Synthesis of key lessons and messages from Agriculture and Rural Development Day, held in Durban on 3 December 2011 in Durban, South Africa.

1. Lessons
on
best
prac-ce
for
climate
smart
agriculture
from
ARDD
3
Presented
by
James
Nyoro
Managing
Director,
Africa
Region,
Rockefeller
Founda6on

2. Today
at
ARDD
2011
1. The
Challenges
2. Who
is
most
at
risk?
3. What
climate
smart
agriculture
delivers:
• Resilience
• Food
Security
and
Incomes
• GHG
Reduc-on
4. How
to
make
the
investments
and
policy
changes
to
take
climate
smart
agriculture
to
scale
5. Respond
to
the
call
for
ac-on
-­‐
the
whiskey
boOle
on
the
table
Photo
credits:
Palmer/CIAT

3. The
Challenges
• Weather:
$7.5
billion
lost
to
extreme
events
in
2010
• Waste:
1.3
billion
tonnes
of
food
wasted
each
year
• Water:
884
million
people
lack
clean
water
• Land:
1.5
billion
depend
on
degrading
Millions
of
pwater
&ave
no
access
to
clean
eople
h
electricity
land
• Poverty:
1.4
billion
live
on
<$1.25/day
• Hunger:
1
billion
are
hungry
• Over
consump-on:
1
billion
obese
• Future:
How
to
feed
extra
1
billion
people
by
2025
• Climate
change:
Makes
this
all
harder
Over
20%
of
food
purchased
in
developed
countries
is
wasted
Photo
credits:
1.
Howle>/University
of
Leeds
–
2.
Anon

4. Who
is
most
at
risk?
Smallholders
and
Rural
communi-es
• Every
year
climate-­‐related
disasters
affect
>200
million
people
cos-ng
over
$70
billion
90%
of
economic
losses
in
Africa
are
from
droughts,
floods,
and
storms
• 87%
of
households
in
3
SA
countries
slide
in
and
out
of
hunger
when
exposed
to
shocks
Add
one
more
photo
to
match
• Shocks
(drought/disease)
bullets
increase
vulnerability
and
asset
ownership
at
household
level
Ethiopia
children
born
in
disaster
are
41%
more
likely
to
be
stunted
Photo
credits:
1.
Howle>/University
of
Leeds
–
2.
Scripture/World
food
Programme

5. What
is
climate
smart
agriculture
• Sustains
the
health
of
the
land
and
increases
produc-vity
• Does
not
pollute,
degrade
land
or
Farmer
in
Burkina
Faso
with
good
loss
of
forests
and
biodiversity
harvest
using
plan6ng
pits
• Delivers
food,
fibre,
fuel,
incomes,
nutri-on,
carbon
sequestra-on
and
reduces
GHG
emissions
Farmers
produce
what
we
need
Photo
credits:
1.
CGIAR
Challenge
Programme
on
Water
and
Food
2.
CIMMYT

6. Evidence
of
Success
in
CSA
• Niger
>5
million
ha
regenerated
500,000
tonnes
of
cereals
per
year,
beneficng
1.25
Add
three
photos
million
to
match
bullets
• Evergreen
agriculture
improves
yields
by
30-­‐150%
• 160,000
Zambian
farmers
are
using
Faidherbia
parklands
in
Niger
conserva-on
agriculture
• Burkina
Faso
farmers
are
using
water
harves-ng
to
restore
land
and
increase
yields
• Denmark
has
reduced
agriculture
emissions
by
54%
since
1990
and
increased
produc-on.
CA
has
doubled
Sinoya
Phiri's
yields
in
Zambia
Photo
credits:
1.
ICRAF
–
2.
Bafana/IPS

7. Is
science
enough?
• Integra-ng
local
and
scien-fic
knowledge
is
a
essen-al
for
weather
forecasts
to
be
used
by
farmers
• WMO
ac-vely
working
with
pastoralists
• In
Tanzania
under
a
project
95%
of
Farmers
using
par6cipatory
methods
to
integrate
local
and
scien6fic
knowledge
farmers
used
weather
informa-on
by
using
science
&
local
knowledge
• There
is
evidence
for
demand
–
in
a
survey
80%
of
Kenyan
farmers
said
they
would
pay
for
informa-on
Ethiopian
woman
reading
rain
gauge
Photos
credits:
1.
Rambaldi/CTA
–
2.
Oxfam
America

