This document summarizes a poster presentation on homestead farming systems (HFS) in coastal Bangladesh. The summary includes:
- HFS is a locally adapted system that increases resilience to climate change impacts like salinity rise and crop damage. It integrates crops, aquaculture, livestock, and trees.
- A study of 480 households found HFS enhances income and dietary diversity compared to other systems. HFS households had 39% higher average income and met more of their nutritional needs.
- HFS supports over 50 species and year-round production. Its biodiversity helps mitigate climate risks and boost the rural economy.
Barriers to adoption: policy & institutional arrangements to support CSAFAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to as background to the Scientific conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture held in Montpellier, France, on 16-18 March 2015.
This document summarizes a presentation on strengthening smallholder farmer resilience to climate change through agroecology. It discusses how modern technologies have not favored sustainability and have negatively impacted soil, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Agroecology is presented as a sustainable alternative that can improve food security, income, soil fertility, food quality and safety, and resilience to climate change. The presentation recommends reforms to support agroecology through policies, sector incentives, and building farmer capacity.
This document summarizes DAI's work on climate-smart agriculture projects. It discusses DAI's mission to improve people's lives through development work. It then outlines several of DAI's flagship projects that incorporate climate-smart agriculture programming, including projects in Central America, Kenya, Indonesia, and the Pacific region. The document discusses how climate change impacts agriculture through changing weather patterns. It presents a framework for assessing farm system stability and identifying factors that stabilize or destabilize systems. Finally, it introduces a Farm-Level Climate Smart Agriculture Assessment Tool that DAI is developing and seeking feedback on through further piloting.
Launch of the Southeast Asia office of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security http://ccafs.cgiar.org
7 May 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Presentation by Bruce Campbell, CCAFS Program Director
This document summarizes climate-smart agriculture (CSA) options for mixed crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the importance of these systems for food security now and in the future given population growth. Several CSA practices are presented and evaluated based on their potential impacts on production, resilience, mitigation, feasibility, and adoption constraints. The analysis finds that CSA options often involve trade-offs. Additionally, broad-brush targeting of interventions is not appropriate given context-specific impacts. Improving the evidence base and addressing adoption constraints will help scale up promising CSA practices.
This document summarizes a poster presentation on homestead farming systems (HFS) in coastal Bangladesh. The summary includes:
- HFS is a locally adapted system that increases resilience to climate change impacts like salinity rise and crop damage. It integrates crops, aquaculture, livestock, and trees.
- A study of 480 households found HFS enhances income and dietary diversity compared to other systems. HFS households had 39% higher average income and met more of their nutritional needs.
- HFS supports over 50 species and year-round production. Its biodiversity helps mitigate climate risks and boost the rural economy.
Barriers to adoption: policy & institutional arrangements to support CSAFAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to as background to the Scientific conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture held in Montpellier, France, on 16-18 March 2015.
This document summarizes a presentation on strengthening smallholder farmer resilience to climate change through agroecology. It discusses how modern technologies have not favored sustainability and have negatively impacted soil, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Agroecology is presented as a sustainable alternative that can improve food security, income, soil fertility, food quality and safety, and resilience to climate change. The presentation recommends reforms to support agroecology through policies, sector incentives, and building farmer capacity.
This document summarizes DAI's work on climate-smart agriculture projects. It discusses DAI's mission to improve people's lives through development work. It then outlines several of DAI's flagship projects that incorporate climate-smart agriculture programming, including projects in Central America, Kenya, Indonesia, and the Pacific region. The document discusses how climate change impacts agriculture through changing weather patterns. It presents a framework for assessing farm system stability and identifying factors that stabilize or destabilize systems. Finally, it introduces a Farm-Level Climate Smart Agriculture Assessment Tool that DAI is developing and seeking feedback on through further piloting.
Launch of the Southeast Asia office of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security http://ccafs.cgiar.org
7 May 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Presentation by Bruce Campbell, CCAFS Program Director
This document summarizes climate-smart agriculture (CSA) options for mixed crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the importance of these systems for food security now and in the future given population growth. Several CSA practices are presented and evaluated based on their potential impacts on production, resilience, mitigation, feasibility, and adoption constraints. The analysis finds that CSA options often involve trade-offs. Additionally, broad-brush targeting of interventions is not appropriate given context-specific impacts. Improving the evidence base and addressing adoption constraints will help scale up promising CSA practices.
1) Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) aims to increase agricultural productivity and incomes while adapting to and mitigating climate change impacts. However, CSA implementation has focused more on mitigation through carbon sequestration, which is more suitable for large-scale farms in wealthy countries.
2) Many recommended CSA practices are not widely adopted, even in developed countries like the US. Industrial agriculture contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and soil degradation through monocultures and overuse of chemical inputs.
