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United Nations Climate Summit 2014 Agriculture Action Area One-Year Report

ContentsIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1. Adaptation and resilience of agricultural and food system livelihoods affected by changing climates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

North American Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance: Adaptive Management to Meet Food, Fibre, Energy and Environmental Goals . . . . 4

EverGreen Agriculture Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Scaling Up CSA for Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Small Farms, Big Impacts: Helping Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Mainstreaming Youth and Persons Living with Disabilities in Climate Smart Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Environmental Services Recognition Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

National Agricultural Resilience Framework (NARF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2. Adoption of practices that will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants from agriculture and food systems . . . 11

Climate and Clean Air Coalition Agriculture Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3. Increased sourcing of food produced using climate-smart practices . . . . 13

McDonald’s Commitment to Sustainable Beef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Walmart Climate Smart Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4. More effective, useful and accessible farmer-based research on options for climate-smart agriculture and food-systems practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

CGIAR Research and Development for Climate Smart Agriculture . . . . . . . 17

Empowering Farmer Organizations on Climate Change Through Better Foresight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Annex 1: Guidance Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Annex 2: Other Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

ContactMartin GallaGher

Senior Liaison Officer on Food Security Office of the UN Secretary-General

Telephone: 1 212 906 6692 Cell: 1 917 332 7296

E-mail: [email protected]

SanGraM rane Policy Support Officer on Food Security

Office of the UN Secretary-General Telephone : 1 212 906 6083

Cell: 1 929 231 3525 E-mail: [email protected]

1Introduction

IntroductionThe United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2015 saw leaders from 193 countries adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development . The 2030 Agenda seeks to end hunger and poverty within 15 years, with the strongest focus on the most marginalized, ensuring no one is left behind .

Almost 80 per cent of the world’s poor live in rural areas . For smallholder farmers already struggling to eke out a living from their plots of land, the effects of climate change are a daily reality . Changing climate and the resultant unpredictable weather patterns are challenging centuries-old farming techniques, leading to crop failures, reducing food quality and increasing vulnerability . Climate change is also undermining livelihoods, creating food insecurity and increasing malnutrition . Without global action, the effects of climate change on the lives of most vulnerable will get worse year by year . The poorest will suffer first—and suffer most—reversing the development gains made in recent decades .

It is clear that the ambitious but achievable vision of the 2030 Agenda cannot be realized unless addressing the challenges of climate changes is at the heart of both policymaking and action . As attention now shifts towards the 2015 Paris Climate Conference in December, the fundamental link between agriculture and food systems, climate and ending poverty and hunger is increasingly recognized .

The Climate Summit 2014, convened by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York in September 2014, acknowledged the significant relationship

between food security and climate change, and the need to scale up efforts to make agriculture more resilient . It offered a platform for catalysing substantial, scalable and replicable contributions to this end . During the Summit over 20 individual or collective initiatives were presented, launched or scaled up . As we approach the Paris Climate Summit, this report gives an overview of the progress the initiatives have made over the past year .

In preparation for COP21 (the twenty-first Conference of Parties), the Governments of France and Peru, along with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (EOSG) and the UNFCCC Secretariat initiated the Lima-Paris Action Agenda (LPAA), which seeks to enhance the implementation of climate action . The LPAA process is building on the momentum of the Climate Summit, and seeks to provide enhanced support to the initiatives launched at the Summit .

As part of its contribution to the LPAA, the EOSG has asked for progress reports from all initiatives that were launched as part of the Agriculture Action Area at the Climate Summit 2014 . Reports were received from 14 of the 21 initiatives launched at the Climate Summit . Each report has been summarized in an individual fiche . This progress report is a compendium of the feedback received from the sponsoring entities and informs on various aspects ranging from targets and current status to future expectations . The reports submitted by individual initiatives can be found at UN Climate Summit 2014: Agriculture Action Area One-Year Report .

http://www.un.org/en/zerohunger/pdfs/UN%20Climate%20Summit%202014%20Agriculture%20Action%20Area%20Initiatives%20One-Year%20Report.pdf

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1. Adaptation and resilience of agricultural and food system livelihoods affected by changing climates

3Adaptation and resilience of agricultural and food system livelihoods

Global Alliance for Climate Smart AgricultureOver 70 members have joined the Global Alliance since the Climate Summit, representing 8 stakeholder groups from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.

Dr. anDrew achuo [email protected]

[email protected]

Announcement The Global Alliance will focus initially on three action areas: knowledge, investment and building an enabling environment . Activities include:

• Voluntary adoption of national strategies for the practice of climate-smart agriculture within national strategies for agriculture, food security and nutrition;

• Development of systems that encourage all people to adopt climate-smart agriculture through access-ing 1) expertise from other countries, 2) lessons from pilot studies and 3) resources needed to establish the necessary operating principles, extension ser-vices and farmer support schemes;

• Engagement of businesses, foundations, develop-ment agencies and intergovernmental organizations in support of this government-led agenda in ways that bring benefits to the people whose livelihoods are most threatened by climate change .

Targets and MilestonesFor the inception year, 2015, the following targets were set:

• Developing a governance structure;

• Establishing the strategic committee;

• Developing a work plan of the Alliance for the incep-tion year,

• Setting up and operation-alizing the facilitation unit;

• Putting in place Action Groups to drive the initial focus actions of the Alliance .

Progress Review

Baseline Current StatusExpectations for the Future

There was no baseline, as this is voluntary coalition, and members were not asked to pro-vide any baseline information before joining . The first at-tempt to establish a baseline is now in the inception year, as the GACSA asks members to provide stocktak-ing reports for their constituencies .

y Strategic Committee was established .

y Three action groups have been formed .

y GACSA website is developed and func-tional .

y GACSA has participat-ed in nearly 20 events around the world .

y GACSA is planning a number of information and advocacy sessions at COP21 .

Target to get 500 million farmers prac-ticing CSA world-wide by 2030 .

The success of the initial projects and their impacts will be a natural motiva-tion and trigger for voluntary adoption of the approach, and this will constitute a vehicle for scaling up the activities, both in content and scope .

Geographic Coverage Capacity to Deliver

The Global Alliance geographic coverage was already broad last year . Within a year the Alli-ance was working on broadening the member-ship in various geographic regions, increasing, for example, CSO and NGO involvement .

The Strategic Committee adopted a work plan for the inception year . The Alliance has a light governance structure which comprises four main ele-ments: 1) The Annual Forum (AF) is the general assembly of all the members and is the highest instance of the alliance for making major decisions and policies; 2) The Strategic Committee (SC), headed by two co-chairs, provides day-to-day leadership and strategic guidance for the activities of the Alliance; 3) The Facilitation Unit (FU), headed by a coordinator, serves as the secretariat for the Alliance, 4) The Action Groups (AGs) drive specific activities to produce tangible outputs towards achieving the aspirational goals of the Alliance .


North American Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance: Adaptive Management to Meet Food, Fibre, Energy and Environmental GoalsSolutions from the Land is the primary sponsoring entity and has several other partners

Mr. ernie Shea [email protected]

Announcement and Area of WorkThrough this initiative, Solutions from the Land will facilitate and support a North American Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance wherein farmers, ranchers and foresters can collaborate with partners from industry, academia, government and NGOs to share and discuss new adaptation practices, tools and production systems designed to improve resilience and mitigate the risks of changing climatic conditions . This new Alliance, which will collaborate with the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture, provides North American agricultural and forestry leaders with platforms for shaping an integrated approach to pursue the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture . These include: 1) sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and livelihoods (sustainable intensification); 2) adapting and building resilience; and 3) reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions .

