The FAO-MICCA Programme has worked in several countries to integrate Climate-Smart Agriculture approaches into development activities through partnerships. Field projects in Kenya and Tanzania tested menus of practices with farmers to improve food security, adaptation, and reduce emissions. Projects focused on improved fodder, agroforestry, and soil conservation. Adoption was influenced by access to training, labor, and land tenure security. MICCA also supported national climate policies and guidance materials to scale up sustainable agriculture and land use practices.

1. Field experience, research and national
agriculture policies contributing to global
climate efforts
- FAO-MICCA Programme results
Martial Bernoux, Maria Nuutinen & Janie Rioux
Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme, FAO
Side event: Sustainable agriculture and land use enhancing climate
action and increasing productivity
EU Pavilion, COP22, Marrakech, 11 November 2016

2. • SBSTA: FAO calls for a holistic approach for agriculture
sectors
• Contributing jointly to food security, adaptation and
resilience as well as reducing and removing GHG emissions
• MICCA Programme (since 2011)
• has found ways to addressing climate change in smallholder
farming systems,
• has made an impact at the national & global levels.
Boy running from peat fire, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Photo: Alue Dohong
Context
FAO & SDG: End hunger & support countries in achieving food
security and improve nutrition.
Objective: Make agriculture sectors (crop, livestock, forestry,
fisheries and aquaculture) more productive and sustainable

3. MICCA country-work approach
• Work through partnerships: Integrate the Climate-Smart Agriculture
(CSA) approach into on-going development activities
• Context-specific!
• 3 dimensions: food security, adaptation & GHG emission reductions
• Test and demonstrate the synergies and trade-offs
• Provide quantifiable evidence on CSA to and work with farmers,
national and local decision makers and international organizations
and donors
• Development and research partner organizations have disseminated
the project’s messages and integrated its findings and lessons into
their own work

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Field activities
1. Developing menus of practices
with farmers
2. Implementation through
gender-sensitive farmer field
schools
3. Developing research
methodology
4. Evaluation: adoption & benefits
5. Upscaling: Sharing results with
policy makers and other project
staff.
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Piloting CSA in 2 countries
MICCA Pilot Project in Kenya
Integrated crop-livestock system of Western Kenya
Improving milk yield and income of dairy producers
while reducing the climate change “footprint” of dairy
production systems
MICCA Pilot Project in United Republic of Tanzania
Cereal-based family farming in the highlands
Combining conservation agriculture practices with
agroforestry, improved cook-stoves, and soil and
water conservation to improve yield and
livelihoods and reduce burning, erosion and
deforestation

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Field results in Kenya
• Adoption of improved fodder grasses was associated with farm size,
number of livestock, and labor availability.
• Agroforestry adoption was associated with secured land tenure.
• The price of milk in the wet season influences both the planted
fodder crops and agroforestry.
• Participation in trainings increased significantly the adoption of
improved fodder, agroforestry, composting, and tree nursery.
93% 89% 88%
41% 39%
9%
1%
0
20
40
60
80
100
Agroforestry
Planted
Fodder Planted Manure
Collected
Tree Nursery on
farm
Feed
Conservation
Composting Biogas
%Adoption
35% of farmers
adopting the
practices were
women

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Field results in Tanzania
• Insecure land tenure and small land size were barriers to
adoption of agroforestry and soil-water conservation
measures
• Availability of labor and capacity to hire labor were
incentives for uptake of double digging and crop rotation, as
these practices are labor demanding.
• Access to information, farmer to farmer learning and
trainings were determinants of adoption for all practices
75%
50%
40%
15%
6%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Tree planting ICS SWC Tree nursery 2 CA
2 practices of conservation agriculture combining min. tillage, mulching and cover crops

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MICCA’s scaling-up and impact to
larger processes at the national
level

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Results of Field Experiences

10. Policy support was mainly focused
on Kenya, the United Republic of
Tanzania and Viet Nam.
NAMA preparedness projects in
Kenya (dairy livestock) and Vietnam
(rice and energy)
MICCA’s Focus areas: Policies

11. Promoting gender aspects of the
climate change work to ensure
sustainability
MICCA’s Focus areas

12. • Guidebooks, videos and learning materials prepared and
widely disseminated on a large variety of topics, including:
• livestock value chain GHG emission estimation, sustainable
management of peatlands, and
• Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs).
• The project has focused on the main GHG emission sources in
agriculture sectors, including livestock, land use change and
peatlands.
• MICCA: 11 online Communities of Practice (CoPs) were
established, with 11 000 members from at least 130 countries:
learning and exchanging information, increasing innovation &
uptake of sustainable agriculture and land use.
MICCA is much more

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Take-home messages
1. Work together with smallholder farmers
• Building context specific menus of practices
2. Combine traditional and indigenous knowledge
with latest research results, climate models
3. Take into account gender throughout the steps
4. Monitor the impact
• easy tools available e.g. for GHG emission reduction
estimations
5. Build viable and alternative livelihood sources
6. Invest in knowledge-sharing and partnerships.

14. MICCA and partners thank its donors!
Thank you for your attention
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Contact: Micca@fao.org