3) Agroecology is a more effective framework than CSA for smallholder farmers in Africa, as it rebuilds soil fertility and resilience through diversified practices like intercropping and composting,
Keating - Sustainable intensification and the food security challenge CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Keynote presentation by Philip Thornton, CCAFS Flagship Leader on Priorities and Policies for CSA, at the 3rd Conference on Agriculture and Climate Change in Budapest on 25 March 2019.
This document summarizes a presentation on steps to climate-smart agriculture given at the Global Science Conference in Wageningen, Netherlands in October 2011. It outlines the global challenges of food security, adaptation to climate change, and reducing agriculture's ecological footprint. It defines climate-smart agriculture as having food security, adaptation, and mitigation benefits. Key steps proposed include developing a UNFCCC work program on agriculture, implementing proven technologies and practices, major investments in learning-by-doing, and realigning research agendas to focus on decision tools, climate risk management, multi-benefit systems, and pro-poor mitigation options.
van Asten P. 2014. Implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
Contents:
1. CCAFS – what we do
2. What is CSA in the African context
3. Best bet CSA technologies
4. CSA services and approaches
5. How can we identify the priorities?
6. Collaborative possibilities
The multilevel CSA monitoring set of standard core uptake and outcome indicators + expanded indicators linked to a rapid and reliable ICT based data collection instrument to systematically
assess and monitor:
- CSA Adoption/ Access to CIS
- CSA effects on food security and livelihoods household level)
- CSA effects on farm performance
ICRISAT Annual Report - Agricultural and digital technologies approach- Integ...ICRISAT
Faced with frequent unpredictable dry spells, farmers rely on mobile climate advisories for critical and timely information to decide when to sow crops and when to store or release harvested rainwater in villages.
By Subhasis Mandal, D. Burman, S.K. Sarangi, B.K. Bandyopadhyay, B. Maji (Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, West Bengal, India)
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
Integration of CSA in agriculture- presentation at UFAAS ToT workshopFaith Okiror
This document provides an overview of climate smart agriculture (CSA) presented at a workshop. It defines CSA as an approach to address food security and climate change by improving productivity, resilience, and reducing emissions. The challenges facing African agriculture are described, including poor soils, drought, and weak adaptive capacity. The principles and benefits of CSA practices like conservation agriculture are explained. Steps for scaling up CSA are discussed, including characterization, prioritization, implementation, and monitoring. Strategies to spread CSA techniques across communities are outlined, such as through innovation platforms, partnerships, capacity building, and access to resources.
This presentation was made by Dr. Robert B. Zougmoré, CCAFS Africa Program Leader, at the WASCAL Science Symposium, 19-21 June 2018, Tang Palace Hotel, Accra, Ghana
the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Sri Lanka Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) summoned a symposium on “Convergence of policies and programs for sustainable and climate resilient agriculture and role of agricultural economics association in contemporary world” on December 13, 2014 as part of Joint Annual Research Forum at Hectare Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The aim of the symposium was to bring together researchers from South Asian countries to present the policy measures taken within their countries regarding climate –smart agriculture and to explore the convergence among them for the near future.
Climate - Smart Agriculture: adaptation, mitigation andfood security in the l...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
This document discusses climate-smart agriculture, which aims to support food security through agricultural practices that help communities adapt to climate change impacts while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It provides examples of climate-smart practices like system of rice intensification and agroforestry that have increased yields, farmer incomes and mitigated emissions in many countries. However, food insecurity remains a major barrier that must first be addressed before farmers are able to adopt new practices and make long-term investments in improving resilience and reducing emissions. Overcoming barriers like insecure land tenure, lack of access to markets and training is also important to enable widespread adoption of climate-smart agriculture.
Crop livestock farming systems research in semi-arid southern Africa IIICRISAT
This document summarizes research on improving crop-livestock farming systems in semi-arid southern Africa. Three key points:
1) Innovation platforms have helped farmers in Marara, Mozambique increase food security and resilience, but need further strengthening to promote learning and realize their full potential.
2) Research is using integrated modeling of climate impacts on crops and livestock to assess benefits of adaptation options for smallholder farms in Zimbabwe under different climate scenarios. This indicates most farmers will lose from climate change without adaptation.
3) Plans for 2016 include strengthening innovation platform facilitation and monitoring, publishing research results, and developing capacity and materials for scaling integrated market-oriented mixed farming systems.
The CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, with the Environmental Change Institute, gave this presentation on enhancing climate resilience of food production in the Greater Mekong.
1) Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) aims to increase agricultural productivity and incomes while adapting to and mitigating climate change impacts. However, CSA implementation has focused more on mitigation through carbon sequestration, which is more suitable for large-scale farms in wealthy countries.