Members of North American Alliance will 1) review the latest that science is telling us about changing climatic conditions and the impact their impact on agriculture and forestry industries; 2) formulate and prioritize recom-mendations on adaptation needs, priorities and policies to reduce risk and enhance agricultural operation resil-ience; 3) support and comprise farmer/forester leader-ship teams that will share and discuss real-world adapta-tion and resiliency strategies with their peers at national, regional and local forums; and 4) participate actively in the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture .

Targets and MilestonesThe Alliance’s Formation Plan established first-year target outcomes: Increasing the number of member organization to 100 . As of September, the Alliance had grown to 49 members . Also, training and equipping 50 farmer leaders to be climate-smart agri-culture leaders . This goal is well on its way, as the Steering Committee is represented by more than 10 current farmers with former farmers also represented .

The Steering Committee is growing to repre-sent other agricultural sectors . The Alliance also established a target of being an active participant on the Global Alliance on Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) . The Alliance is now setting next-phase targets that will be developed further at the Steering Commit-tee meeting on 25 September 2015 . These include establishing work teams that focus on financing the Alliance; developing and imple-menting an outreach and engagement plan; identifying issues that need to be immediate-ly addressed; and finally a creating a group that will develop adaptive management strat-egies . The work of these groups is interrelat-ed, and the Steering Committee will be de-veloping metrics for measuring the success .

Progress Review

Current Status Expectations for the Future

The North American Cli-mate Smart Agriculture Alliance Steering Com-mittee had its inaugural meeting on 30 June 2015 at the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington, D .C . The Steering Committee will have its second meeting on 24 September and will update the newly recruited Steering Com-mittee members on work to date, as well as next steps by Alliance members . The Alliance will approve a frame-work and a 2015-2016 work plan .

The North American Climate Smart Agri-culture Alliance will participate in the Global Landscapes Forum side event to the COP21 in Paris .

By 2050 the Alliance as-pires for farmers, ranchers and foresters to be able to manage land to produce the food, fibre and energy to support a growing population and econo-my, while protecting and improving biodiversity and the health of the environ-ment .

The Alliance aims to achieve to-be-established country targets for reduc-ing greenhouse gas and in-creasing the percentage of producers in each country that adopt climate-smart agriculture practices .

The Alliance is confident in its ability to utilize its diverse leadership base to scale up its efforts and achieve ambitious goals .

Geographic Coverage Capacity to Deliver Monitoring

The North American Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance has secured partners in Canada, Mexico and the US . The Alliance will look to share its experience and expertise with other devel-oping regions of the world .

The Alliance’s current work plan is to 1) champion integrating climate-smart agriculture principles into agricultural planning, investments and programs; 2) facilitate and/or participate in assessment and planning initiatives designed to achieve CSA outcomes; 3) identify and advocate for CSA needs and priorities; 4) communicate CSA policies, practices and financing mechanisms for scaling up sustainable agricultural development; 5) encourage the development of systems to monitor and measure progress; and 6) pursue pathways for change .

The success of the Alliance will be monitored and measured by the number of agricultural and forestry groups and value chain partners that participate in the Alliance and its work programme through government data which tracks pro-ductivity and net income; the adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture practices; and the number of participating organizations, states and provinces that devel-op and adopt adaptive management strategies . The Alliance is in the process of developing mechanisms for monitoring and measuring success . The Alliance has not logged with NAZCA at this time .


EverGreen Agriculture PartnershipWorld Agroforestry Centre, other core members: World Vision International, World Resource Institute General members: numerous organizations and governments

Mr. henry neufelDt [email protected]

Announcement and Area of WorkThe Partnership is an alliance of governments, international organizations, NGOs, research and educational organizations, farmers organizations and civil society that supports the accel-erated scaling up of agricultural practices that integrate trees in cropping systems throughout the world to achieve a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) . The Partnership builds the capacity of its partner organizations to expand the adoption of these practices, and it supports the achievement of quantitative targets for their deployment . It is working with the African Union through the AU-NEPAD African Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance to realize the commitment of African heads of state in the Malabo Declaration, which will enable 30 per cent of African farmers to practice CSA by 2025, focusing its contributions to this effort through the adoption of fertilizer tree technologies (FTTs) and other forms of evergreen agriculture . It supports its partners’ efforts in agricultural extension, training, research and implementation .

There are three types of evergreen agriculture practices: 1) conventional agriculture inter-planted with trees, conservation agriculture with trees (CAWT), and farmer-managed nat-ural regeneration (FMNR) . Evergreen agriculture practices provide needed biological and income diversity in the farm system . The types of intercropped trees may include species whose primary purpose is to provide products or benefits other than soil fertility replen-ishment, such as fodder, fruits, timber or fuel wood . The intercropped trees may also be species that fix atmospheric nitrogen and make available other nutrients to the crops from deeper soil horizons . Farmers cultivate these nitrogen-restoring trees and shrubs among their food crops, such as maize and other cereal . Large-scale adoption of evergreen ag-riculture practices has already occurred in several parts of the African continent . In Niger more than 5 million hectares of dryland croplands have been regreened through FMNR, involving about 1 .2 million farming families . Over 200,000 families in Malawi and thousands of smallholder farmers in Zambia and Rwanda have taken up this practice . These successes and many others have proven the potential of evergreen agriculture to be transferred to millions in these and other countries on a larger scale .

Progress Review

Current StatusExpectations for the Future

The Partnership is now working with the Global Restoration Initiative in developing an African Restoration Initiative to inspire and assist more African countries to make and implement for-mal commitments to the Bonn Challenge/New York Summit Declaration .

The Partnership has launched a collaboration with the African Union to develop a programme to achieve the target confirmed by the Second African Drylands Week to reach every Afri-can farm household in the drylands with the capacity to practice FMNR . The Partnership has launched an initiative with Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa to enable the member states to build the capacity to link the scaling-up of evergreen agriculture with fertilizer trees to their input-subsidies programmes . The Partnership has launched an Evergreen Energy Initiative to assist both the public and private sectors to implement integrated food-energy projects based on fertilizer tree technologies .

At the COP21 the Partnership will collaborate with its partner organizations to make an-nouncements for these new initiatives .

There is enormous potential for scaling up evergreen agricultural practices . Trees can be integrated into all farms across the African continent in some way . The Centre anticipates that the AU‘s targets for every farm family to use FMNR or assisted natural regeneration (ANR) by 2025 will be achieved . Also, the Malabo Decla-ration by African heads of state for 30 per cent of African farmers to be practicing CSA by 2025 can be achieved through evergreen agriculture practices such as FMNR and fertilizer tree tech-nologies .


There are currently 17 participating coun-tries in Africa, and the partnership works at a continental and glob-al level .

The EverGreen Agriculture Partnership is governed by representatives from the three founding organ-izations . The Partnership is administered through the secretariat (made up of chair, manager, research assistant and administrative assistant) hosted at the World Agroforestry Centre . Membership by other organizations is voluntary, based on mutual interest in evergreen agriculture practices . Partners are arranged by communities by organizational type (for example, government, civil society, research, edu-cation, etc .), and also in working groups, based on thematic areas of interest (for example, energy, FTTs, conservation agriculture, etc .) . The Partnership receives financial support for the secretariat office from bilateral grants, and in-kind support from partner organizations . The majority of resources to support the scaling up of evergreen agriculture are held directly by partner organizations .

