cafe adapt: planning and investing in climate resilient coffee landscapes

CafeAdapt: planning and investing in climate resilient coffee landscapes5th of December 2015, ParisMaarten van Zonneveld

Transformation of coffee systems and coffee farmer livelihoods under climate change

Adoption of practices

1. How are farmers´ response capacities connected to adaptation to climate change?

2. How can farmers´ implementation of agroecological practices be connected to investment plans?

Agroecological practices: investment and adoption

Connecting farmer response capacity, agroecological practices and productivity

Farmers´ well-being & response capacity

Agroecological practices Productivity

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Climate sensitivity of production system

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Investment plans

Investment to support implementation

Pilot areas

Connecting farmer response capacity and agroecological practices

Important role of cooperatives in supporting smallholders• Technical assistance• Facilitating access to credits (provided by the cooperatives)• Incentives for women and youth’s involvement in coffee

production (both cooperatives)• Encouragement to diversify coffee production landscapes to

decrease farmers’ vulnerability (for example, honey production in PRODECOOP)

• Projects aiming to improve food security and sovereignty (example PRODECOOP)

Enabling environment at landscape level

Several institutional challenges for cooperatives• Lack of funding and time to work on people’s mentality• Constant changes in government and laws • High bureaucracy of processes involved (e.g. exportation)• Numerous taxes (Example: “Tax Equity Law in Nicaragua”)• Overlapping of projects funded by external agents (most of the

cases these projects are not based on the cooperatives’ institutional plans)

Enabling environment at landscape level

Institutional support• Laws related to sustainable coffee production exist but

they are not effectively implemented • Public funding schemes fail to reach small farmers. • Public coffee institutions are insufficiently financed and

gradually lose power • Lack of coordination among institutions working on coffee

production and its adaptation to climate change• Unclear land tenure rights

Composting facility

Investment plan PASCAFEN for bio-fertilizers

• Time of investment recovery after five years • Internal rate of return of 15-21% in five years dependent on loan

conditions

Questions • What are effective mechanisms for private sector to support

coffee farmers coping with climate change?

• What type of institutional support is required for an enabling environment to build climate-resilient coffee landscapes?

• What is the role of carbon credits in sustaining investment plans?

Thank you

Maarten van Zonneveldm.vanzonneveld@cgiar.org