cafe adapt: planning and investing in climate resilient coffee landscapes
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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?