The Partnership monitors performance through such indicators as: y Number and level of engagement of partners; y Value of resources leveraged through projects and partners to sup-port scaling up evergreen agriculture;

y Political support and buy-in for scaling up evergreen agriculture through political commitments, policy changes and investment decisions;

y Land area and number of farmers practicing evergreen agriculture .


Scaling Up CSA for ImpactWorld Bank

Mr. Marc SaDler [email protected]

Announcement and Area of Work

The World Bank Group (WB), under the leadership of its Global Agricultural Practice, will mainstream CSA approaches and practices in all its agricultural lending, with a target for adoption of 100 per cent within four years, up from 15 per cent currently .

This will be a marked expansion of adaptation, resilience-building and emissions-reduction activities, across an annual portfolio of around US$ 8 billion .

The focus of the initiative is to deliver projects, interventions and activities that capitalize on the synergies of increased production, enhanced resilience and reduced emissions of greenhouse gases from agricultural systems, be that through reductions in emissions in-tensity or net emissions . This will be achieved through the promotion of modern and ap-propriate technologies; increased access to services, products and markets for farmers; improved environmental stewardship and landscape approaches; the introduction of risk management strategies and products/tools; and a focus on the best available science- and evidence-based decision-making .

Progress Review


At the time of the summit, WB estimated that 15 per cent of its total lending to agriculture contained both adaptation and mitigation financing .

y 100 per cent of WB agricultural projects now undertake green-house gas baseline accounting before implementation;

y 100 per cent of WB projects are climate informed;

y 42 per cent of projects in the pipeline are climate smart;

y Over 35 per cent of the total lending in WB’s current pipe-line are for adaptation and mitigation co-benefits .

y WB retains the initial goal of reaching 100 per cent of projects being climate smart .

y WB will continue to have 100 per cent of projects climate informed and base-lined at inception for greenhouse gas emissions .


Global Scaling up climate-smart agriculture is integral to and mainstreamed within the World Bank’s Agriculture Action Plans as part of its normal lending and technical assistance operations . This CSA for Impact initiative is subject to normal WB governance structures .

As part of normal WB operations, projects are monitored in accordance with standard WB portfolio review and management .

Specific structures are not required, as this involves mainstreaming of climate change issues into agricultural development projects and technical assistance .


Small Farms, Big Impacts: Helping Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate ChangeInternational Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Mr. Gernot laGanDa [email protected]

Announcement

IFAD commits to investing climate fi-nance in poor smallholder farmers in developing countries . Through the creation of the world’s largest climate change programme of its kind, the Ad-aptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP), IFAD commits to increasing the climate resilience of 8 million poor smallholder household members worldwide by 2020 . This commitment can be increased to 15 million smallholders if US$ 300 mil-lion in additional climate finance can be mobilized from bilateral and mul-tilateral sources . Furthermore, IFAD commits to mainstreaming climate resilience throughout its entire agri-cultural investment portfolio by 2018 . Every new IFAD investment design will be screened for climate-related risks and include suitable actions to address and reduce these risks .

Targets and MilestonesBy 2020:

1) 8 million smallholders have increased climate resilience;

2) 80 million tons of green-house gas emissions (CO2e) are avoided or sequestered;

3) 1 million hectares of land are managed under climate-resilient practices;

4) water availability or efficien-cy for 100,000 households is increased;

5) US $80 million of rural infra-structures are made climate resilient;

6) 40 international and country policy dialogues are sup-ported .

Progress Review

Current Status Expectations for the Future

These targets have been integrated into the logical frameworks of 28 IFAD investment programmes: y 5,657,114 household members whose climate resilience has been increased;

y 1,519,050 hectares of land and 15 watersheds managed under climate-resilient practice;

y 99,049 households and 2,560 production and process-ing facilities with increased water availability;

y 579,709 individuals and 8,734 community groups en-gaged in climate risk management;

y US$ 54 million worth of new or existing rural infrastruc-ture and 625 kilometres of rural roads made climate resilient;

y 49 international and country dialogues on climate issues where ASAP supported projects or project part-ners make an active contribution .

At COP21 IFAD will launch the publication “The Policy Advantage”, which draws on lessons from the ASAP portfolio .

With additional financial contributions of US$ 300 million, IFAD could scale up the current targets of ASAP to the following levels: 1) 15 million poor smallholder household members more resilient to climate change impacts; 2) 1 .5 million hectares managed under climate-resilient practices; 3) 3,000 local farmer groups trained and engaged in participatory climate risk management actions; and 4) climate risk resilience mainstreamed in 100 per cent of IFAD‘s investment portfolio .


As of September 2015, 28 ASAP-supported projects were approved by the IFAD Executive Board, committing an amount of US$ 239 million from the ASAP Trust Fund to concrete actions that help smallholder farmers adapt to the impacts of climate change .

ASAP grants are joined with IFAD baseline investments which are implemented by government entities . The programming of ASAP funds follows the IFAD project de-sign cycle and is fully aligned with regular IFAD procedures and safeguards . There-fore, ASAP does not employ specific application procedures as do other funds, such as issuing calls for proposals that can be accessed by NGOs or CSOs directly . Results-Based Country Strategic Opportunities Papers (RB-COSOPs) are a typical point of departure for an ASAP investment, highlighting climate change adaptation as a strategic decision for IFAD operations in a specific country .

ASAP provides a monitoring and evaluation framework which sum-marizes relevant adaptation results, indicators and corresponding investment options . Project design teams working with ASAP fi-nancing apply this framework during the project design phase and select a subset of relevant indicators and targets in alignment with the programming context for integration with the results framework of the underlying IFAD investment . The commitment has not been logged with NAZCA .


Mainstreaming Youth and Persons Living with Disabilities in Climate Smart AgricultureClimate Smart Alliance Youth Group (CSAYN): Current partners: CANA (the Climate and Agriculture Network for Africa), the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network (SUN CSN) and farmingfirst.org.

Mr. Divine ntiokaM [email protected]

Announcement The main objective of the project is to create awareness, sensitize and build capacity in young people and persons liv-ing with disabilities on climate-smart agriculture concepts to increase food production . It will visits to colleges, young farmers and youth clubs, organize media talks, TV shows, presentations and semi-nars on climate-smart ag-riculture and organize site visits, drawing competi-tions, essay competitions related to climate-smart agriculture . This is a new initiative to promote and enhance youth and peo-ple living with disabilities mobilization and advoca-cy in ensuring no one is left behind before, during and after the summit .

Progress Review


The baseline was to launch CSAYN activities by January 2015, which was achieved .

CSAYN has launched activities in Togo, DRC, Cameroon and Nigeria . Plans are under way in Canada for the official launch in October . CSAYN is one the leading and most active youth groups recognized by the Global Alli-ance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) .CSAYN is collaborating with CANA, SUN-CSN and farmingfirst .org .CSAYN has also signed the ZHC and looks forward to its implementation . CSAYN has engaged with the UN Water for Life Decade to assist in scaling up the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programme .CSAYN was invited to present during the Global forum for Innovations in August 2015 in Abu Dhabi . CSAYN is also translating the 17 Sustainable Development Goals into ver-nacular languages that are relevant within all of the CSAYN chapter countries .CSAYN was sponsored by the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) to participate as a panellist in the Third UN Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa .

