RBM for climate change adaptation and mitigation

Bruce Campbell, Phil Thornton, Ana María Loboguerrero

Outline

• Background (Climate change targets, CCAFS)

• Global and regional impact pathways and targets

• Regional coherence

• Planning and reporting system

• Managing for results

• Lessons learnt

• Q & A

Climate change targets

• UNFCCC “measurable, reportable and verifiable” (MRV) – GHGs and

adaptation actions

• Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture Protect 500 million farmers from climate change

• SDG No 13 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies, and planning

• Building farmer resilience

• Emissions reductions

FS2. Climate information

services and climate-

informed safety nets

FS3. Low emissions

development

FS4. Policies and institutions

for climate-resilient food

systems

FS1. Climate smart

technologies, practices,

and portfolios

Regional Programs

• Key feature: fits into an impact pathway

• Large bodies of work (e.g. US$1.5 million)

• Any kind of funds; single or multiple Centers

Projects

Process adopted

• RBM trial on one Flagship/Theme (2013-2014)

• Iterative planning (2014)

• Knowledge platform: Planning & Reporting system

• Define global impact pathways

• Define regional impact pathways

• Calls for ideas

• Regional planning meetings: targets, IPs

Intermediate Development Outcomes

(IDOs)

2025 Flagship Outcomes

2025 Regional Outcomes

2019 Flagship Outcomes

2019 Regional Outcomes

Cluster of

Activities

Cluster of

Activities

Cluster of

Activities

Project

Project

Project

Project

Project

Project

Project

Project

4 +5

25 national and subnational major development

initiatives and public institutions prioritize and inform

project implementation of equitable best bet CSA

options using CCAFS science and decision support tools

2 +3

15 public-private actors at national and subnational

levels are using incentive mechanisms and new

business models/ markets that explicitly promote

equitable climate smart approaches along the value

chain, using CCAFS science

30 mio. farmers, at

least 12 mio. of

whom are women,

with strengthened

adaptive capacity and

food security as a

result of programmatic

CSA investment.

Targets, e.g. Flagship 1: CSA practices

Regional targets

Project targets

Regional targets

Project targets

Regional targets

Policies and

INSTITUTIONS

Low

EMISSIONS Agriculture

Climate

INFORMATION Services and Safety Nets

Climate-Smart

AGRICULTURE

VISION: Agricultural sector in LAM manages climate to its advantage, understands and reacts

knowledgeably to climate variability and challenges using tailored climate information, and implements

sustainable and climate adapted practices to reduce food insecurity. Policy makers and planners are truly

using climate information and tools to design and implement plans and strategies that combine and

consider the trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation towards a low emissions agricultural

development.

CCAFS LAM Impact Pathway

Farmers, private sector and

governments choose,

invest and promote CSA

context-specific practices

through demand-driven and

strengthened extension

services rescuing traditional

knowledge to support

scaling up and out

processes. Governments

develop equitable local

agricultural development

plans that prioritize

investments focusing on

climate variability

challenges.

Meteorological Services,

Ministries of Agriculture,

generate and

communicate tailored

climate information for

decision-makers at national

and local level to help

smallholder farmers to

reduce climate risks.

Research institutions,

public and private Sector

develop demand-driven

insurance options based on

agro-climate information,

seed markets, and CSA

context-specific options.

Governments formulate

and implement NAMAS

and LEDS based on

improved data on

smallholder agricultural

GHG emissions generated

by research organizations

and implement equitable

policies to avoid

deforestation from

commodity agriculture,

promote restoration to

increase carbon

sequestration and reduce

GHG emissions from

livestock and commodities.

National governments

design and enact

equitable food systems

policies and strategies

taking adaptation into

consideration to support

national and regional policy

and global climate change

negotiations and

supported by private

institutions in their

implementation at national

and local level.

Climate-Smart

AGRICULTURE

Climate

INFORMATION Services and Safety Nets

Low

EMISSIONS Agriculture

Policies and

INSTITUTIONS

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Portfolio in Latin America

AGROCLIMAS (CIAT)

Livestock Plus (CIAT)

Relevant climate change Information meets Decision-Making to influence Policy and

Institutions for Climate Resilient Food Systems

Evaluation Platform in Latin America CSVs (Bioversity)

Coffee Landscapes (Bioversity)

CSMS (CIAT)

Citizen Science (FP1, Bioversity)

Value Chains (CIAT)

Extension Services in Latin America

CSA Prioritization Framework

Power Mapping in Central America

Engagement with MoA and Regional Bodies

Agroclimatic Network for Central America

Index Insurance in Central America (IRI)

Interdisciplinary research to improve information for decision making. (IRI)

LEDS (IFPRI)

Cattle in Brazil (CIFOR)

CCAC Agriculture Initiative on Paddy Rice Capacity

Sustainable cattle certification in Brazil

Capacity building in conducting GHG

measurements in LAM

Monographs for Latin America (IFPRI)

Socioeconomic Scenarios

Bioversity Global Policy Work

Support to Ministry of Agriculture of Colombia and CIAT Agreement

Climate-Smart Villages in Trifinio (Guatemala, Honduras, Tuma-La Dalia (Nicaragua), Cauca (Colombia)

Addressing Gender in Latin America

Climate-Smart

AGRICULTURE Climate

INFORMATION Services and Safety Nets

Low

EMISSIONS Agriculture

Policies and

INSTITUTIONS

Colombia’s own CCAFS

Improved

crop varieties

Agroclimatic

forecasts

Policies

& NAMAs

Adaptation Plan for

the Agricultural Sector

Farmers

Government Private

sector

Producers’

associations

Socioeconomic

Scenarios

Climate-Site-

Specific

Management

(CSMS)

Climate-Smart

Villages

GHG

measurements

methods for

smallholders

Scaling up

activities

P&R process

Project Leaders Managers

Annual planning

Generate info

needed for

POWB

Annual reporting

against:

• outcomes

• targets

• deliverables

Generate reports

on topics needed

for annual reporting

M&E RBM

Managing for results

• Each Project has to:

Collect data on the indicators

Detail achievements in terms of its contributions to the steps in the impact pathway

Produce case studies on outcomes achieved

• Annual achievements of Projects, Regions, Flagships can be assessed

• Bonus allocation for excellent performances

Lessons learnt

• Time and resources needed

• New capacities needed

• Make systems “good enough”, practical, not the

best they could be

• RBM trial projects are doing things differently

Summary

• Major shift for CCAFS – new portfolio

• Interlinked impact pathways, from project to global levels

• Interlinked targets and milestones along impact pathways

• Platform for planning, reporting and monitoring

• Continual learning for RBM, adaptive managment: learning briefs, wiki, M&E resources

Q & A