1. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
Carbon Footprinting
on Farm Level
Trade Standards Practitioners Network (TSPN) Conference
Bern, Switzerland – 17 November 2010
Henk van Rikxoort

2. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
Agenda
 The Cool Farm Tool
 Project behind the tool
 How does this tool work?
 A carbon footprint step by step
 Results Baragwi Co-op Kenya
 Carbon footprint Co-op
 Meaning and use of the results

3. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
Within the Sangana
PPP a coffee specific The Cool Farm Tool
CFT is developed
The Cool Farm Tool is….
 ...part of the Global Agriculture Climate Assessment
(GACA) of Unilever and Sustainable Food Lab
 …a universally-applicable tool developed by Unilever,
Sustainable Food Lab and the Univ. of Aberdeen
... a tool for gathering and calculating emission and
sequestration data on farm level
… currently being sponsored by 17 actors to improve its
usability for different crops and geographies

4. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
The Cool Farm Tool (cont.)

5. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
The Cool Farm Tool (cont.)
The Cool Farm Tool calculates emissions for:
 Crop Management  Primary processing
 Field Energy Use  Livestock
 Sequestration  Transport
…and presents results in tables and graphs:

6. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
A carbon footprint step by step
1. Development of process and emission maps
2. Defining the boundaries and cut-off level
3. Collecting the emission data:
 Coffee production: Yield, Land use and tillage changes,
Fertilisation and agrochemical use, soil type, texture, organic
carbon content, PH and drainage, Shade cropping and agro-
forestry density, tree species and DBH.
 (Wet) processing : Machinery emissions, methane emissions,
waste water use, handling of pulp, and parchment layers
 Transport: Petrol / diesel use
4. Calculating the carbon footprint
5. Use the results (publication, reduction strategies)

7. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
PRE-RESULTS: This is based on
first data collection and does
not reflect all emissions that
need to be taken into account

8. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
PRE-RESULTS: This is based on
first data collection and does
not reflect all emissions that
need to be taken into account

9. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
Meaning of the results
 Most promising scenarios within this farming system to
reduce net emissions are:
• Reduction on fertilizer use by adopting composting
methodologies
• Reduction on pesticide use by taking on Integrated Pest
Management (IPM) technologies
• Exploiting the opportunity of agriculture to store carbon
in soils and biomass optimally by using reduced
tillage, agro-forestry and avoiding land-use change

10. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
The Coffee CFT + the Climate Module
The Coffee CFT will…
 …indicate emission hot spots and sequestration data
which allows for defining reduction strategies
 …indicate changes over time in emissions and
sequestered GHG stocks
 …contain a training for producers to show them how to
gather the necessary data for the Coffee Cool Farm Tool
…prepare producers to measure emissions up to dry-
milling. This enables the industry to access data for carbon
footprinting

11. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Kenyan Coffee Sector
Contacts
Kerstin Linne Henk van Rikxoort
Project Manager Former Sangana PPP intern
Student Tropical Agriculture
Eschborn Wageningen
Germany The Netherlands
P +49.6196.79 3004 P +31618187108
M kerstin.linne@gtz.de M henk.vanrikxoort@wur.nl