices which enable farmers in reducing production costs, increase profitability and help them move forward in the direction of adopting conservation agriculture.
This is a presentation for CCAFS East Africa by Philip Kimeli at the Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in Africa 2016 "Fostering African Resilience and Capacity to Adapt" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 21st-23rd February 2016
Rising to the challenge of establishing a climate smart agriculture - a global context presented as keynote in the Workshop on Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies in Asia workshop, organised by CCAFS, UNEP and IRRI.
What will it take to establish a climate smart agricultural world? Presentation on the problems, solutions and key challenges in Climate Smart Agriculture. Presentation made in the Wayamba Conference in Sri Lanka, August 2014.
Presentation on success stories and challenges ahead to make global agriculture more climate smart. Brownbag presentation in the WorldBank on 15th May by Andy Jarvis from the CCAFS program of the CGIAR.
Rosegrant, Mark. 2023. Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation. PowerPoint presentation given during university-wide seminar. Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, March 30, 2023.
All of the presentations from the webinar on "Enhancing investment in soil health and carbon storage: Frontiers for linking finance and carbon accounting" held on 10 September 2020.
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-Tim Mealey, Meridian Institute
-Deborah Bossio, The Nature Conservancy
-Martien van Nieuwkoop, World Bank Group
-Keith Paustian, Colorado State University
-Stefan Jirka, Manager LandScale, Verra
-Dan Harburg, Director, Indigo
-William Salas, President of Dagan, Inc
-Aldyen Donnelly, Director of Carbon Economics, Nori
-Debbie Reed, Executive Director of Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC)
-Beverley Henry, Institute for Future Environments-QUT
-Pamela M. Bachman, Digital Agriculture & Sustainability Lead, The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer
-Ronald Vargas, Global Soil Carbon Partnership - FAO
-Paul Luu, 4per1000
Low emissions development opportunities in food systemsCIFOR-ICRAF
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Addressing Gender in Climate Change Adaptation Planning for Agriculture SectorsUNDP Climate
- Uganda and Zambia are carrying out activities to better assess adaptation options through cost-benefit analysis and impact evaluation exercises, as part of the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) Programme led by FAO and UNDP.
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Climate smart agriculture and its benefits for ecosystems and food security 2...Alain Vidal
Conference given at University Paris-Saclay / AgroParisTech on 17 November 2020 as part of Master CLUES (Sequence "Everyone Eating Well within Environmental Limits")
Main GHGs from agricultural lands are CH4 and N2O
GHG emission can be reduced by 60 % in 2050 through:
Removal of rice straws and through good management practices in paddy fields
Use alternatives to chemical fertilizer
CH4 reduction from livestock by improving feed quality and animal comfort
Reduce N2O emission in soils
Enhance C sequestration in paddy and rainfed uplands through ‘Evergreen Agro-ecosystem’ concept
Carbon stock in agricultural lands can be enhanced by improving land management practices
C sequestration in tea lands can be increased through: Agro-ecosystem approach; Crop diversification; Intercropping; Introduction of shade trees with optimum density; and Rehabilitation of old tea lands
C stock can be increased by 267 % by the year 2050 through Home Garden Intensification
If the proposed mitigation actions are implemented, the country will be able to achieve Net Zero by 2038.
Sustainable Agriculture as Solution to Global Challengessekem
Presentation by Helmy Abouleish, CEO, SEKEM Group
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Mitigate+: Research for low-emission food systemsCIFOR-ICRAF
Presented by Christopher Martius, CIFOR-ICRAF, at "Leveraging the Glasgow Leader’s Declaration on Forests and Land Use to accelerate climate actions - Bonn Climate Change Conference", on 14 Jun 2022
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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.
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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
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assess and monitor:
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Presented by Harsh Rajpal, Code Partners Pte. Ltd., on 30 June 2021 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Webinar on Sustainable Protein Case Study: Outputs and Synthesis of Results.
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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.
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Bringing Climate Smart Agriculture to Scale: Some successes and their success factors
1. Institutions and policies for scaling-out climate smart agriculture, Hotel Hilton, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2-3 December 2013
Bringing climate-smart
agriculture to scale:
Examples and factors of success
Robert Zougmoré, RPL-CCAFS West Africa
Sonja Vermeulen, Head of Research, CCAFS
2013
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2. Food
security
GHG CO2-eq tonne per
capita
25
20
15
10
5
0
US
Adaptation
Malawi
Environmental
footprint
What is “climate-smart agriculture”?