CSAYN anticipates becoming one of the official implement-ing partners of the Sustainable Develop-ment Goals, working with organizations such as SuSanA and educational organ-izations, on pro-grammes focusing on SDG 2, Zero Hunger .

CSAYN considers all its activities can easily be scaled up as the focus is to work from the ground up, directly with com-munities and youth, including farmers, to train them on climate-smart tech-niques, technologies and programmes .


CSAYN has expanded its activities into four key African countries—Cam-eroon, DRC, Nigeria and Togo —and had a pre-launch organizing meeting in Canada . CSAYN is also in the pro-cess of discussing the organization of various other country chapters .

Implementation strategy includes focusing on 1) the Climate Smart Farm-er-to-Farmer field school events across all active CSAYN country chapters and 2) defining and developing a series of guidance documents for all of the CSAYN country chapters to provide them with a framework for interaction with the CSAYN-GCU (Global Coordination Unit) and the various other organizations, including government and institutional and civil society organizations in each respective country that they will be interacting with . Governance structure of CSAYN currently consists of the CSAYN-GCU .

The monitoring process has been announced via e-mail with col-leagues . CSAYN has plans in place to eventually put a monitoring and evaluation framework in place, but CSAYN may require some funding assistance in order to implement a sufficiently rigorous monitoring and evaluation framework for the global network . The specific structures and mechanisms for monitoring the activities of the CSAYN network have not yet been fully defined, and CSAYN’s commitment has not yet been logged with NAZCA .

Targets and MilestonesTo educate and train as many young people as pos-sible in the smallholder farming community, includ-ing people with disabilities, regarding the various climate-smart agricultural techniques and technolo-gies, to support the goals of the Zero Hunger Chal-lenge (ZHC) .The first milestone was creating several local and ac-tive country chapters of CSAYN, which have launched activities in four African countries and having pre-launch organizing meeting and the first climate-smart farmer-to-farmer field school event in Canada .The next milestone included connecting with ex-isting organizations in Africa and globally, such as CANA, which will be the official CSAYN website host; the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network (SUN CSN); and farmingfirst .org, which will post in-formation about CSAYN events and activities and provide CSAYN with key information about its own network member events and activities .CSAYN’s next milestone will be to coordinate a se-ries of climate-smart farmer-to-farmer field school events across all active CSAYN country chapters, as well as defining and developing a series of guidance documents for all the CSAYN country chapters to provide them with a framework for interaction with the CSAYN-GCU and other organizations .

http://www.farmingfirst.org


Environmental Services Recognition ProgrammeGovernment of Costa Rica 2004-2010: International Development Bank (IDB)

Mr. roberto azofeifa [email protected]

Announcement and Area of WorkThe Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock commits to promote competitiveness in agriculture and food systems on an econom-ic, social and environmental basis . The most relevant mechanism to achieve the objective is the recognition of environmental services as an incentive to foster technological change through private investments with environmentally positive effects (IEA+) .

By law, Costa Rican society decided that organic agriculture produces environmental benefits that need increased support . For this reason, organic agriculture programmes became the beneficiaries of incentives by the Environmental Services Rec-ognition Programme . Its main objective is to foster organic ag-riculture and its role in terms of family farming, carbon seques-tration by organic matter in soils and the production of healthy food . The Programme supports the use of practices to improve sustainable production, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to improve resilience in agricultural food systems . It also encompasses practices for water use efficiency, productivity increase, forage biomass increase for cattle feeding, agrochem-ical reduction, waste agricultural biomass use for composting, rain harvesting, organic production .

Progress Review

Baseline Current Status Expectations for the Future

The base-line per-tains to the reduction of erosion reduction and water pollution and an increase in net income increase in rather than to CO2 reduction .

The Programme has been active since 2007, contributing to accelerate technological innovations in the agricultural sector mainly in livestock, dairy and coffee . During 2015 has been added projects in sectors like oil palm, swine, coffee, livestock and dairy pro-duction .

The Environmental Services Recognition Programme is part of the agricultural pol-icy framework for 2014-2018 . It is looking for innovative schemes to provide environ-mental services incentives for agriculture and livestock production . The scaling up of the Programme depends on 1) how fast the private sector implements environ-mentally positive technologies and 2) how much money the government has to implement the Programme countrywide .

The dream is that all private sector agricul-ture and livestock producers incorporate environmentally positive technologies in their processes and communicate their efforts to consumers so that they will be conscious of the importance of sustain-able production and consumption to society .


The Programme is developed at the national level, and the level of activity is higher in livestock-producing areas of the country .

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock works with national, regional and local organiza-tions . Local organizations coordinate with farmer organizations .

Financial support comes from the public budget of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock .

Until now the capacity to deliver has been sufficient to satisfy the demand .

The Programme’s impact can be monitored through efficiency improvement, income improvement, greenhouse gas emission re-ductions, water pollution reduction and soil erosion reduction .

Targets and Milestones

• To reduce negative externalities in agriculture and livestock production .

• To improve productivity and sustaina-bility at small and medium business .

• To foster technology for higher energy efficiency .


National Agricultural Resilience Framework (NARF)Sponsoring Entity: Federal Government of Nigeria Partners: CIMMYT and Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Programme of the CGIAR, GIZ, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Pula Advisors

Dr. DebiSi o. araba [email protected]

Announcement and Area of WorkThe National Agricultural Resilience Framework (NARF) is a National policy was adopted by the Fed-eral Government of Nigeria in April 2014 . It lays out a structured plan on making Nigeria’s agricultural sector resilient to the shocks and stresses brought by climate change . It will achieve this through strengthening the overall policy and institutional framework for improved resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change in the agricultural sector, including planning and implementation, systems for resource mobiliza-tion, and effective project monitoring and evaluation .

The NARF is a comprehensive framework which pro-motes 1) adaptation and resilience of agricultural and food system livelihoods affected by changing cli-mates, the adoption of low carbon practices for ag-riculture and food systems; 2) increased sourcing of food produced using climate-smart practices; 3) in-creased availability of insurance to compensate farm-ers for assets and production damaged as a result of extreme weather events and better access to insur-ance for smallholder farmers; and 4) more effective, useful and accessible farmer-based research on op-tions for climate-smart agriculture and food-systems practice .

Progress Review


In 2014, there was no coordi-nated national programme to promote climate-smart agricul-ture in Nigeria .

The executive memo seeking adoption of the NARF as a na-tional policy was presented to the Presidency in May 2015 .

Within NARF, the goal of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture is to ensure national coverage of agriculture insurance for 14 .5 million smallholder farmers by 2017 . Agricultural insurance will serve as an adaptation mechanism for smallholder farmers through the adoption of resiliency inputs and prac-tices, as well as for promotion of mitigation practices, such as alternate wetting and drying (AWD) for rice, which reduces methane from paddy farms .

100,000 maize and rice farmers are scheduled to participate in the first-phase pilots of the area yield and weather-based index insurance products in Kebbi and Katsina states . This will commence during the dry season farming period, which begins next month .