2) Many recommended CSA practices are not widely adopted, even in developed countries like the US. Industrial agriculture contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and soil degradation through monocultures and overuse of chemical inputs.
3) Agroecology is a more effective framework than CSA for smallholder farmers in Africa, as it rebuilds soil fertility and resilience through diversified practices like intercropping and composting,
Keating - Sustainable intensification and the food security challenge CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Keynote presentation by Philip Thornton, CCAFS Flagship Leader on Priorities and Policies for CSA, at the 3rd Conference on Agriculture and Climate Change in Budapest on 25 March 2019.
This document summarizes a presentation on steps to climate-smart agriculture given at the Global Science Conference in Wageningen, Netherlands in October 2011. It outlines the global challenges of food security, adaptation to climate change, and reducing agriculture's ecological footprint. It defines climate-smart agriculture as having food security, adaptation, and mitigation benefits. Key steps proposed include developing a UNFCCC work program on agriculture, implementing proven technologies and practices, major investments in learning-by-doing, and realigning research agendas to focus on decision tools, climate risk management, multi-benefit systems, and pro-poor mitigation options.
van Asten P. 2014. Implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
Contents:
1. CCAFS – what we do
2. What is CSA in the African context
3. Best bet CSA technologies
4. CSA services and approaches
5. How can we identify the priorities?
6. Collaborative possibilities
The multilevel CSA monitoring set of standard core uptake and outcome indicators + expanded indicators linked to a rapid and reliable ICT based data collection instrument to systematically
assess and monitor:
- CSA Adoption/ Access to CIS
- CSA effects on food security and livelihoods household level)
- CSA effects on farm performance
ICRISAT Annual Report - Agricultural and digital technologies approach- Integ...ICRISAT
Faced with frequent unpredictable dry spells, farmers rely on mobile climate advisories for critical and timely information to decide when to sow crops and when to store or release harvested rainwater in villages.
By Subhasis Mandal, D. Burman, S.K. Sarangi, B.K. Bandyopadhyay, B. Maji (Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, West Bengal, India)
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
Integration of CSA in agriculture- presentation at UFAAS ToT workshopFaith Okiror
This document provides an overview of climate smart agriculture (CSA) presented at a workshop. It defines CSA as an approach to address food security and climate change by improving productivity, resilience, and reducing emissions. The challenges facing African agriculture are described, including poor soils, drought, and weak adaptive capacity. The principles and benefits of CSA practices like conservation agriculture are explained. Steps for scaling up CSA are discussed, including characterization, prioritization, implementation, and monitoring. Strategies to spread CSA techniques across communities are outlined, such as through innovation platforms, partnerships, capacity building, and access to resources.
This presentation was made by Dr. Robert B. Zougmoré, CCAFS Africa Program Leader, at the WASCAL Science Symposium, 19-21 June 2018, Tang Palace Hotel, Accra, Ghana
the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Sri Lanka Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) summoned a symposium on “Convergence of policies and programs for sustainable and climate resilient agriculture and role of agricultural economics association in contemporary world” on December 13, 2014 as part of Joint Annual Research Forum at Hectare Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The aim of the symposium was to bring together researchers from South Asian countries to present the policy measures taken within their countries regarding climate –smart agriculture and to explore the convergence among them for the near future.
Climate - Smart Agriculture: adaptation, mitigation andfood security in the l...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
This document discusses climate-smart agriculture, which aims to support food security through agricultural practices that help communities adapt to climate change impacts while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It provides examples of climate-smart practices like system of rice intensification and agroforestry that have increased yields, farmer incomes and mitigated emissions in many countries. However, food insecurity remains a major barrier that must first be addressed before farmers are able to adopt new practices and make long-term investments in improving resilience and reducing emissions. Overcoming barriers like insecure land tenure, lack of access to markets and training is also important to enable widespread adoption of climate-smart agriculture.
Crop livestock farming systems research in semi-arid southern Africa IIICRISAT
This document summarizes research on improving crop-livestock farming systems in semi-arid southern Africa. Three key points:
1) Innovation platforms have helped farmers in Marara, Mozambique increase food security and resilience, but need further strengthening to promote learning and realize their full potential.
2) Research is using integrated modeling of climate impacts on crops and livestock to assess benefits of adaptation options for smallholder farms in Zimbabwe under different climate scenarios. This indicates most farmers will lose from climate change without adaptation.
3) Plans for 2016 include strengthening innovation platform facilitation and monitoring, publishing research results, and developing capacity and materials for scaling integrated market-oriented mixed farming systems.
The CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, with the Environmental Change Institute, gave this presentation on enhancing climate resilience of food production in the Greater Mekong.