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3. Guidance on CSA principles
and practices
FAO (2010). CSA is ‘agriculture that
sustainably increases productivity,
resilience (adaptation),
reduces/removes GHGs (mitigation),
and enhances achievement of
national food security and
development goals.’
http://www.climatesmartagriculture.org
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6. Bringing back the Sahel’s
‘underground forest’
o 1980’s loss of trees led to severe soil
infertility, crop failure, famine.
o Land restored through farmer-managed
natural regeneration (FMNR).
o FMNR encourages farmers to regrow
indigenous trees.
7. Success at scale
o 5 million ha of land restored, over 200
million trees re-established.
o FMNR spreading across southern Niger,
Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal.
8. Benefits for food production,
adaptation and mitigation
o Food production:
additional half a million tonnes of grain per year.
improved food security of 2.5 million people.
yields of millet from 150 kg/ha to 500 kg/ha.
o Adaptation :
improved structure and fertility of the soil.
water more accessible.
o Mitigation:
sequestration of carbon in soil, tree roots and wood
.
9. Herbicide-tolerant crops
contribute to climate change
resilience and mitigation
o Herbicide-tolerant (HT) and pest-resistant crops
reduce need for ploughing, fuel consumption,
and pesticides.
o Improves soil quality.
10. Success at scale
o Reduced fuel consumption.
o Reduced use of pesticides.
o Higher yields, lower costs, greater returns for
farmers.
o HT canola – grown under reduced tillage in Canada.
Reducing fuel use by 31,000 tonnes per year, and
sequestering 1 million tonnes of carbon in soil.
11. Benefits for food production,
adaptation and mitigation
o Food production:
higher yields.
o Adaptation:
increasing resilience of farming systems.
reducing vulnerability to wind and water erosion.
o Mitigation:
reduced fuel and pesticide usage.
build up of organic matter in soil leading to
carbon being sequestered.
12. Weather-based insurance helps
farmers evade the poverty trap
o Smallholder farmers trapped in poverty – no
resources to invest in inputs to generate surplus.
o 2003 Weather-Based Crop Insurance Scheme
(WBCIS) – uses a weather index, pay-outs
triggered automatically.
13. Success at scale
o 12 million farmers insured.
o More small-scale farmers taking out insurance.
o Reduces the risks farmers take in investing in
inputs.
14. Benefits for food production,
adaptation, mitigation
o Food production:
– allows farmers to access fertilizer and better
seed.
– raising productivity of cropland.
o Adaptation:
– allows farmers to take risks with new farming
methods.
o Mitigation:
– reduces pressure to bring more land under
cultivation.
15. Paying for ecosystem services is good
for the environment and people
o By 2009, 38% of China’s total land area
considered badly eroded.
o 2 billion tonnes of silt entering the Yangtze and
Yellow rivers each year.
o ‘Grain for Green’ programme designed to
reduce erosion in river catchments and
alleviate poverty.
o Farmers paid to set aside land and plant trees.
16. Success at scale
o 2.5 million households participated.
o Converted 2 million ha of cropped hillside
to forest or grassland.
o Sequestered over 700,000 tonnes of
carbon.
o Soil erosion reduced by 26%.
17. Benefits for food production,
adaptation and mitigation
o Food production:
farmers able to increase yields on
remaining fields.
o Adaptation:
adapting cropped hillside to forest –
reducing erosion.
o Mitigation:
carbon production and soil erosion
decreased.
18. Water harvesting boosts
yields in the Sahel
o Sahel – Droughts common and farming
difficult with sparse rainfall.
o Changes in land management – stone
bunds and zai pits.
19. Success at scale
o Contour bunds established on
200,000 to 300,000 ha.
o Yields double those on unimproved
land.
o Tree cover and diversity increased.
o Groundwater levels rising.
20. Benefits for food production,
adaptation and mitigation
o Food production:
predicted that the improved land will
produce enough to feed 500,000 to 750,000
people.
increased diversity of food, health benefits.
o Adaptation:
contour bunds able to cope with changing
weather.
o Mitigation:
land management prevents further
worsening of soil quality.
21. Safety net programmes boost
food security and climate
change resilience
o Increasing frequency of drought depleting
asset base of smallholder farmers.
o 2005 Productive Safety Net Programme
(PSNP).
o Household Asset Building Program
(HABP).