Nigeria wishes to create convergence in access to CSA technologies within the country and also lead the global effort . NARF hopes to leverage E-wallet, an electronic data-base of farmers, to bridge the challenges of technology and information asymmetry, which hampers access to knowledge and adoption of CSA practices . Nigeria wishes to continue in-ternal and global development and implementation of policies to promote green and blue growth, while providing stake-holders within the agricultural value chain the means to cope with and absorb shocks and stresses, bounce back to pro-ductive levels and avoid future recurrences .


The pilot will cover Kebbi and Katsina States in Northwest Nigeria and include over 100,000 smallholder farmers .

1) No action plan was provided for the 2014 Summit . The current action plan and implementation strategy will be released once the yet-to-be-appointed Minister of Agriculture reviews and approves it .

2) The NARF is being coordinated and implemented by the Department of Agricultural Land, Climate Change and Management Servic-es Department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture . The external partners provide technical and financial resources .

3) GIZ has provided financial support to cover the first phase of the pilots for the area yield and weather-based index products . Further funding would enable a wider roll-out of the products across multiple agricultural-climatic zones and for more crops .

4) There is sufficient capacity to deliver the objectives . The GIZ has recruited Pula Advisors as external coordinators to support the Federal Ministry of Agriculture in rolling out the pilots .

Permanent internal struc-tures to drive NARF imple-mentation are included in the performance monitoring contracts of the Federal Min-istry of Agriculture .

The commitment has not yet been logged with NAZCA .

Targets and MilestonesPilot roll-out of area yield and w ea t h e r- b a s e d index insurance products will commence dur-ing the 2015-2016 dry farming sea-son, targeting the maize and rice val-ue chains .

2. Adoption of practices that will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants from agriculture and food systems

12Adoption of practices that will reduce emissions

Climate and Clean Air Coalition Agriculture InitiativeLead Partners: Bangladesh, Canada, European Commission, Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO), Ghana, Japan, New Zealand, Nigeria, United States, the World Bank, and International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI)

MS. Martina otto Deputy Head of the Secretariat

[email protected]. catalina etcheverry

Coordinator catalina.etcheverry. [email protected]

Announcement and Area of WorkThe CCAC is the first high-level global forum devoted to addressing short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) including methane, black carbon and hydro-fluorocarbons (HFCs) . Action to reduce SLCP emissions has the potential to avoid 0 .5˚C in warming, 2 million annual premature deaths, and more than 30 million tons in annual crop losses globally by 2050 . The CCAC Agriculture Initiative is a new action-oriented initiative to catalyse actions to reduce SLCP emissions, while maintaining or improving productivity, through three distinct work streams: 1) livestock and manure management, 2) paddy rice production and 3) open agricultural burning . The CCAC Agriculture Initiative is the only group of activities for the Agriculture Action Area that focuses chiefly on mitigation of emissions .

The CCAC Agricultural Initiative is directly related to the work under “adoption of practices that will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants from agriculture and food systems” . The CCAC Agriculture Initiative is the first action-oriented global effort to address both methane and black carbon emissions from key agricultural sectors .

Progress Review

Current StatusExpectations for the Future

Livestock and Manure Management: Phase I completed . Phase II commenced in early 2015 and the implementation of Opportunities for Practice Change (OPCs) has started .

Open Agricultural Burning: Of the initial discussions across 26 countries, Phase 1 has led to the proposal of seven catalyst projects and related policy work in 2016-2017, including key messages and conclusions of the Himalayas and Andes Conference .

The Paddy Rice Production: The Paddy Rice Production component is working to reduce methane emissions by promoting alternate wetting and drying (AWD) prac-tices on a large scale . The component has established three programs in Viet Nam, Bangladesh and Colombia, which have hired country managers, organized national stakeholder meetings and developed action plans for each country . The implementers have also made advances in collecting the textural maps for AWD needed to develop the national suitability maps in each country .

Enteric Methane: February 2015 CCAC approved funding for the Enteric Methane component in the amount of US$ 756,354 for Phase 1 . Further US$ 2 million contingent on progress . The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC), and the Livestock Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural greenhouse Gases (GRA) will be jointly implementing activities .

Aspirational targets are being defined for the medium-term plan that will be presented as part of the CCAC Five-Year Strategic Plan during a SLCP thematic half day at COP21 .

Geographic Coverage Capacity to Deliver

Livestock Manure Management (LMMC): Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Bangkok, Thailand; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Hanoi, Viet Nam; Lilongwe, Malawi; Nairobi, Kenya; San Jose, Costa Rica .

Open Agricultural Burning: Himalayas and Andes .

Paddy Rice Production: Colombia, Viet Nam and Bangladesh .

Enteric Methane: Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia .

Since 2014 CCAC has been preparing a medium-term plan for 2015-2020, with the objec-tive of aligning with its four principal strategies . There are 11 lead partners of the CCAC that hold primary responsibility for the coordination, development, monitoring, reporting and implementation . A Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) has been established to provide advice to Lead Partners . The CCAC Agriculture Initiative has four implementers who have entered into a legal agreement with the Secretariat to be entrusted with all approved CCAC Trust Fund resources .

http://openburningcryosphere.org/

3. Increased sourcing of food produced using climate-smart practices

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McDonald’s Commitment to Sustainable BeefMcDonald’s Corporation commits to source verified, sustainable beef working with the multi-stakeholder Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and their global supply chain for beef.

MS. heiDi Glunz [email protected]

AnnouncementMcDonald’s has committed to source verified, sustainable beef by working with the GRSB, including the WWF, and their global supply chain for beef . Goal: Sourcing some of their beef from sustainable sourc-es, and to set an impactful 2020 goal by 2016 . This will be achieved through the following steps: 1) lev-erage GRSB principles/criteria to sourcing; 2) identify and support local field projects to scale up sustainable production practices; 3) work with other regional round-tables to develop common princi-ples and key performance indica-tors for regional-level production; 4) begin sourcing some of its beef from sustainable, verified sources in 2016 and 5) develop a quantitative goal for 2020 and beyond . Goals: 1) improve sustainability of more than 5 million farms 2) fund scalable sustainable beef field projects by initial annual invest-ment of US $1 .8 million; 3) holisti-cally transform the entire beef val-ue chain 4) support climate-smart agriculture .

Progress Review


As of the 2014 Climate Summit, the concept of sustainable beef was still being defined . In De-cember of 2014 the membership of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (RSB), Mc-Donald’s being a founding member, ap-proved global principles and criteria for sustainable beef production . The goal is to ensure that all aspects of the beef value chain are environmentally sound, socially responsible and economically viable .

Roundtables are developing approaches that align with GRSB Prin-ciples and Criteria . Canada committed to fund verification for up to 300 participants from the Canadian beef industry . The SAI Platform Beef Working Group, chaired by McDonald’s, tested the draft Farm Sustainability Assessment for Beef on 90 farms across Europe . The Brazilian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GTPS) developed the In-dicators Guidebook for Sustainable Livestock . The firm is a co-chair of the verification subcommittee of the US RSB . On 19 October 2015, the White House announced McDonald’s role in the American Business Act on Climate Pledge, which includes: y Deforestation: McDonald‘s endorsed the UN New York Declara-tion on Forests in 2014 and made the April 2015 Commitment on Deforestation . It is committed to eliminating deforestation from its global supply chain . As well as beef, an initial focus is on palm oil, fibre-based packaging, coffee and soy (beef and poultry feed) .

y Sustainable sourcing: In addition to focusing on sustainable beef, McDonald‘s goal is for 100 per cent of palm oil used to be verified system that supports sustainable production by 2010 . Also by 2020, the goal is for 100 per cent of fibre-based packaging to be from recycled or certified sources and for 100 per cent of coffee to be verified as supporting sustainable production .

y Energy, waste and recycling: By 2020, McDonald‘s goal is to increase energy efficiency 20 per cent in company-owned res-taurants in top markets, to include restaurant design standards, equipment innovation and operational practices . McDonald’s USA signed the Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers’ Principles, de-veloped by WWF and World Resources Institute . The company‘s goal is to minimize waste and increase the amount of in-restaurant recycling to 50 per cent by 2020 in top global markets .

