EIT Climate-KICSustainable Land UseAgrifood – Climate-Smart Agriculture and FoodPan Pan – Deputy Director, CSA Flagship ManagerCatherine Laurent-Polz – Portfolio Manager30/10/2018

Who is Climate-KIC?Urban Transitions

Education

Sustainable Productions SystemsMaterials production

Regional economies

Industry emissions

Food value chains

Forests in integrated landscapes

Sustainable Land UseClimate-smart agriculture

Climate-risk information

Decision Metrics and FinanceDecision metrics

Climate finance

Networked alumni

Entrepreneurship

Capacity building

Retrofit & clean decentralised energy

Blue-green infrastructure

Mobility

Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest public-private partnership for climate innovation. It is one of three Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) created in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an EU body.

It funds and supports innovation and entrepreneurship activities for creating economically viable products and services addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Its activities are driven by 3climate change themes and 2 cross-cutting themes:

End-to-end innovation

IDEATIONSuccessful innovationstarts with a good idea

ACCELERATION & DEMONSTRATIONDefining and developing a climate product or service

SCALINGWidely adopted climate innovation

IMPACT knowledge and insights captured to reinforce learning

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTLearning for innovation and innovation for learningCapacity-building programmes for students and professionals

Relevant activities:Climathon, Climate Launchpad, Pathfinder (for partners), Greenhouse (for students)

Relevant activities:Accelerator, Partner Accelerator, Demonstrator (for partners)

Relevant activities:Scaler (for partners)

Relevant activities:Journey, Master Label, Pioneers, Certified Professionals

Number of partnersdistributed by sector16157

62

33

Higher Education

Business

Research

Cities, Regions & NGOs

EIT Climate-KIC across Europe

EIT Climate-KIC countries

EIT Regional Innovation Scheme countries (RIS)

What is CSA and Agrifood?Climate-smart agriculture (CSA), as defined and presented by the UN FAO is an approach to develop and operationalize the technical, policy and investment conditions to achieve sustainable agricultural development within the explicit parameters of climate change.

It integrates the 3 dimensions of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental) by jointly addressing food security and climate challenges with 3 main pillars: 1. sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes; 2. adapting and building resilience to climate change; 3. reducing and/or removing greenhouse gases emissions, where possible.

Food and agriculture (Agrifood) is a $7.8 trillion industry, responsible for over 40% of labor force and contributes to one of third of world’s GHG emissions. It is a complex industry, including a wide range of processes, operations, and roles as food travels from “farm to fork.”

In the past, food and agriculture were often viewed as separate industries but the interconnectedness of the supply chain demands a more holistic view of our food and agriculture system. Therefore increasingly, agrifood is being viewed as a single industry that spans the value chain from farm to fork. This holistic approach is needed to break the current silos and link the diverse actors along the entire agrifood value chain.

Sustainable Land Use – Focus areas

Forestry and landscapes

Forestry & Wood Value Chains

FoodValue Chains

Climate-Smart Agriculture

Integrated Land Use

INTEGRATED LANDSCAPES

AGRI-FOOD

WWF Landscape Finance Forum

Capacity andEcosystem Building

Food Security and Systems

Biomass and Forestry Management

Innovation and Technical Assistance

Agtech and Agri-finance

Deforestation and Carbon Sequestration

Wood Construction and Circular Economy

Cities and Surrounding Territories

Traceability Tools and Certification

Food Waste and Circular Economy

Foodtech and Traceability

Theory of Change –Impact Goal -> Outcomes -> Outputs -> Inputs (Activities)

Forestry and landscapes

Food Value ChainsCSA Booster

Goal 4Increase, by an order of

magnitude, the application of innovative climate-smart agriculture solutions (CSA) in

Europe

Goal 6Enhance carbon sequestration

by forests and other natural and managed ecosystems while

substituting carbon in downstream value chains

Goal 5Instigate transformation of

climate-damaging food value chains and significantly improve

the climate resilience of food supply

Climate-Smart Agriculture Forestry and Landscapes

Leverage Points

TECHNOLOGYFINANCE (FUNDING AND ACCOUNTING)MARKET STRUCTURES (ALTERNATIVE MODELS/VALUES)POLICY (REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS)ORGNIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE (DECISION MAKERS)INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGESKILLSINDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR

Outcomes (2022)Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)• Link diverse actors across the agriculture and food value chain by creating a multi-stakeholder open

innovation platform, growing local ecosystems and activating behavioral and dietary change.• Catalyze the application and adoption of CSA innovations via identification, assessment,

implementation and scaling of CSA solutions. • Accelerate and de-risk CSA investments by creating data analytics and tools, developing blended

insurance and financing mechanisms, and blending climate and agriculture finance.

