CCAFS (CRP7) in South Asia: Partnerships for Impact

Pramod AggarwalCGIAR Research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

International Water Management Institute, New Delhi

CCAFS: Impact pathway in South Asia

1. CCAFS Partnerships for Impact in South Asia

• Outcome: Local and national institutions make informed decisions to support food security, enhancement of climate-resilient agriculture, and integration of climate sensitive development pathways into and planning of development interventions

• Outputs:– Tools to support investment decisions and prioritization of

adaptation/mitigation options– Regionally differentiated impact assessment of climate change – Germplasm threatened by climate change conserved– Toolkit for weather forecast linked pre-harvest crop yield forecasts– Enhanced capacity in the region

• Partnership:– Governments: Ministries of Agriculture– NARS: ICAR-NICRA, NPGR, NARC, Nepal Gene Bank– Met Agencies: IMD, DHM– NGOs: CEGIS, NDRI– CGIAR: IFPRI, CIMMYT, IRRI, ICRISAT, CIAT, Bioversity– International partners: IRI, Colombia

• Outcome: Climate information (and other necessary information) providing significant benefits to farmers in the face of climate variability

• Outputs:– Products for index- based insurance for climate risk management – Weather-forecasts and value-added agro-advisories– Climate literacy of farmers enhanced through cell-phone based awareness

campaigns– Rural women accessing and using agricultural and climate-related services and

information

• Partnership:– Industry: Agricultural Insurance Company of India; IFFKO Kisan Sanchar Limited– Met agencies: IMD, India, DHM, Nepal– NARS: ICAR, NARC– NGOS: NDRI, CARE, IFFKO Foundation; Women Co-operatives

2. CCAFS Partnerships for Impact in South Asia

• Outcome: Farmers adopting practices that enhance capacity to respond to climate change (climate resilient practices, risk management, mitigation and adaptive capacities)

• Outputs: – ‘Climate smart villages’ established at several sites– Policy to link ‘climate smart village’ approach with on-going government

programs for scaling out– Farmer participatory videos for scaling out– Capacity of farmers, and local and national institutions enhanced

• Partnership:– Farmer cooperatives – Local government: Panchayats, block, district and state governments– NARS: ICAR, NARC, SAUs– Industry: IFFKO-TOKIO (Insurance), IKSL (ICT), input suppliers– CGIAR centers: IFPRI, CIMMYT, IWMI, Bioversity, WorldFish, CIP

3. CCAFS Partnerships for Impact in South Asia

• Outcome: Rural women empowered to accessing and using agricultural and climate-related services

• Outputs: – Training of trainers modules– Training modules for rural women developed and field tested– Pilots launched at several sites to demonstrate women-farmer led climate

risk management- seeds for needs, ICT based weather knowledge – Capacity of local governments and cooperatives enhanced

• Partnership:– Women cooperatives – Local government: Panchayats, block, district and state governments– NARS: ICAR, NARC– NGOs: Alternative Futures and others– CGIAR centers: CIMMYT, IWMI, Bioversity, WorldFish

4. CCAFS Partnerships for Impact in South Asia

ICAR/NICRA-CCAFS partnership

Alok SikkaDeputy Director General

Indian Council of Agricultural Research

National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) - ICAR

• One of the largest network projects of ICAR launched in 2011• All major ICAR Institutes as partners with CRIDA as the lead institute• The project has four components Strategic research Technology demonstration Sponsored and competitive grants Capacity building

• State of the art research infrastructure at major ICAR Institutes: phenotyping platforms, FATE, CTGC, TGT, walk in CO2 chambers, flux towers, satellite stations, animal calorie meters, fishing vessel with climate monitoring facilities.

Achievements• Identified more than 100 promising germplasm lines of wheat, rice and

pulses against multiple abiotic stresses• Established relationship between climate variables and spawning in major

marine fish species• Established long term experiments across the country for quantifying the

impact of CA on GHG emissions• Initiated technology demonstrations in 100 vulnerable districts for farm

level evaluation of best bet practices for coping with climate variability covering nearly 1.00 lakh farmers.