McDonald’s wants to ensure its long-term access to key raw materials and so is committed to doing what it can to help protect ecosystems, pro-mote resource efficiency and help farmers to operate more efficiently so resources are available for generations to come . McDonald’s will continue to eval-uate opportuni-ties to develop product priorities beyond those that have already been identified: beef, packaging, fish, coffee and palm oil .


Global: For beef, approximately 85 per cent of the company’s total volume comes from five geographic region: Europe, Canada, United States, Brazil and Australia/New Zealand . These areas continue to represent the focus of the company’s sustainable beef strategy .

Collaboration across the industry with producers at the farm level, experts and credible NGOs, is critical to the viability of sustainable beef, not only for McDonald’s but also for the broader industry . Various roundtables function as a consortium of governing bodies that feed into the GRSB and global principles and criteria, which were approved by 96 per cent of the GRSB membership in December 2014 . McDonald’s has committed significant resources to support this governance structure and funding for pilot programs to test the efficacy of sustainable beef indicators in the field .

McDonald’s is building a process in collaboration with NGOs and others in the industry to ensure progress towards sourcing sustainable beef in each region and is validated via a third-par-ty verification scheme . In Canada, for example, producers work with Where Food Comes From, an independent firm, which leads the verification process to evaluate sustainable practices on participating beef cattle operations .

Targets and MilestonesMcDonald's sustainable beef goals include: • Lead the development

of global principles and criteria for sustainable beef in 2014;

• Develop goals and be-gin purchasing some beef from sustainable sources by 2016;

McDonald’s is also a signa-tory to the New York Decla-ration on Forests, a pledge to eliminate deforestation from key supply chains, in-cluding beef . The company published the McDonald’s Commitment on Deforest-ation in April 2015 . Aspirational goals for 2020: • 100 per cent of coffee,

palm oil and fish verified as supporting sustaina-ble production,

• 100 of fibre-based packaging from certi-fied or recycled sources .

http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/sustainability/signature_programs/beef-sustainability.html

http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/sustainability/signature_programs/beef-sustainability.html

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Walmart Climate Smart AgricultureWalmart stores Inc.

MS. katherine neebe [email protected]

MS. brittni furrow [email protected]

Mr. Mark eaSthaM [email protected]

AnnouncementWalmart’s Climate Smart Agri-culture Platform aims to catalyse agricultural productivity and re-sponsible resource utilization in its sourcing footprint, with increasing coverage and im-pact through 2025 . Walmart will work with suppliers and other partners to accelerate improve-ments in farm yields, green-house gas emissions and water usage for the crops it directly sources . Walmart will work with the suppliers which represent 70 per cent of its food business volume to scale up the manage-ment, tracking and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and on-farm water use .

Progress Review


Because each metric tracked requires two years of data to meas-ure year-over-year change, Walmart will not be able to report on performance in the first year . Walmart has received data for the first year of the com-mitment, and expects to establish baseline figures to analyse trends over time .

In addition to rolling out the Sustainability Index since the 2014 Climate Summit, Walmart has taken a phased approach to develop implementation plans to reach its targets . The first phase was to analyse the Walmart US Food Business footprint in greenhouse gas emissions, water, and produc-tivity, and then work with Walmart stakeholders to prioritize opportunities by the level of importance and impact on the business . This information led to the development of 3-, 5- and 10-year strategies with pilot and project plans that include suggested partners, key criteria for measurement of impact, and recommendations for scale achievement .

Since September 2014 announcement, Walmart joined both the We Mean Business platform and the World Business Council for Sustainable Devel-opment CSA LCTPi .

As Walmart implements the climate-smart agricul-ture strategy, many of the initial pilots and projects that are expected to grow into more regions and to more suppliers, and involv-ing more partners . Expec-tations are that Walmart’s opportunity to reduce greenhouse emissions, decrease water use, par-ticularly in water stressed regions, and increase productivity will expand even beyond the ambitions outlined here .


Global The Sustainability Index is central to Walmart’s ability to deliver sustainable products to custom-ers . The Index helps retailers and their suppliers 1) improve the sustainability of the products customers love and integrate sustainability into the business of buying and selling merchandise; 2) reduce cost, improve product quality and create a more resilient supply chain; and 3) strengthen customers’ trust in retailers and the brands .

Walmart is working to have suppliers, who represent 70 per cent of its food business, participate in the Sustainability Index . Recruitment and participation in the Index, via an annual survey, is the largest enabler for success in measuring relevant, representative numbers and quality reporting .

To help reinforce supplier participation in the survey, Walmart merchants for whom this work is relevant will drive sustainability goals tied to his or her performance objectives and will use the Index as the primary tool to measure progress .

Managing and tracking improvements will depend heavily on sup-plier participation in the survey . Walmart’s goal is to receive re-sponses from suppliers representing at least 70 per cent of food sales volume that is eligible for tracking by the index by 2025 .

Survey adoption will require each supplier to survey its grower base across crops to 1) disclose the percentage of their representative supply they are able to report on and 2) create a weighted average for each metric that accurately represents the supplier’s overall pro-ductivity across yield, on-farm water-use, and on-farm greenhouse gas emissions for the percentage of production they are able to report on for the given crop .

Targets and Milestones

Walmart will use the annual Sustainability Index to create trans-parency in the agricul-ture supply chain to catalyse improvements in agricultural produc-tivity and responsible resource utilization in a ten year vision, through 2025 . As opportunities are identified, discrete programs may be de-veloped, and targets and milestones will be developed over the lifespan of the initiative .

4. More effective, useful and accessible farmer-based research on options for climate-smart agriculture and food-systems practice

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CGIAR Research and Development for Climate Smart AgricultureCGIAR Fund Council channels funds to the CGIAR. It is made up of all the major development donors. The CGIAR has hundreds of partners.

Dr. bruce caMpbell [email protected]

[email protected]

AnnouncementCGIAR research is dedicated to reducing rural poverty, increasing food security, improving human health and nutrition, and ensuring more sustainable management of natural resources . It is carried out by 15 centres that are members of the CGIAR consortium . Starting in 2015, CGIAR is committed to refreshing its research and development portfolio to better align with the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA) . This will include strengthening partnerships to deliver ambitious targets; conducting research for impact, including action research with farmers; and allocating at least 60 per cent of its funding to research that supports climate-smart agriculture .

Progress Review


Baselines were estab-lished at the start of the programme .

Achievements for 2015 are summarized in the following report:

Implementing climate-smart agricul-ture for enhanced food security and resilience . CCAFS progress report August 2015 .

At the COP21 a new initiative on soil carbon will be announced; successes to date will be the focus .

The targets for 2022 and 2030 are found in the CGIAR Strategy and Results Framework 2016-2030 .