Policy for Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture/Rice Development in Contex...Sri Lmb
Ms. Ladda Viriyangura presented on 'Policy for Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture/Rice Development in Context of Climate Change in Thailand' at Regional Review and Planning Workshop 2017, Hanoi, VIetnam
Futuristic multi-model approach : Customizing adaptation packages to reduce v...ICRISAT
Using a multi-model framework for climate, crop, livestock and socio-economic simulation, customized climate change adaptation packages were developed for farmers in Nkayi, Zimbabwe. The computer simulated scenarios are helping policy makers to make crucial decisions to support farmers.
Presentation made in CIP (Lima) on a vision for climate smart crops in 2030, focussing on potato. Presented in the Global Crop Diversity Trust and CIP organised meeting on "Expert consultation workshop on the use of crop wild relatives for pre-breeding in potato".
Brief On Sustainable Agriculture Precious Finalguest502056
This document discusses sustainable agriculture as an alternative to conventional agriculture. It provides definitions and principles of sustainable agriculture, highlighting its focus on environmental, economic and social sustainability. Evidence shows organic and sustainable methods can produce sufficient global food supply without increasing farmland. However, adoption of sustainable practices faces constraints like lack of biomass, tenure insecurity, and weak institutions. The document recommends policies and further research to promote sustainable agriculture practices and overcome adoption barriers.
Barrack Okoba: Agricultural land management: capturing synergies between clim...AfricaAdapt
The document summarizes research on the synergies between agricultural adaptation, mitigation, and profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that many practices that increase farms' resilience to climate change also increase productivity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For example, improved crop varieties, fertilizer use, and water harvesting can boost yields while also sequestering carbon and adapting to climate change impacts. The research aims to identify "win-win-win" strategies that provide benefits across adaptation, mitigation, and profits to inform policies that promote more holistic agricultural and development approaches.
CCAFS East Africa sought to depart from business-as-usual
approaches, by engaging leading global and regional
experts, policymakers and other stakeholders to revise
East Africa’s theory of change, impact pathways and
develop an integrated and coherent climate-smart
research for development strategy: that is
• More closely aligned with CCAFS global flagships
and cross-cutting themes to address the major
challenges of agriculture in East Africa under
changing climate;
• Takes into account transformative agricultural
innovations for climate action in agriculture
highlighted in CCAFS phase II proposal and other
CCAFS co-sponsored events; and
• Leads to future research projects well aligned with
national, regional and global priorities that enable
back flowing of proven results and climate-smart
agriculture technological innovations to transform
East Africa’s smallholder agriculture, influence
policies and practices, and create an inclusive
enabling and investment environment.
The document discusses climate smart agriculture as an approach to sustainable development. It describes how climate smart agriculture seeks to preserve natural resources, transition agricultural production systems, enhance food security, mitigate climate change, increase productivity, use inputs efficiently, and increase resilience. It provides examples of climate smart agriculture practices and technologies adopted, as well as challenges and recommendations for the future approach.
This document discusses redefining Africa's agrarian development policies in the face of climate change. It outlines that agricultural productivity in Africa has not kept pace with population growth, with cereal yields stagnating. Climate change impacts agro-ecosystems through changes to the environment and socioeconomics. The challenges include strengthening rural development and governance, improving productivity, and managing natural resources sustainably. Integrated actions are needed across economic growth, sustainable environments, and social equity to help rural communities weather the effects of climate change.
1. The Global Futures and Strategic Foresight program aims to improve quantitative modeling tools to inform priority setting in the CGIAR through scenario analysis and impact assessment.
2. The program involves all 15 CGIAR centers and other partners in building an integrated modeling framework and stronger community of practice for foresight.
3. The objectives are to improve modeling tools, strengthen the foresight community, improve assessments of alternative global futures, and inform research, investment, and policy decisions through collective scenario analysis.
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.
Brief On Sustainable Agriculture Precious FinalDavidAndersson
Sustainable agriculture aims to address issues with conventional agriculture like persistent poverty, hunger, and environmental damage. It involves practices that integrate soil, crop, and livestock production while reducing external inputs and emphasizing techniques adapted to local conditions. Studies show organic and sustainable systems in developing countries can produce higher yields than conventional farms and meet global food demand. However, adoption of sustainable practices remains low due to constraints like lack of information, biomass availability, and unsupportive policies. Recommendations include tailored approaches, market support, institutional strengthening, and research to further understanding and address myths about sustainable agriculture.
1. Papua New Guinea has a population of 8.5 million that is growing at 2.7% annually. Agriculture makes up 23% of GDP but productivity is low. 28% of the population lives below the poverty line.
2. Climate change poses serious threats to PNG's agricultural systems through increasing temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and more extreme weather events. Crop suitability is changing, which impacts food security.
