The document discusses the Comaco model, which links smallholder farmers to carbon markets while promoting sustainable practices through agriculture and forestry. It highlights Comaco's initiatives, including the launch of a high-efficiency cookstove project and various land use interventions to reduce environmental degradation. Data from annual farmer surveys will be used to assess the effectiveness of these initiatives in enhancing conservation and sustainability.

1. Community Markets for Conservation: Addressing Climate Change with Landscape Based Approaches
CCAFS & FAO
Smallholder Mitigation: Whole Farm and Landscape Accounting Presenter: John Fay 27 October 2011

2. COMACO Ltd.
Products that conserve: turning poachers into farmers and poor farmers into better farmers
Supported by:
Community Markets for Conservation
Presentation Acknowledgement and sincere thanks to Dr. Dale Lewis and the entire COMACO Team

3. Farm practices
Crop divers.
Soil improv.
Increased yields
Small-scale farmer Trade benefits
Dividend
Commodity price
Conservation incentives
Storage
Product manufact.
Marketing
Sales
Business
Transaction
 Trading centers   Sales centers 
at local depots
COMACO Model: A Dynamic Value-chain Process

4. Chinsali Serenje
Chama Lundazi
Mfuwe Chipata
Nyimba
Lusaka

5. COMACO CARBON APPOACH
 COMACO is linking to the carbon markets to increase sustainability through two distinct streams
Household products that reduce environmental degradation
 Launching COMACO high efficiency cookstove project in 2012 in partnership with Shared Value Africa
 100% commercial approach
Agriculture, Forestry, Other Land Use (AFOLU) Approach
 Using a landscape based approach
 Requires additional donor support

6. COMACO CARBON APPOACH
 Agriculture, Forestry, Other Land Use (AFOLU) Approach
 Land use practice interventions driven by COMACO:
 Agroforestry including Gliricidia & Faidherbia Albida: CDM Standard AR-AMS0004 version 2
 Minimum / no till conservation agriculture
 Modeling approach based on annual survey
 Decrease in fertiliser usage: suppressed demand?
 89 kg Avg. SSF vs. 400 kg minimum service level
 Modeling approach based on annual survey
 Exploring REDD through Community Conservation Areas, currently under development

7. COMACO CARBON APPOACH
 MRV based on annual COMACO farmer survey
 Approach fully integrated into overall COMACO model: participation & aggregation, CMS, geo-coordinates, integrity
 2010: 17,999 COMACO farmers surveyed
 2011: target of 45,300 COMACO farmers surveyed
 Farmer Card
 Annual Group Compliance Assessment
 Subset sample verified by independent auditor
 Emission reductions based on conservative default benchmarks (modeling approach) regarding conservation farming adoption, fertiliser reduction and agroforestry

8. Discussion
Project Coordinators:
www.sharedvalueafrica.com
john.fay@sharedvalueafrica.com
sam.bell@sharedvalueafrica.com
COMACO
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