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Key Points Emerging from the Workshop

NK Tyagi, Former Member of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) M Radeny, ILRI/CCAFS Arun KC, IWMI/CCAFS

Institutions and policies for scaling-out climate smart agriculture, Hotel Hilton, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2-3 December 2013

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Message 1 Institutions and Policies can be

Game Changer

• Climate change adaptation in agriculture , unlike other

sectors, is site specific and scaling out CSA is a real

challenge

• Adaptation and mitigation of climate change impacts can

be mediated through setting in order the policies and

institutions in agriculture sector on priority

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• Some judicious policies like separation of power feeder from domestic rural electricity supply lines in Gujarat in India and business model currently being implemented in Ghana as a Private Public Partnership for Fecal Sludge Valorization, that made the difference

• Implementation of technological and other innovations requires supporting policies and institutions to become part of development plan

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• Agriculture is not limited to only crops, but also includes forestry, animals, and fishery

• Ensuring food and nutrition security under climate change or even otherwise will require that CSA cover the entire spectrum of agriculture

Message 2 Policies which favour adoption of farming

systems and not cropping system alone, need to put in place

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• Considerable experience on out-scaling of climate smart agriculture, as exhibited by large scale implementation of several CSA technologies (case studies)

• Land restored through farmer-managed natural regeneration in Niger, herbicide-tolerant crops in Canada, weather-based crop insurance in India, grain for green programme in China, rain water harvesting in Sahel are successful examples

Message 3 Learn from the available experience in network

countries and elsewhere and develop more such bright spots to convert CSA into a movement

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• Blending participatory approaches with quantitative analysis improves the decision making process

• Need to develop relevant information base for policy formulation and implementation engaging with all stakeholders at various levels

• Develop full package of program for policy reform

Message 4 Formulation of appropriate policy requires

engagement with all stakeholders

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• A number of tools have been developed to aid in policy planning

• Tools can help identify the best CSA options for targeted investment of limited funds

• No single tool would be applicable everywhere. It would require capacity building to decide what suits best in a given location at given time

Message 5 New tools are available and others

are being developed

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• SAARC countries are an example of how to overcome the climate change imposed constraints in region

• A similar model could adopted in other regions to increase the capacity of the regions to battle against adverse climate change impacts

Message 6 Initiation of regional cooperation for

climate risk management

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• Crop based as well as weather based indices can be practised on mass scale

• The correlation between insurance and CSA adoption needs to be empirically established

• Involvement of private sector partners can make it work better in the long run

Message 7 Insurance is a desirable intervention for promoting CSA, particularly in low income and highly vulnerable regions

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• Scaling out CSA requires delineation of potential investment opportunities, potential challenges and new research needed to attract private sector investment

• CSA can be successful if it is packaged as part of other national development strategies and policies

• Government support is crucial for successful scaling out of CSA • Requires a broader consensus among policy makers, researcher,

and private sectors

Message 8 Key issues for scaling out

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• The few successful interventions in CCAFS network and elsewhere can be used to explain the process involved in sound decision making

Message 9 Decision making for policies on overcoming climate

change impacts does not take place in vacuum

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A BIG MESSAGE There are problems for scaling out

CSA but there are solutions too