http://www.fao.org/climatechange The slides give an overview of FAO’s work on Climate Change, the key challenges and the responses to its global goal. Key areas of work are building resilience and climate-smart agriculture. The presentation discusses the activities at national and international level, UNFCCC submissions and tools, as well as the FAO’s technical knowledge found in publications. The presentation was made by Fred Snijders, Senior Natural Resources Officer in the Climate and Environment Division at the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans Workshop from the 5-7 April 2016, Rome, Italy © FAO: http://www.fao.org

1. FAO’s Work on Climate Change
Fred Snijders
Senior Natural Resources Officer
Climate and Environment Division

2. Contributes to FAO’s Global Goal:
eliminating hunger, food insecurity and
malnutrition
• Addressing key challenges:
– Increasing demand for food;
– Dietary changes;
– Diminishing growth rates of yields;
– Increasing pressure on natural resources;
– Impact of climate change (growing conditions, extreme
events).

3. Contributes to FAO’s Global Goal:
eliminating hunger, food insecurity and
malnutrition
• Our responses:
- Increase, in a sustainable manner, productivity and income
growth in agriculture;
- Support adaptation across the agricultural sectors to expected
climatic changes;
- Build resilience both to short and long-term changes and extreme
weather events;
- Reduce, where possible, the greenhouse gas emission intensity of
production systems.

4. Contributes to FAO’s Global Goal:
eliminating hunger, food insecurity and
malnutrition
• Two key areas of work in FAO aim at an integrated
response:
- Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)
- Resilience to natural hazards and resulting disasters
CSA: An approach to help guide actions to transform and re-
orient agricultural systems to effectively and sustainably
support food security under the new realities of climate
change.

5. Levels of activities:
• At the global level: international
- Support to international governance mechanisms that assist in
the transformation of the agricultural sectors towards becoming
more climate-smart.
Involvement in UNFCCC processes, including technical
submissions, the Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture,
Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), GRA, etc.

6. Submissions to UNFCCC 2016
• A-TEP: Concrete opportunities for strengthening resilience,
reducing vulnerabilities and increasing the understanding and
implementation of adaptation actions
• SBSTA 44
- Submission C: Identification of adaptation measures
- Submission D: Identification and assessment of agricultural
practices and technologies
• Excom of the Warsaw International Mechanisms for Loss
and Damage: Best Practices, challenges and lessons learned
from existing financial instruments at all levels that address the
risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of
climate change.

7. Levels of activities:
• At the global level: normative/knowledge products
- Identification and assessment of technological, management and
policy options for climate change adaptation and mitigation under a
climate-smart agriculture approach.
Often through involvement in country (pilot) activities to test and develop
the norms, standards, approaches, methodologies, the basic data;
o Harnessing and sharing FAO’s technical knowledge as a specialized
technical agency

8. FAO’s technical knowledge

9. FAO’s technical knowledge

10. FAO’s technical knowledge

11. FAO’s technical knowledge

12. FAO’s technical knowledge
CSA Tools to inform action
ExACT GLEAM SHARP MOSAICC

13. Levels of activities:
• At the country level:
- Technical support and capacity development of key institutions and
organizations to provide the essential support for the sustained
implementation and uptake of locally appropriate climate-smart
production systems.
Our technical on-the-ground work, may include Farmer Field Schools,
support to extension services, etc.
Climate Change interventions contained in e.q. INDC’s and NAPs are
realized through implementation of adaptation actions, NAMA’s., etc

14. Levels of activities:
• At the country level:
- Support to countries in creating the required policy, financial and enabling
environment, which provides women and men farmers, foresters and fisher
folk the knowledge and access to resources and services necessary to
transition to sustainable, climate change resilient and economically viable
production systems.
The CSA approach as developed through FAO’s EPIC programme
Assessment of climate change impact, create the evidence base, economically,
socially and environmentally, stakeholder consultation, identification of barriers
and trade-offs for adoption, resulting in formulation of policy recommendation,
of investment proposals for large-scale implementation on-the-ground.
Cross-sectoral!

15. Levels of activities:
• At the country level:
- Support countries in the preparation of, and readiness for, UNFCCC
related planning, implementation, reporting and financing
mechanism and opportunities that contribute to the transformation
to climate-smart agriculture.
REDD+, GHG inventories and BUR’s, formulating NAMA’s and related MRV,
and now: readiness for GCF and INDCs, as well as GEF.
Financing is crucial for large-scale transformation of agricultural systems
and the GCF offers a wide range of opportunities that need to be explored

16. Levels of activities:
• At the country level:
– Support to countries to ensure that the agricultural sectors and the
CSA approach are included in the mid to long-term development
planning processes and investment decisions.
o Includes National Agriculture Investment Planning and programs;
o National Adaptations Plans (NAPs) – agriculture aspects
Much country work, in particular at the policy and planning level is partly
overlapping and strongly complementary to other country work.

17. National Adaptation Plans
NAPs are a crucial element in our response to Climate Change.
Integrating agriculture into NAPs is vital. Over 95 % of countries that included
an adaptation section in iNDCs give an important place to agriculture
It is crosses all agricultural sectors, covering crops, livestock, forestry,
fisheries and aquaculture, depending on country conditions
Adaptation should be realized within the larger framework of food security,
in all its dimensions and based on proper assessments of impacts and
options
Should be done in full dialogue with all relevant players in a range of
Ministries
FAO stands ready to support countries and to apply its this wide area of
knowledge, tools and expertize

18. Thank
you