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Outline
1. Concept: What is climate-smart agriculture?
2. Practice: Can we implement climate-smart
agriculture at scale, globally and in Africa?
3. Opportunities: How can Africa lead the
science and practice of climate-smart
agriculture?
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http://www.climatesmartagriculture.org
FAO (2010). CSA is âagriculture that
sustainably increases
productivity, resilience
(adaptation), reduces/removes
GHGs (mitigation), and enhances
achievement of national food
security and development goals.â
Guidance on CSA principles
and practices
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Tanzania
Communities managing
4.12 million ha of forest
Niger
200 million trees
2.5 millionpeople
India
Agromet Advisory Services
reach over 2.5 million
farmers
Vietnam
Rice intensification by
1 million farmers
Ethiopia
8 million people in productive safety nets, inc. building natural assets
Brazil:
Reduce GHGs by
> 160 million
tons CO2e annually
Morocco:
63.5 million tons
CO2e saved over 20 years
India
Weather-based crop
Insurance > 9 million
Indian farmers
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Upfront costs often substantial
Brazil: US$ 250 million over two years
Morocco: over US$ 1 billion per annum
Vietnam: US$ 500 million in 2011
Strong government
support is crucial
ď˛ Policy support, e.g. secure land and resource tenure
ď˛ Strategies for scaling-up
ď˛ Institutional frameworks
ď˛ Funding
CAADP e.g. Maputo
commitments, African Regional
Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction
UNFCC e.g. Green Climate
Fund, Least Developed Countries
Fund, Adaptation Fund
Multi-lateral e.g. IFAD Adaptation for
Smallholder Agriculture Program, G8 Global
Agriculture & Food Security Program
Some private finance e.g. supply chain
security, carbon markets, corporate
social responsibility
11. Opportunities: How can Africa lead the
science and practice of climate-smart
agriculture?
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ď˛ Regional Climate Outlook
Forums
ď˛ Major programs like
CORDEX, AMMA, WASCAL
ď˛ Met services & researchers
working at farmer level
1. Leadership in institutional support
e.g. climate information services
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⢠Finance
⢠Land zoning
⢠Governance
⢠Markets
2. Coordinate agriculture & forestry
to incentivise sustainable landscapes
e.g. COMIFAC
(Commission des
FĂ´rets dâAfrique
Centrale)
Africa Soil Atlas 2013
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3. Build innovation platforms
e.g. Agriculture & climate change
platforms initiated by CORAF/WECARD
ď˛ National think-tank teams for mainstreaming adaptation to climate
change in agricultural policies and strategies through knowledge
sharing, information exchange and dissemination, and
engagement of all stakeholders.
Four countries
⢠Burkina Faso
⢠Mali
⢠Niger
⢠Senegal
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4. Get African science into policy
e.g. Partnership of CCAFS with
COMESA, EAC, SADC & Africa Climate
Policy Centre
Workshops and
aggregation of
scientific evidence
as basis for joint
submissions on
agriculture to the
UNFCCC
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5. Bring policy and science
together to support
farmer-led innovations and options
So, we have to respond to three grand challenges.A key focus of CCAFS is understanding the synergies and trade-offs amongst the three outcomes that we need, working from plot to global levelsIn many cases we are looking for technologies that satisfy all three objectives.In other cases we may take a landscape approach, whereby intensified systems in one part of the landscape focus on food security and adaptation, while in another part of the landscape forests and grasslands are conserved.And in other situations we may only focus on food security and adaptation (e.g. in countries where the GHG emissions are exceptionally low). But even here I think we can do development better by attention to, e.g. nutrient use efficiency, that can reduce costs to farmers and reduce GHGs.