22. Success at scale
o Both programmes reduce the ‘hunger gap’.
o Child nutrition and food security increased.
o Increase in livestock holdings.
o Those enrolled in both programmes
produced 147 kg more grain.
23. Benefits for food production,
adaptation, mitigation
o Food production:
improved the immediate food security of
households.
o Adaptation:
strengthened resilience to droughts and floods.
increased ability to adapt to longer-term climate
change.
o Mitigation:
adopted agricultural practices likely to increase
carbon sequestration.
24. Reducing Danish agriculture’s
contribution to climate change
o Denmark agricultural sector contributes
17% of emissions.
o 2009 Agreement on Green Growth.
o Measures to promote organic farming, reestablish wetlands, reduce pesticides.
o Efficiency in resource and energy use.
25. Success at scale
o 1990 – 2009 emissions declined by 28%.
o 31% reduction in nitrous oxide emissions –
improved use of manure, 40% reduction in use
of inorganic fertilizer.
o Emissions could be cut by a further 50-70%.
26. Benefits for food production,
adaptation and mitigation
o Food production:
emissions cut without reducing food production.
o Adaptation:
adapting agricultural practices to become more
energy efficient.
o Mitigation:
target to use half of all manure produced to
create biogas by 2020.
will reduce methane production from manure
and reduce dependence on fossil fuel.
27. Persuading Brazil’s farmers to
adopt low-carbon agriculture
o Agriculture second largest source of greenhouse
gases.
o 2010 Low-Carbon Agriculture (ABC) Plan – aims to
promote sustainable agriculture while increasing
efficiency.
o Provides low-interest loans for sustainable
agricultural practices.
28. Success at scale
o Ambitious goals.
o 2011 – 2000 projects approved, total value
US$ 251 million.
o Uptake constrained by a number of factors.
29. Benefits for food production,
adaptation and mitigation
o Food production:
restoration of pastures could increase beef
yields six fold.
o Adaptation:
promotes sustainable agricultural systems.
o Mitigation:
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
increase carbon sequestration.
prevent further expansion into the Amazon
region.
30. Kenyan farmers sell carbon
credits to BioCarbon Fund
o 2010 – Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project (KACP).
o Helping farmers adopt sustainable agricultural land
management.
o World Bank’s ‘Adoption of Sustainable Land
Management’ methodology.
o Bottom-up approach to monitoring.
31. Success at scale
o 15,000 farmers and 800 farmer groups
have adopted sustainable practices,
applied to 12,000 ha of degraded land.
o Target – to enrol 60,000 farmers on 45,000
ha by 2016.
o Would result in reducing greenhouse gas
emissions by over 60,000 tonnes.
32. Benefits for food production,
adaptation and mitigation
o Food production:
Improved land management.
Increasing crop yields.
o Adaptation:
reducing vulnerability of farmers to
climate change.
o Mitigation:
restoring degraded land.
33. ‘Plan Maroc Vert’ gets climate
change makeover
o 2008 ‘Plan Maroc Vert’.
o 2011 ‘Integrating Climate Change in the
Implementation of the Plan Maroc Vert’
project.
o Measures proposed could reduce emissions
by 63.5 million tonnes over 20 years.
34. Success at scale
o Increased production – citrus production
20% increase, cereal 52%, dates 45%, red
meat 45%.
o Could further reduce greenhouse gas
emissions.
35. Benefits for food production,
adaptation and mitigation
o Food production:
increased agricultural yields.
o Adaptation:
financing climate change adaption
measures.
o Mitigation:
could reduce emissions through
sequestration of carbon in soil.
36. LESSONS LEARNT
Five key lessons for future interventions and global negotiations:
1. Trade-offs between CSA aligned initiatives and current food security
and development priorities can be avoided, at least in the near-term
and over limited spatial scale
2. Cost-effective and comparable indices for measuring GHG fluxes and
adaptive impacts realized through CSA
3. Strong government support is crucial for large-scale success, both
from a policy perspective as well as in elaborating scaling up
frameworks that most effectively utilize the comparative advantages
of the local partners involved
4. Upfront costs are usually substantial in such large initiatives, but can
be met from multiple sources
5. An iterative learning approach in large-scale initiatives with
investment in capacity strengthening of the partners involved is critical
37. CONCLUSIONS
• Case studies demonstrate the
potential of agriculture to adapt to a
changing climate.
• Cases meet the three-part goal.
• Challenge to promote widespread
adoption of climate-smart agricultural
interventions around the world.
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