The coverage remains as developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America .

y Each year the CGIAR prepares a programme of work and a budget .

y The CGIAR is now preparing for Phase 2 of CGIAR Research Programmes, 2017-2022 .

y Each centre of the CGIAR has a Board of Trustees and the 15 consortium research programmes have independent science panels that guide strategy and implementation .

The programme has indicators and milestones for its proposed impact pathways .

Targets and MilestonesCGIAR focuses on the full spectrum of issues addressed by GACSA, including productivity, adaptation and mitigation . It aims to help developing countries and small-scale producers (farmers, fishers, livestock-keepers and foresters) im-prove productivity and sustainability of their land . CGIAR works through part-nerships to put its research into action . Partners include national and regional research institutes, civil society, academ-ia and the private sector . Also a priority are incentives to enhance the uptake of climate-smart agriculture, such as insur-ance, seasonal forecasting, enhanced in-formation to farmers and credit .

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/publications/implementing-climate-smart-agriculture-enhanced-food-security-and-resilience-progress






https://library.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10947/3865/CGIAR%20Strategy%20and%20Results%20Framework.pdf




Empowering Farmer Organizations on Climate Change Through Better ForesightGlobal Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) Partners: Farmers Organizations: AFA, ROPPA, COPROFARM; Regional forums operating within GFAR (APAARI, AARINENA, CACAARI, FARA, FORAGRO)

AnnouncementCGIAR research is dedicat-ed to reducing rural pover-ty, increasing food security, improving human health and nutrition, and ensuring more sustainable manage-ment of natural resources . It is carried out by 15 cen-tres that are members of the CGIAR Consortium . Starting in 2015, CGIAR is committed to refreshing its research and development portfolio to better align with the Global alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA) . This will include strengthening partnerships to deliver ambitious tar-gets; conducting research for impact, including action research with farmers; and allocating at least 60 per cent of its funding towards research that supports cli-mate-smart agriculture .

Progress Review


The baseline used was the one pre-sented at the GROW SMART 2GETHER Day of the Third Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change was held 3-5 December 2013 in Johannesburg .

Outcome 1: Logistical support to develop the capacity of local farmer organizations and com-munities in Asia and in Central Africa to identify future challenges affect-ing their livelihoods .Outcome 2: Logistical support to local farmers organizations and com-munities in Asia for the implementation of grass-roots foresight initiatives .Outcome 3: Full involvement of AFA, PROPAC and Identification of additional relevant and volunteer Organization . 10 training session for farmers organizations completed, 5 climate-change scenario-building completed .

y To contribute to the achievement of GACSA‘s aspirational goals, to ensure that the Alliance becomes genuinely inclusive and effective in achieving its vision to improve people’s food security and nutrition in the face of climate change; and to help governments, farmers, scientists, businesses and civil society, as well as regional unions and international organ-izations, to adjust agricultural, forestry and fisheries practices, food systems and social policies to these goals . GFAR enabled the participation of civil society in preparatory work for the Climate Summit in New York and in further discussions around the estab-lishment of GACSA . In the interests of truly equitable partnerships, it is essential that such perspectives are included in consider-ing these vital development issues .

y Crucial for addressing the concerns of a number of civil society organizations vis-à-vis the preparatory phase and inception year of implementation of GACSA and having their support and involvement in delivering GAC-SA objectives at the global, regional, national and community levels .


1) Asia: Viet Nam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia and in Central Africa: Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic .

2) International collaboration with two CGIAR research programmes: the Aquatic Agriculture Systems (Malaysia), and the Forestry and Agroforestry Programmes (Indonesia) .

The initiative provided a action plan for the summit .

y GFAR is a multi-stakeholder forum to mobilize the world’s agricultural research and innovation community by work-ing together to transform and strengthen systems of agricultural innovation to increase their impact in development .

y Financing was not secured after the Summit . Limited GFAR core funds were used, and the European Commission provided funds to cover October 2014-September 2015 activities . This arrangement can continue until December 2015 against the contribution pledge received by the GACSA facilitation unit for carrying out committed activi-ties . GFAR has submitted funding proposals to Norway and the UK‘s Department for International Development .

GFAR Secretariat was fully engaged in the monitoring of the Initiative alongside the GACSA Facilitation Unit also hosted by FAO which inherit-ed the responsibility of coor-dinating and reporting on all GACSA related activities

Targets and Milestones2015: Identify additional rele-vant volunteer organizations and conduct training workshops for farmers organizations (10 training sessions completed, 5 climate change scenario-building com-pleted) .

2016: 1) Report on the increased capacity of selected farmers or-ganizations and local communi-ties to identify challenges affect-ing their livelihoods and 2) side event at the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for De-velopment, GCARD3, April 2016; (30 training sessions, and 15 cli-mate change scenario-building completed) .

2017: Increased capacity of select-ed farmers organizations and lo-cal communities to address chal-lenges affecting their livelihoods report; (40 training sessions, and 30 scenario-building completed) .

Mr. harry palMier [email protected]

http://afcconference.agric.za/downloads/presentations/day2_room3/no2_palmier.pdf




Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse GasesThe Global Research Alliance (GRA) has a total of 46 Member countries, with Dominican Republic, Egypt, Tunisia and Poland joining since the Climate Summit. New Partner Organizations: (WAF, CABI)

Announcement

The GRA on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases continues to build on three years of achieve-ments, since member countries signed the GRA Charter in 2011 . The GRA has success-fully built global science networks in five key work areas: livestock, croplands, paddy rice, inventories and monitoring, and soil carbon and nitrogen cycling . It has done so by build-ing science capability through collaborative multi-country projects, developing interna-tional funding mechanisms, regional capa-bility building workshops and technical train-ing, fellowships and awards, and developing globally standardized measurement guide-lines . The next phase of the GRA will see an increased focus to implement the farm man-agement practices and technologies that can improve farmer livelihoods while also reduc-ing the emissions intensity of agricultural pro-duction systems . Over the past 12 months, membership has expanded to include an ad-ditional 9 countries with a total of 42 member countries and 7 global partner organizations now participating in the goals of the GRA .

Progress Review


One of the first ac-tions of each of the re-search and cross-cut-ting groups they were established in 2009 was to take stock of the current state of knowledge and re-search in their areas of expertise . As a result of the six-monthly and annual reports to the Council the GRA has a baseline of informa-tion about the pro-gress that has been made in increased collaborative research, some very significant research outcomes, and increased capac-ity in GRA member countries .

Since the 2014 Summit Mem-bership has increased from 42 countries to 46, with engagement workshops in the Mediterranean and eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia expected to increase members further . The GRA Council will consider an additional four internation-al organizations as partners for the GRA at the September 2015 Council meeting which will improve the transfer of knowl-edge from the GRA research and cross-cutting groups out to farmers, policymakers and other initiatives funding global climate change and agriculture activities .The development of a GRA strat-egy for 2015-2020, to take place at the September 2015 Council meeting will set the direction of the GRA for the next five years .

Mitigation and adapta-tion to climate change will be seen as two equally important and inseparable aspects of the conversation around agriculture and climate change . The GRA aims to in-crease the alignment of research funding across its member countries and influence regional and global collabora-tions between mem-bers . The outcomes of the research groups will provide a scientific ba-sis on the opportunities to mitigate agricultural greenhouse gases while building resilience and increasing productivity .