Food value chains• Enhance food security by improving resilience and

sustainability of food systems and harmonizing food policies• Enable circular economy development by reducing, recovering

and reusing food waste for biomaterials and bioenergy• Catalyze food technology innovations by substituting climate

damaging products, ensuring better nutrition and creating stronger links between production and consumption

Programme overview and approach

We act as both an innovation platform and an accelerator where we bring together a multi-stakeholder ecosystem of public and private sector partners to incubate innovative and sustainable agrifood solutions, facilitate and catalyse their adoption and scaling, and to accelerate and de-risk investments into the sector across Europe and beyond. We act as facilitator, matchmaker, and community manager and builder.

To date, we work with over 70 Climate-KIC and non-KIC partners, and have activities across Europe in all major regions.

Pillar 1. Systemic change platforms• Ongoing capacity and ecosystem-building projects• Building infrastructure and channels for delivery and scaling, and strategic “knowledge assets”

Pillar 2. Innovation project portfolio• Impact, scalability and sustainability focused• To explore and validate new concepts and business models• To apply, co-create, pilot and scale solutions in context

Pillar 1 – Systemic change

1. Open Innovation Platform • Solution identification, assessment and matchmaking• Facilitate knowledge sharing and co-creation• Building and connecting user communities

2. Education and training • First multi-lingual CSA MOOC (EN, FR, DE, CN)• 3 modules: intro, wine, dairy VC. Precision ag. next • Customized content/formats for targeted audiences

3. Regional CSA hubs development • Regional and local stakeholder engagement and fundraising• Current CSA hubs in France, Italy, Netherlands and Nordic focused on

region specific themes led by local partners• Potential hubs in CEE and Africa

Pillar 2 – Innovation project portfolio

Food value chains

1. Food security and system• Multi-stakeholder collaboration for risk

mitigation among SC actors• Harmonizing and improving food policies• Citizen-driven approach for urban food system

2. Food waste• Reducing food waste by enabling circular

economy• Consumer awareness and education• Valorisation of industrial food waste for

biomaterials and bioenergy

3. Foodtech for better nutrition• Development of alternative proteins – plant,

insect, acquaculture• Solutions to enhance SC traceability and

transparency

Climate-smart Agriculture

1. Agriculture technology• Soil efficiency and resilience (inputs,

biologicals, fertilizer)• Farm tech (digital, precision agriculture,

robotics, etc.)• Novel farming systems (urban ag, alt.

protein, etc.)

2. Agrifinance and insurance• Data and risk analytics, MEL tools• Risk-sharing insurance mechanisms• Blended and “climate-agrifinance” facilities

3. Innovation and Technical Assistance• Value chain analysis (VCA) • Business modelling and co-design• Policy analysis and design

Key Projects/Programmes

GeoFootprintCSA Booster

Flagship

WINnERS Feed-X

CSA innovation platform and accelerator with a multi-stakeholder ecosystem approach to incubate, apply and scale CSA solutions

Platform to source and scale alternative feed ingredients for aquaculture to shift 10% of the global feed industry towards more sustainable production.

Providing micro-loan and index-based micro-

insurance against crop loss to smallholder

farmers in Africa using climate risk analytics and

collaboration with multiple VC actors

including regional banks, DFIs, traders, and retailers

Development of a web-based platform for environmental footprint accounting for land use and agriculture leveraging GIS data and LCA

CSA Project highlightsDanone Fruit Value Chain

Pilot testing new guidelines for climate-smart fruit production, pest resistance, genomics and soil management

6,700 farmers

Dairy Value Chain

Agritech startup using greenhouse lab tech to grow animal feed cost-effectively in arid environments, reducing water use by up to 99%

Up to 99% less water

Barley-IT

Reducing fertiliser &

GHGs

Cool Farm ToolGlobal calculator and impact assessment tool of farm-level GHG emissions, with metrics for biodiversity + water

15,000Farm

footprints

DryGro

20% GHG reductions

Developing methodologies for cutting dairy sector GHG emissions by 20% across Netherlands’ €12bn dairy supply chain by 2020

Crop modelling tech enabling farmers to maximize nitrogen absorption in malting barley, reducing fertiliser inputs and N2O emissions.

Remote SensingUsing remote sensing data to measure GHG emissions across company assets to evaluate insurance risk, land use efficiency & agricultural risk

Measuring climate risk

Our Impact

70+leading partners

€3mclimate funding

leveraged

>10new/improved productsand services developed

€2minvestment attracted

to start-ups

>20jobs created

> 5’000MOOC

participants

10+innovative

start-ups supported

Our Partnership Community

Core Partners

www.climate-kic.orghttp://csabooster.climate-kic.org/

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catherine.laurent-polz@climate-kic.org