This document discusses climate smart agriculture as the way forward for food security in a changing climate. It outlines the triple challenge of producing more and better quality food for more people while adapting to and mitigating climate change. It provides examples of practices for building resilient food systems like rainwater harvesting, conservation agriculture, nutrient management, agroforestry, reducing food losses, and managing risks. The document emphasizes the need to account for agriculture in climate actions and financial mechanisms, given agriculture's importance and the specific needs of smallholder farmers. It lists several FAO submissions to the UNFCCC on these topics and calls for linking food security and climate change issues in international forums like the Committee on World Food Security.

1. Climate Smart Agriculture :
way forward for Food Security in a
changing climate
Alexandre Meybeck
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Vincent Gitz
FAO
Side event to UNFCCC Bonn June 10th 2011

2. A triple Challenge
• More food, in quantity, quality and
diversity, everywhere for everyone
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• Ad t to Climate Change
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• Contribute to mitigate Climate
Change

3. Two ways to adapt
• Getting more resilient to variability
• Getting prepared to long term
changes
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4. Two ways to mitigate
• Reduce emissions per kg of output
(decorrelate production growth and
emissions growth)
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• Enhance agricultural soil carbons
sinks

5. Efficiency
Efficient & resilient
Food Systems
Resilience

6. Rain water harvesting
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7. Nutrient management
Bangladesh

8. Conservation Agriculture
Ghana

9. Genetic resources
Lima: International Potato Center

10. Relationship between greenhouse gas
emissions and output per cow
12.00 Pastoral
GHG systems
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kg CO2-eq. per kg FPCM
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k
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4.00
Intensive systems
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Output per cow, kg FPCM per year

11. Biodigestors
Cambodia
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12. Resilience in livestock systems

13. Crop-
Crop-Livestock Systems
Learning from Shinyanga,
Tanzania: Restoring 500,000
ha of degraded grasslands
to higher productivity by adapting traditional
Ngitili agro-pastoral management

14. Grassland & rangeland management
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Tunisia

15. Agroforestry

16. Reduce food losses
Metallic silos in
Afghanistan

17. Manage risks
• monitoring
• vulnerability assessment
• identification of (ex-ante) damage
reduction measures
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• early action
• Reparation of losses to productive
assets

18. Enabling farmers to change
Change of
practice

19. Main points
• Food Security
• Importance of adaptation of
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agriculture
• Necessary increase of production to
be taken into account in NAMAs
• NAMAs to include carbon sinks (Ag)
• Specificity of agriculture, small
holders,
holders to be taken into account in
financial mechanism

20. FAO’s submissions
• Towards a Work program on Agriculture, a submission to the AWG-LCA by the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(submitted 14 May 2010)
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2010/smsn/igo/081.pdf
• A submission to UNFCCC Secretariat on approaches to address losses and damages
in agriculture, forestry and fisheries in answer to the invitation of article 28 of
Decision FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/L 7 (submitted 21 February 2011)
FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/L.7
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2011/smsn/igo/105.pdf
• A submission to UNFCCC Secretariat on NAMAs in answer to the invitation of article
82 of Decision FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/L.7 (submitted 21 February 2011)
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2011/smsn/igo/096.pdf
• A submission to UNFCCC Secretariat on non market based mechanisms to enhance
mitigation actions (submitted 21 February 2011)
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2011/smsn/igo/097.pdf
• Climate Change and Food Security in the Context of the Cancun Agreements
(submitted 23 March 2011)
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2011/smsn/igo/121.pdf

21. Link Food Security & Climate Change
in international Fora
• CFS has requested a study to HLPE
on Food Security & Climate Change
• Climate negotiations have to include
Food Security concerns