3. Responses are needed to help smallholders adapt, including technologies to increase resilience, understanding and responding to changes in pests and diseases, crop diversity, and efficient harvesting and storage. Making transitions requires developing adapted seed varieties and crops, assessing options for intensification, and strengthening local institutions
Realizing Rural and Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia – Some Reflectionsessp2
The document discusses agriculture and rural transformation in Ethiopia. It analyzes the current state, progress made, drivers of progress, remaining vulnerabilities and bottlenecks. Key bottlenecks include inadequate seeds, small farm sizes, land degradation, and challenges with policy implementation capability. Priorities for accelerating transformation include promoting land rental markets, transforming opportunities for small farms, expanding seed research, enhancing policy capabilities, and developing a long-term program to transform dryland and degraded areas.
Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS CIATCIAT
CCAFS aims to help agriculture and food systems adapt to and mitigate climate change through research. It has 4 themes: 1) adaptation to progressive climate change through technologies, practices and policies; 2) adaptation through managing climate risk at farm and food system levels; 3) pro-poor climate change mitigation; and 4) integration for decision making. Research is conducted in 3 focus regions - Indo-Gangetic Plains, West Africa, and East Africa - home to over 1 billion people dependent on agriculture. The goals are to close yield gaps, develop new adaptation strategies, and enable supportive policies and institutions from farm to national levels to strengthen food security under climate change.
DRM Webinar III: Benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in ...FAO
Over the past decade, economic damages resulting from natural hazards have amounted to USD 1.5 trillion caused by geophysical hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides, as well as hydro-meteorological hazards, including storms, floods, droughts and wild fires. Climate-related disasters, in particular, are increasing worldwide and expected to intensify with climate change. They disproportionately affect food insecure, poor people – over 75 percent of whom derive their livelihoods from agriculture. Agricultural livelihoods can only be protected from multiple hazards if adequate disaster risk reduction and management efforts are strengthened within and across sectors, anchored in the context-specific needs of local livelihoods systems.
This series of three webinars on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRR/M) in agriculture is organized to:
1. Discuss the new opportunities and pressing challenges in reducing and managing disaster risk in agriculture;
2. Learn and share experiences about disaster risk reduction and management good practices based on concrete examples from the field; discuss how to create evidence and conditions for upscaling of good practices; and
3. Exchange experiences and knowledge with partners around resilience to natural hazards and climate-related disasters.
This webinar covered:
• measuring the benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in agriculture – approaches, methods and findings from FAO’s preliminary study;
• a case study from Uganda on how the agricultural practices for disaster risk reduction were implemented and monitored at farm level; and
• perspective from the Philippines on the challenges and opportunities to upscale the agriculture good practices for disaster risk reduction at national level.
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.
ICRISAT’s soil laboratory registers with FAO’s International Network on Ferti...ICRISAT
The Charles Renard Analytical Laboratory at ICRISAT has been officially registered with the International Network on Fertilizer Analysis – a network created in December 2020, to build and strengthen the capacity of laboratories in fertilizer analysis and harmonize fertilizer quality standards. Dr Pushpajeet L Choudhari, Manager of the soil laboratory, said that testing serves as a preventive measure to avoid the misuse of fertilizers leading to better soil management.
Uzbek delegation explores climate-resilient crop options for arid, degraded e...ICRISAT
A delegation from Uzbekistan visited ICRISAT headquarters in India to learn about short-duration second crops suited to their country's arid ecologies. The visitors were interested in crop options that mature before winter and can increase agricultural production through double cropping. They were briefed on dryland crop options from ICRISAT like pearl millet and pigeonpea. The delegation explored opportunities for academic exchange and obtaining genomic services and training from ICRISAT to develop crops suited to Uzbekistan's climate and soils. Previous partnerships between ICRISAT and Uzbekistan in developing salinity tolerant pearl millet varieties were also discussed.
Indian Ambassador to Niger explores opportunities for South-South cooperationICRISAT
The Ambassador of India to Niger, His Excellency Mr Prem K Nair, visited ICRISAT’s research station at Sadore, to explore opportunities for South-South collaboration. He said that the objective of his visit was to learn about ICRISAT’s activities in Niger and to identify possible areas of cooperation for implementing agri-development initiatives introduced by India.
WFP, ICRISAT to partner on climate-resilience, food security, nutrition and l...ICRISAT
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to partner on programs and research to improve food and nutrition security and livelihoods in India against the impacts of climate change. The partnership aims to strengthen efforts bringing together science, knowledge, and implementation frameworks to bolster climate-resilient food security, nutrition, and livelihoods. A significant focus will be on vulnerability analysis at the state level in India and developing a sustainable food systems approach.
