Presentation by Bruce Campbell, director of CCAFS, at the opening of the Agriculture Advantage event series on the sidelines of COP23.
More information about the event series: https://bit.ly/AgAdvantage
4. Transformation: Who is interested?
“The ultimate goal: to remake Africa in a decade”
“Transforming global agriculture and food systems”
”Data could inspire agricultural transformation in Africa”
“Research and dialogue for a climate-smart and just transformation”
”seeks to promote a paradigm shift to low-emission and climate-resilient
development”
“we can identify and scale solutions to transform sectors”
”Fostering inclusive rural transformation”
“Our overarching goals are …… agricultural transformation………”
5. Enabling policy
Two-way extension
enabled by big data
Climate advisory
services and early
warning
Strong farmer
organisations and
networks
Index-based
insurance
Climate-adapted
and low-emission
technologies
Lower emissions in
fields/ landscapes/
supply chains
Enabled business
activity; significant
PPPs
Driving
agricultural
transformation
6. For more information:
http://hdl.handle.net/10568/89192
1. Agroforestry
2. Aquaculture
3. Stress-tolerant varieties
4. Improving smallholder diary
5. Alternate wetting and drying
in rice
6. Micro-irrigation powered by
solar
7. Digital agriculture
8. Climate-informed advisories
9. Weather index-based
agricultural insurance
10. Scaling up financing
7. We are only at
AgTransform 1.0
What is AgTransfrom
2.0?
8. Alternate-Wetting-and-Drying in
rice covering millions of hectares
with 25% reduction in methane Pest and disease
monitoring
High throughput
genetic selection –
new stress tolerant
varieties…