Since the Climate Summit, the GRA has held an engagement workshop in Tunisia, connecting to governments and scientists from the Mediterranean region, leading to Tunisia and Egypt becoming GRA members, with five other countries in the region also interested joining . The Croplands Research Group and the Livestock Research Group are both developing regional activities for these countries . A further engagement workshop is planned in Izmir, Turkey (18-19 November 2015) to develop a GRA network of eastern Mediterranean and Central Asian countries and identify common agricultural production systems . The GRA is also expanding into Africa, and a recent workshop in New Zealand (27-31 July 2015) on agricultural greenhouse gas inventories has introduced representatives from Botswana to the GRA and renewed connections with South Africa .

The GRA Council work plan is updated annually to set the direction of actions for the GRA for the coming year . The GRA Council oversees the activities of three research groups (croplands, livestock and paddy rice) and two cross-cutting groups—soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, inventories and monitoring—as well as the networks and research areas that contribute to the activities of these five groups . Member countries chair the Council on an annual rotating basis . The GRA has no central funding mechanism; each member country contributes as much as it is able to support activities the GRA . The research and cross-cutting groups are led by two co-chairs with resources for this role provided by the member that has committed to support each position .

Each research group meets annually to review and update their work plan of activities, with networks and pro-ject groups meeting as required . The Council is provided with two reports a year on the actions of the groups .

The Council also meets annually to re-view and update their own work plan as well as to discuss annual work plans of the research and cross-cutting groups .

Targets and MilestonesGRA activities include:

• Publishing guidelines on best practice for measuring greenhouse gas emissions agricul-tural systems;

• Synthesizing research results;

• Developing mitigation and adaptation solu-tions;

• Collaborating on research projects with multiple countries and partners;

• Supporting literature and research databases;

• Undertaking capacity and capability-building work, particularly in de-veloping countries .

Gra Secretariat [email protected]


ConclusionThe 2014 Climate Summit sought to raise political momentum for a meaningful universal climate agreement in the Paris Climate Conference and to galvanize transformative action in all countries to reduce emissions and build resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change . At the Summit an unprecedented number of heads of state or government, business leaders and civil society leaders announced actions in areas that would have the greatest impact on reducing emissions, including climate finance, energy, transport, industry, agriculture, cities, forests and building resilience .

In the Agriculture Action Area, 21 initiatives were presented, launched or significantly scaled up . These actions aimed to enable farmers, fishers, foresters and livestock keepers to adapt to changing climates in order to provide food security for 9 billion people by 2050, while reducing the harmful impact of agriculture on climate change by reducing and/or removing emissions .

In his summary of the meeting, the United Nations Secretary-General called on all leaders to “fulfil and expand on all the pledges and initiatives” announced at the Summit . This report provided an opportunity for the initiatives announced in the Agriculture Action Area to provide an update on progress . Fourteen of the 21 initiatives launched at the Climate Summit reported . They sought to show that action is already taking place and that emissions can be cut and resilience built by working individually and collectively .

The responses show that the countries, organizations, civil society organizations and businesses that participated in the Agriculture Action Area have responded to the Secretary-General’s call to transform commitment to action . Progress includes an increase in climate resilience among over five and a half million people through the Small Farms, Big Impacts: Helping Smallholder Farmers to Adapt to Climate Change initiative; the roll-out or expansion of existing country-led initiatives such as the Environmental Services Recognition Programme and the National Agricultural

Resilience Framework; smallholder farmer capacity-building through research and training, including through empowering farmer organizations on climate change through better foresight and research and development for climate-smart agriculture, and through working along agriculture supply chains to increase productivity, improve sustainability and promote responsible resource utilization (McDonald’s, Walmart) .

The Lima to Paris Action Agenda (LPAA) taking place during the Paris Climate Conference builds on and reinforces the outcomes of the 2014 Climate Summit . As part of the LPAA, an Agriculture Focus Day will take place in Paris on 1 December . This half-day discussion will consider current challenges and present new or existing initiatives with the potential to deliver meaningful results .

The LPAA Action Day will take place on 5 December 2015 . It will bring together the outcomes from the focus days on agriculture, forest, transport, renewable energy, energy access and efficiency, resilience, cities and subnationals, private finance, business, innovation, building and short-term pollutants . It will share the objectives and achievements of impactful initiatives, giving inspiration to economic and political leaders to achieve a meaningful and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C increase from pre-industrial levels .

Agriculture will be critical to delivering on this ambitious but achievable target . It will require the scaling up of existing approaches and research and innovation to deliver new climate-adapted agriculture pathways to cutting emissions and building resilience . The initiatives presented at the 2014 Climate Summit have shown that change and positive outcomes are possible when all stakeholders work together and commit to actions on the ground that protect the poorest and most vulnerable farmers from climate change while creating environmentally sound and socially just global food systems .


Annex 1: Document Guidance

Document Guidance:

In the process of creating this report, the sponsoring entities of the individual initiatives were asked to respond on a variety of aspects to get a holistic view of the initiatives. The table below informs of the questions posed with regards to the particular aspects being covered.

1. Initiative information Initiative Title: Sponsoring Entity: Secretariat contact information (email/telephone):Partners and financing organisation(s):

Provide a complete list of members, including new partners that have joined since the Climate Summit.

2. Description of initiative

2014 Summary of Climate Summit Announcement:

Area of Work:

List Precise targets and milestones:

Geographic coverage:

Has the coverage expanded since the Climate Summit?

Capacity to deliver:

Did you provide an action plan for the Summit or do you have another implementation strategy? Briefly outline your governance structure. How well is financial support secured?Doe the initiative leader have sufficient capacity to deliver?

Monitoring :

How has the announcement been monitored?Have specific structures/mechanisms been put in place? Has the commitment been logged with NAZCA1?

3. Progress Overview a) Quantitative information: In our effort to gain increasing visibility over the next ten years into key metrics, we

achieved a 77% supplier participation rate for the Index (by sales) this past year. We are now working to evaluate results so that we can focus on measurement, driving impact, and fostering improvements.

b) Qualitative information: With this effort, we are working with our suppliers to track, report, and drive continuous improvement towards climate change (GHG, water, yield) outcomes.

Baseline

Was there a baseline at the time of the 2014 Climate Summit2?

Current status

What is the current status of implementation? What have you achieved since the 2014 Climate Summit? Potential outcomes for COP 21:Is your organisation or initiative planning to announce new or additional commitments in advance of COP21? If so, can you provide specific details? (quantifiable/qualitative) (include geographic coverage)

Future expectations

What is your aspirational target or “dream” level of impact/commitment beyond 2015? How do you consider the scaling‐up potential of the initiative?

N/A sections have not been included in this report.

1 http://climateaction.unfccc.int/ 2 All commitments can be found at http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/wp‐content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/AGRICULTURE‐annex.pdf


Annex 2: Other InitiativesOther initiatives that did not give reports:

• Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance

• African Union-Nepad Agriculture Climate Change Programme

• Encouraging the global coffee sector towards climate smart agriculture

• Kellogg’s commitment to help improve smallholder livelihoods and climate resiliency

• R4 Rural Resilience Initiative Expansion to Malawi and Zambia

• Climate Smart Agriculture Booster

• Yield, Income and Climate Gains through Smart Rice Fertilization

Documents

Agriculture Action Area One-Year · PDF fileAgriculture Action Area One-Year Report. ... Increased sourcing of food produced using climate-smart practices . . . . 13 McDonald’s Commitment