climate-smart villages
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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