Visit by Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner to ICRISAT opens opportunities f...ICRISAT
Dr Doraiswamy Venkateshwaran, Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner stationed in Chennai, recently visited the ICRISAT campus in Hyderabad to learn more about the Institute’s science-backed research for dryland agriculture. Along with his team, he visited the genebank and toured the pigeonpea and finger millet field plots, where Dr Prakash Gangashetty and Dr Sobhan Sajja explained to him the research focus and various traits of hybrids and varieties developed by ICRISAT.
UK Ambassador to Niger discusses climate change adaptation and humanitarian i...ICRISAT
The UK Ambassador to Niger, Ms Catherine Inglehearn, recently visited ICRISAT-Niger to discuss Niger's participation in the upcoming COP26 climate conference and support for implementing climate change adaptation measures. During the visit, Ms Inglehearn spoke about the UK Embassy's humanitarian work with organizations like WFP, UNICEF, and ICRC in Niger's first year of operations. ICRISAT representatives provided an overview of the organization's work empowering youth and women in Niger and recent achievements, which the Ambassador congratulated them on.
New climate-resilient, disease-resistant chickpea varieties coming farmers’ wayICRISAT
Three new chickpea varieties have been developed with enhanced drought tolerance, disease resistance, and increased yield. These varieties were created using genomics-assisted breeding by ICRISAT and ICAR. The new varieties are awaiting approval for cultivation by Indian farmers. Genomics-assisted breeding has delivered six high-yielding chickpea varieties to India in the last three years. Improved chickpea varieties are needed due to drought threats in chickpea growing regions, as drought can cause up to 60% yield losses annually. ICRISAT is leading efforts in genetic analysis of drought tolerance and disease resistance in chickpea using advanced sequencing technologies.
Deputy Collector gets training on agriculture research at ICRISAT HyderabadICRISAT
Mrs Bikumalla Santoshi, Deputy Collector of Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district in Telangana, India, visited ICRISAT, Hyderabad recently as part of her orientation and training in agricultural research. Mrs Santoshi toured the campus and learnt about the research done on dryland cereals and legumes at ICRISAT’s centers in India as well as Africa.
Cereal-legume value chain stakeholders in WCA meet to develop demand-driven a...ICRISAT
The document summarizes a 4-day workshop organized by ICRISAT's Gender Research Program that brought together breeders, value chain stakeholders, and social scientists from West African countries. The goal was to define priority traits for sorghum, millet, and groundnut cultivars based on demand from key stakeholders, especially considering gender-related needs. Studies conducted prior to the workshop assessed trait preferences. Participants agreed production, nutrition, and market attributes must be considered in breeding, with an emphasis on nutrition security and gender equity. Traits like productivity, nutrition, and adaptability to marginal soils were discussed as priorities. The expected output is new product profiles to guide breeding programs in developing market-driven, gender-responsive varieties
ICRISAT to share expertise on sorghum production with farmers in SomaliaICRISAT
ICRISAT is collaborating with the Somali Agricultural Technical Group (SATG) to provide technical support for sorghum production in Somalia. The expertise provided includes identification of sorghum varieties suitable for Somalia, provision of breeder seed of the identified varieties and training of SATG staff and their partners in sorghum seed production.
4CAST: New digital tool to enhance farmers’ access to modern varietiesICRISAT
ICRISAT has launched a new digital tool called 4CAST to improve smallholder farmers' access to improved crop varieties. 4CAST is a user-friendly, data-driven platform that provides a digital catalog of new varieties including information on quality, availability and regional seed stocks. It also offers digital workflows and real-time tracking for stakeholders in seed value chains. The tool helps in planning variety release and seed production to ensure farmers have adequate access to quality seeds of improved varieties. 4CAST collates and shares variety and seed data nationally and regionally to guide stakeholders and provide farmers information to facilitate agricultural transformation.
New ‘one-stop shop’ team formed to take ICRISAT’S plant breeding program in W...ICRISAT
ICRISAT West and Central Africa has reorganized all disciplines of agronomic research (agronomy, breeding, biotechnology/ genomics, integrated crop management, physiology, sociology, agroeconomics, etc.) under one umbrella called the Crop Improvement Operations Team (CIOT). A “one-stop shop” for all crop improvement operations, the CIOT was launched on Tuesday 24 August 2021 at ICRISAT’s Samanko research station in Mali.
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has been awarded the 2021 Africa Food Prize, for work that has improved food security across 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT, a CGIAR Research Center, is a non-profit, non-political public international research organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world.
Rooting for strong partnerships and participatory extension in Nigeria for ro...ICRISAT
To enhance partnerships and make the extension systems for cereals and legumes production technologies in Nigeria more participatory, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and ICRISAT recently organized a workshop for agencies implementing the Kano State Agro Pastoral Development Project.