• Established horizontal linkages with state development departments for upscaling the successful models

• Organized more than 2000 climate awareness programs for farmers and other stakeholders across the country

NICRA/ICAR-CCAFS partnership

Key activities• Joint development of DSS for climate change impact

assessment, climatic risk management, pre-harvest crop yield forecasting, and for agricultural adaptation strategies.

• Scaling out climate smart villages- linking with on-going government development programs.

• Database system for monitoring adaptation and mitigation benefits - implications for developing national strategy on climate change and agriculture.

• Capacity strengthening in climate change scenarios, spatial modelling, and prioritization methodology for adaptation/mitigation benefits.

AIC-CCAFS partnership on crop insurance for climate risk management

Kolli RaoAgricultural Insurance Company of

India

Agriculture Insurance Company of India

Created at the behest of the Government and took over crop insurance operation w.e.f. 1st April 2003

Stakeholders: GIC (35%), NABARD (30%) and NIA, NIC, OIC & UIIC (8.75% each)

Design appropriate and farmer friendly crop insurance products Net-worth as on 31st Mar 2012- INR 15.75 billion

2-Tier structure of Corporate Office and Regional Offices 17 Regional Offices as Underwriting Centres 240 dedicated technically qualified manpower AICNET (ANNAPOORNA) for seamless IT integration

Administering the World’s largest index based crop insurance with over 25 M farmers insured annually

Multiple-Agency Platform Innovations & Technologies

AIC-CCAFS partnership on index insurance

Improve the Value of Index insurance by minimizing Product Basis Risk

Risk characterization for key crops at Agro-Climatic Zone level Rainfall triggers for rice, cotton, soybean, pearl millet, and

corn Heat (high temperature) triggers for wheat, mustard and

chickpea Product testing during Kharif 2013

AIC-CCAFS partnership: Community Level Indemnity based Crop Insurance

Objective: Indemnity based crop insurance with minimal administrative cost and least moral hazard

Pilots being launched in Tamilnadu and Bihar Named peril insurance at community level as a standalone

product Named peril insurance at community level as top-up with rainfall

based index insurance Double Trigger Index insurance Named peril insurance standalone product at community level

with ‘loyalty bonus’ GPS enabled Handheld Devices for enrolment and loss

assessment Value-added services

Climate smart villages in Karnal (Haryana): Farmers perspective

Society for Conservation of Natural Resources and Empowering Rural Youth, Karnal (Haryana)

Vikas Chaudhary

Farmer

Why farmers cooperatives and Youth?

• We have several issues with traditional farming technologies as well as the way we practice them

o Water, labour shortages, high production costso Soil health and environmental pollutiono Profit marginso Youth are moving away from farming

• Blanket, large area recommendations are really not very helpful- example of 2012-13 (both kharif and rabi seasons)

• Unidirectional process of technology development and flow will not be very useful; active participation of all stakeholders is needed

• Local adaptation of technologies with active participation of farmers

• Farmer is the best common neutral platform• Need new way of farming for bringing youth back to farming• We have excellent experience on this with the ‘climate smart

village’ approach of CCAFS

ICAR Institut

es(Researc

h)

CCSHAU

(Students)

State Deptt of

Agri(Scaling-

out)

KVKs(Adaptatio

n)

Media (awarene

ss)

CCAFS/ CIMMYT-

Team(Networki

ng, Capacity)

Private Sector(Input-output,

services)

New Farmer

societies (CSA)

(Innovation &

Adaptation)

Cooperative Society(Climate smart participatory

innovation platform-Service windows,

stakeholder meets, travelling seminars,

field days)

CSA Service

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CSA adopte

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CSA module

s farmers

CSA adopte

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CSA module

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CSA adopte

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Our Climate Smart Innovation Platform

Haryana Kisan Ayog(Policy

support)

Technologies we are promoting through custom services, in-field consultations and

advisory • Laser land levelling• Zero tillage• Residue management (Happy

seeder)• Direct seeded rice• Raised bed planting• Diversification of rice with maize• Intensification with short duration

moong• Nutrient Expert Decision system for

maize and wheat, Small GreenSeeker)

• Improved varieties• ICT based dissemination of agro-

advisories • Index based insurance (in process)

In-Field Stakeholder Consultation in CCAFS (HKA, ICAR, SDA, CIMMYT, Private sector, Farmers etc)

Farmer Cooperatives and youth are playing key role

Recognitions

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