Toward a more inclusive interpretation of climate smart agriculture
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Toward a more inclusive interpretation of climate smart agriculture
- 1. Toward a More Inclusive Interpretation of Climate-smart Agriculture Alex De Pinto Senior Research Fellow Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
- 2. ▪Answer the needs of today ▪Support long-term policies that can deal with the contingencies of changing climate regimes ▪Address these needs in a potentially very different environment Agricultural development must meet multiple challenges
- 3. Climate-smart Agriculture CSA is an umbrella term (FAO, 2009) that includes many approaches. Built upon geographically-specific solutions aiming at making the agricultural sector better suited to handle the challenges of a new climate.
- 4. Climate-smart Agriculture Confusion still reigns: what is CSA? What is the difference between CSA and CA, ISFM, SLM? Most often, people reduce CSA to a viable set of practices
- 5. CSA provides a framework for decision-making ranging from the farm to the policy level. It offers a set of guiding principles to identify technologies, management practices and tools, and policies that enable farmers to meet the challenges of producing under changing climate regimes by concurrently considering the three pillars and their trade-offs Climate-smart Agriculture
- 6. Most evidence points to the need to “think bigger” than field-level activities •The DRC: agriculture poses a problem insofar as it can cause deforestation while, comparatively, little damage is caused by its emissions (Li et al 2015). •These findings are confirmed by research in other areas and for various crops (Gockowski and Sonwa 2011; Burney et al. 2010).
- 7. Colombia: policies that act on the interface pastureland/livestock and forests are key to achieving economic growth in the next 20 years (average ~ $50 Million per year) and GHG emissions reduction (average 90 Million tons CO2e per year). Source: De Pinto et al. 2016. Most evidence points to the need to “think bigger” than field-level activities
- 8. Best possible outcome considering maize, wheat, and rice (~41% of global harvested area and ~64% of GHG emission from crop production) ~ 10% of 1 Gt CO2e yr-1 goal Climate-smart Agriculture and crop production Source: De Pinto et al. In Progress
- 9. • Reinforces the importance of a multi-objective approach in agricultural policies and ag. development. • It can initiate dialogs that rarely happen across ministries, policy makers and decision makers. • Favors a long-term perspective. • However, the transition to CSA is afflicted by barriers we all know too well: risk, uncertainty, imperfect markets, etc. CSA: What can it offer?
- 10. Must be enriched with system-thinking (interactions of agricultural land with carbon-rich environments e.g. forests and mangroves), and include agroforestry, crop- livestock and silvopastoral systems. Think through the value chain. Must recognize the multiple pathways through which nutrition, health, gender equality influence the set of available climate change responses and other development outcomes. To meet its goals CSA must be inclusive
- 12. Thank you a.depinto@cgiar.org ▪Ms. Prapti Bhandary - Research Analyst ▪Ms. Shahnila Dunston - Research Analyst ▪Mr. Nicola Cenacchi - Research Analyst ▪Dr. Ho-Young Kwon - Research Fellow ▪Dr. Ricky Robertson – Research Fellow ▪Dr. Jawoo Koo – Senior Research Fellow