Understanding consumption preferences for sorghum and millets globallyICRISAT
In support of the objectives of the International Year of Millets (2023), a global study, “Prioritizing Regular Intake of Sorghum and Millets (PRISM)”, is being conducted to understand the potential drivers of sorghum and millets consumption. PRISM is a collaborative effort of researchers in the Markets, Institutions and Policy team at ICRISAT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) to understand the choices that drive the consumption of these nutricereals and to explore their increased inclusion in diets globally for the good of dryland farmers, human health and the environment.
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IV Global Science Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture Issues/research questions for the agriculture and food systems of 2050
1. How can co-design of alternative
agricultural development pathways
help accelerating sustainability
transitions in Southern Africa?
Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Patricia Masikati,
Katrien Descheemaeker, Givious Sisito,
Buhle Francis, Olivier Crespo, Elisha N. Moyo,
Tariro Chipepera, Roberto O. Valdivia
4th Global Science Conference
on Climate Smart Agriculture
Issues / research questions for the
agriculture and food systems of 2050
28-30 November 2017, Johannesburg, South Africa
2. WHY sustainability transitions?
(Changes in temperature by 2050, A. Ruane)
High urgency for new
agricultural frontiers in
Southern Africa
Preparing for deeper
change, to an
unknown future
Governments buy in –
new priorities for
research, investment,
policy directives
3. Representative Agricultural Pathways (RAPS)
Adapted from Valdivia et al. 2015
National
Provincial
District
Global
SSP, Global RAPs,
Economic models and socio-
economic conditions
Prices, production trends
Regional
Regional RAPS, CCAFS scenarios
Key drivers that are likely to
affect future bio-physical and
socio-economic conditions
Drivers
Consistency
RCP 8.5RCP 4.5
Better understand interplay
of key drivers, how these
may influence development
outcomes
4. Antle et al. 2015
Regional Integrated Assessments (AgMIP RIA)
Protocol-based approach
• Integrated modeling framework (climate, crops,
livestock, whole farm economics)
• Evaluate pathway/scenario uncertainties under
future climate, bio-physical, socio-economic
conditions
• Scaling down, up scenarios, interventions through
stakeholder engagement (disaggregation,
aggregation)
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j
w
B. Complex farming systems
under different climate change scenarios
+2 to 3 oC
Precipitation
variable: a decrease
by 25% is possible
Illustrate possible change for
multiple farm sub-systems, in
particular farming contexts
under future bio-physical and
socio-economic conditions
5. Co-learning process, researchers with stakeholders
Joint acknowledgement that
incremental change is insufficient
to lift farmers out of poverty
Co-design transitions to more
transformative sustainable
farming systems
Prepare more conducive context
for farming, where options cannot
be tested in real life situations
Inform future-oriented policy
and investment processes, at
multiple scales and building on
and scaling out existing initiatives
and partnerships.
6. Current agricultural systems
High poverty (85% below poverty line at 1.25 US/day), with
extremely low productivity (maize yield < 500 kg/ha)
High potential for integrated interventions (technologies,
institutions, policies) to increase on-farm profitability and
improve adaptation to climate change.
• Step 1. Crop management that increases biomass
production per unit land e.g. increasing planting
densities, improved dual purpose varieties
(>100% increased cereal yields)
• Step 2. Reconfiguration of farms for activities that
dominate the net returns, e.g. expanding groundnuts;
supplementary fodder and concentrate feeding
( > 200% increased groundnut yields)
• Step 3. Market incentives that drive improved crop and
livestock management, mechanized harvesting and
processing (overall 100-330% increased farm net
returns)
Extremely poor Poor Non-poor
43%
38%
19% extremely
poor
poor
non-poor
Extremely
poor
Poor Non-
poor
Cultivated
land (ha)
1.4 2.0 2.7
Cattle (TLU) 0 5.4 13.9
Family size 6 7 7
Farm heterogeneity in Nkayi district
-100
-50
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
poor
Poor
poor
poor
Poor
poor
poor
Poor
poor
-100
-50
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
or
-100
-50
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
Extremely
poor
Poor Non
poor
-100
-50
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
oor
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
Step1 Step2 Step3
Totalfarmnetreturns(USD) Extremely poor Poor Non poor
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
Base Step1 Step2 Step3
Totalfarmnetreturns(USD)
Extremely poor Poor Non poor
