climate-smart villages

Climate-smart village : the CCAFS model to improve the adaptive

capacity of communities

Robert Zougmoré

Regional Program Leader, West Africa,

CCAFS

To 2090, taking 14 climate models

Four degree rise

Thornton et al. (2010) Proc. National Academy Science

>20% loss5-20% lossNo change5-20% gain>20% gain

Length of growing period (%)

Length of growing season is likely to decline..

Vermeulen et al. 2012 Annual Review of Environment and Resources (2012)

19-29% global GHGs

from food systems

How can smallholder farmers achieve food security under a

changing climate?

Agriculture must become “climate-smart”

• contributes to climate change adaptation by sustainably increasing productivity & resilience

• mitigates climate change by reducing greenhouse gases where possible

• and enhances the achievement of national food security and development goals

• Approach where CCAFS in partnership with rural communities and other stakeholders (NARES, NGOs, local authorities…), tests & validates in an integrated manner, several agricultural interventions

• Aims to boost farmers’ ability to adapt to climate change, manage risks and build resilience.

• At the same time, the hope is to improve livelihoods and incomes and, where possible, reduce greenhouse gas emissions to ensure solutions are sustainable

Concept of “climate-smart villages”

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Climate-smart villages

Index-based insurance

Climate information

services

Climate-smart

technologies

Local adaptation

plans

• Learning sites• Multiple partners• Capacity building

Scaling up• Policy• Private sector• Mainstream

successes via major initiatives

How it works?

Focus on integrated actions..

Linking knowledge to actionKey agricultural activities for managing risks

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What?Tree planting Shifts to small stockCrop/income diversificationClimate resilient crops

Who?NGO’s – CARE, World Neighbors, Vi Gov’t Extension; CBO’s – local groupsResearchers – KARI teams, CGIAR

StrategiesOutcome mappingLearning workshopsExchange visitsGender research trainingLocal TV, radio, cell info on CSA options

The research• KARI/CG research teams testing

and evaluating improved practices with farmers

• What isnt’s and approaches benefit women? Enhance equity?

• Changes in practices – what’s climate resilient?

• What changes are men vs. women making?

Local outcomesExt services/NGOs more demand-driven and delivering relevant information on climate-smart agriculture to farmers and local organisations

Example: western Kenya

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Baseline studies at site (HH, VBS and OBS) Participatory M&E planning for PAR work with local

partners at site Gender mainstreaming in activities Test of various technological options by farmers Iterative sharing of results and planning of next steps

Climate-smart village

Climate services

Weather insurance

Designed diversification

Mitigation/C seq

Community management of resources

Capacity building

Partnership- NARS- Extension- NGOs- Universities- Development

partners- Private sector- CBOs, Local leaders

Examples from Burkina, Mali and GhanaAt Community level:

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1. Improved technologies and practices for climate-smart agriculture

2. Methods, approaches and capacity for local adaptation planning

3. Innovative mechanisms for scaling up and out, including building local capacity to innovate.

4. By “scale up and out” it is intended that research will identify adoption pathways and actively involve the research end-users who are necessary to take research findings to scale.

What is expected ?

Where CCAFS works

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1. To identify and test pro-poor adaptation and mitigation technologies, practices, and policies for food systems, adaptive capacity and rural livelihoods

2. To provide diagnosis and analysis that will ensure cost effective investments, the inclusion of agriculture in climate change policies, and the inclusion of climate issues in agricultural policies, from the sub-national to the global level

Over-arching objectives

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