8. Partnerships
maOer
• Climate
smart
agriculture
produces
climate
smart
products
-­‐
labels
can
take
these
to
markets
Cafédirect
products
• Dryland
Seed
Ltd
is
using
seed
from
the
KARI
to
produce
and
distribute
drought
resistance
maize
Ø 1800
farmers
and
800
agro-­‐
dealers
trained
in
seed
mul-plica-on
Ruth
Musila
used
drought
resistant
maize
and
did
not
lose
her
crop
Photo
credits:
1.
Cafédirect
-­‐
2.
Dryland
Seed
Ltd/CIMMYT/KARI/AGRA

9. Markets
maOer
• Linking
carbon
financing
to
reduce
barriers
that
restrict
farmers’
opportuni-es
Danish
farmers
are
producing
20%
of
the
country’s
renewable
energy
• Partnerships
can
remove
obstacles
to
input/output
markets,
and
enhance
smallholder
investment
Markets
and
crucial
to
the
lives
of
women
in
Tanzania
Photos:
and
Elverfeldt/Zagst/FAO

10. Reducing
risks
• $1
invested
in
insurance-­‐for-­‐
work
results
in
at
least
three
-mes
the
value
in
Ethiopia
• This
has
led
to
uptake
from
200
When
drought
hits
safety
nets
help
build
to
13,000
HH
in
three
years
and
the
resilience
of
communi6es
has
paid
out
to
1,800
HH
• Index
based
insurance
to
80,000
smallholder
farmers
in
Mali
and
Burkina
Faso
Armyworms
are
a
major
pest
and
risk
to
farmers
–
insurance
can
reduce
risk
Photo
credits:
1.
World
Bank
–
2.
Mushobozi

11. Mi-ga-on
funding
–
the
icing
on
the
cake?
• Its
best
to
focus
funds
on
increasing
yields
rather
than
cash
payments
• 2500
farmers
adopted
in
Kenya
without
cash
incen-ves
Terraces
and
compos6ng
deliver
higher
• Extension
services
need
to
work!
yields
and
sequester
carbon
• Kenyan
farmers
have
seen
yields
increase
by
15-­‐30%,
and
>20,000
farmers
are
prac-cing
climate
smart
agriculture
Ø We
have
the
methods
to
do
this
verified
by
VCS
that
can
be
scaled
up
Kenyan
farmers
are
already
benefi6ng
• Carbon
financing
needs
to
be
augmented
from
mi6ga6on
funding
Photos:
World
Food
Programme

12. Gecng
Policy
and
Finance
Right
• Voice
of
the
communi-es
must
be
given
opportunity
to
influence
policy
• Water
policies
need
to
shiq
towards
small-­‐scale
technologies
• Policies
should
be
designed
for
the
smallholders,
risk
reduc-on
and
the
We
need
to
give
voice
to
people
like
landscape
Tekleweini
Girmay
and
her
family
• Climate
financing
needs
to
work
for
smallholders
and
be
combined
with
private
&
public
financing
• Involvement
of
commercial
banks
&
insurers
are
key
to
increase
finance
• Extension
services!
Climate
smart
means
landscape
smart
Photos:
Jansson/Oxfam
America
and
Howle>/University
of
Leeds

13. Our
Ac-ons
• Use
evidence
on
what
works
to:
Ø Help
change
agriculture
policies
Ø Develop
climate
smart
agriculture
programmes
Ø Invest
in
climate
smart
We
need
to
get
to
the
safe
space
agriculture
Ø Work
with
others
to
deliver
change
(e.g.
Forestry)
Ø Undertake
new
research
informed
by
CSA
smart
progress
indicators
Its
up
to
us
Photo
credits:
Palmer/CIAT

14. Regional
ac-on
• Example
of
Africa:
– AU/NEPAD
climate
smart
agriculture
under
CAADP
– RECs:
e.g.
COMESA
work
on
conserva-on
agriculture
Kenyan
farmers
using
Moneymaker
pump
for
more
sustainable
agriculture
– Tanzania
Kilimo
Kwanza
– Focussed
research
thro’
sub-­‐regional
research
orgs
Irriga6on

15. Global
ac-on
• Agriculture
and
food
security
central
to
UNFCCC
agreements
• Agriculture
at
the
heart
of
green
growth
and
Rio+20
• G20
to
increase
focus
on
food
security
and
climate
smart
agriculture
Mexico 2012
Photos:
ICRAF
and

16. Thank
you!