7. Future agricultural systems
RAP 4: “Green Zimbabwe”
Combined with RCP 4.5 and SSP 1, policy
orientation towards sustainability
- Set more land in value (all)
- Expand legumes (all)
- Integrate soil fertility management (all)
- Increase herd sizes (all)
RAP 5: “Grey Zimbabwe”
Combined with RCP 8.5 and SSP3, ineffective
global institutions, barriers to trade
- Market oriented farmers
- Expand land and herd sizes
- Intensify inorganic soil fertility
- Food security oriented farmers
- Maintain maize and goats
- Work off-farm
Climate change adaptation package:
Based on transformational changes in context,
the adaptation package would consist in the
adoption of drought and heat tolerant varieties/
Agricultural Pathways and Scenarios (RAPS)
5
Now 2050
Business as Usual
8. Impacts on crop grain yields
Maize Groundnuts
Cereals
Climate change impacts
Under improved soil fertility, cereals are sensitive to
climate change, regardless of models and soil type
• -ve effects RAP 5 > RAP4, soil 3>2>1 with
inorganic soil fertility improvement
• -ve effects under HD scenarios, +ve effects
under HW scenarios
Climate change adaptation
• Regaining crop life cycle reduces –ve effect of
CC on maize
• +ve effects RAP 4> RAP 5, DSSAT> APSIM
(stronger response to interactions between T,
H2O and N)
• +ve effects better soil> poor soil
Legumes
Climate change impacts
Legumes are slightly sensitive to climate change
under APSIM, stable under DSSAT
• -ve effects RAP 5 > RAP4, across soil types
• -ve effects under HD scenarios, +ve effects
under HW scenarios
Climate change adaptation
• Drought tolerance reduces –ve impacts of CC on
groundnuts
• +ve effects RAP 4> RAP 5, DSSAT > APSIM
(stronger response to CO2 and available water)
Soil type Soil type
poor average better poor average better poor average better poor average better
9. Impacts on
farm milk production
APSIM DSSAT
1 2 3 1 2 3
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
Averageannualmilkproduction(kgfarm−1)
labels
RAP4_Base
RAP5_Base
RAP4_HD
RAP4_HW
RAP5_HD
RAP5_HW
RAP4_HD_AP
RAP4_HW_AP
RAP5_HD_AP
RAP5_HW_AP
Extremely
poor
Poor Non
poor
Extremely
poor
Poor Non
poor
Climate change impacts
• Similar -ve effects under both RAPS and
crop model inputs
• -ve effects under HD scenarios, +ve effects
under HW scenarios
• Non-poor hit hard and more at risk
• With supplementary feed concentrates –
cattle are less dependent on on-farm feed
production.
Climate change adaptation
• Limited effects of crop improvement
10. Economic impacts of climate change adaptation (HD, HP, DSSAT)
Where productivity is currently extremely low, e.g.
Nkayi district, investments in sustainability pathways
(technologies, institutions, policies) can reduce
vulnerability and half poverty by 2050
Lower poverty, and greater impact of adaptation under
RAP 4, especially for the extremely poor – gender,
food security, nutrition
0
20
40
60
80
100
2015 2025 2035 2045 2055
Povetyrate(%ofpeoplelivingfrom
lessthan1.25USDperday)
current If we continue business as usual
if we invest in fast economicgrowth if we invest in sustainable development
Farm types Vulnerability
(%)
Poverty
without
adaptation
(%)
Poverty
with
adaptation
(%)
%
change in
poverty
rate
Extremely poor 26 53 47 -12
Poor 46 25 21 -16
Non poor 38 15 12 -17
Aggregate 37 35 31 -13
Extremely poor 49 84 82 -2
Poor 60 33 29 -13
Non poor 64 22 18 -16
Aggregate 58 53 50 -6
RAP
4
RAP
5
Climate change impacts
• Vulnerability RAP 5 > RAP 4
• Extremely poor less
vulnerable, for both RAPs
• Vulnerability of those with
cattle due to feed gaps
Climate change adaptation
• Lower poverty rate and
stronger impact of climate
change adaptation under
RAP 4, especially for the
extremely poor
11. Discussion: scenarios informing future oriented
technologies, institutions, policies
Challenge: Prepare enabling environment for scaling climate change
adaptation, under uncertain futures
Approaches and solutions – clearly acknowledged by decision makers
• Scenarios as projections for defining desirable trajectories, research
priorities and investment options, prepare future conditions for farming
• Having improved farm management today, adaptation to climate
change becomes easier
• Sustainability pathways to reduce poverty and mitigate destitution,
strengthening the link between women, food security and nutrition
Possible development outcomes – learning on guidance and influence
• Science to fasten decision processes (technical + political) along
desired trajectories (credibility, legitimacy, confidence, ownership)
• Out of the box testing of transformative interventions, about future
worlds that matter, for diverse farming systems
• Broader look at food systems, incl. gender, climate change,
extreme events, conflict prevention
• Bridge communication science and stakeholders, not only on
passing information, but analyses and implementation
Scale
of impact
Intensity
of impact Farming communities
Private sector
Support services
Enablers