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Carbon Finance. Energy and Climate Smart Agriculture: a Development Perspective

1) Background: Hivos, an international development organisation

2) Green Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

3) Domestic Biogas: 100% Clean Cooking and much more

4) Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture – Pilot Projects

Harry Clemens, Hivos –

presentation Gold Standard Conference, Zurich, 11 March 2014

Gold Standard Conference, 11 March 2014

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People Unlimited

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2) Green Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

Carbon Credits as co-financing source for Renewable Energy

• Hivos Climate Fund buying carbon credits from NBP Cambodia since 2007, registered VGS since 2011

• Development of Gold Standard and CDM projects for domestic biogas programmes in Indonesia, Kenya/ Africa, Nicaragua

Climate Smart Agriculture --> PES & Carbon Finance

-- > same principles, but different specifics

= multiple environmental services =

= less carbon revenues =

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2) Green Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

Climate Smart AgricultureDevelopment Objective: Food Security at global and

local level, but - Acknowledging planet boundaries- Improved productivity (incl soil fertility) of smallholders

is key to increase rural incomes and employment- Adaptation to climate change is imperative / resilience

(even necessary without climate change)

+ Biobased Economy: beyond food: agriculture/ nature needs to provide more products to replace fossil based economy

.

e.g. Africa Biogas Partnership Programme

DomesticBiogas =

100% Clean Cooking

3) Domestic Biogas

Domestic biogas

•Design: fixed dome (4-13m³)•Local materials & resources

•Feeding: livestock manure & human excreta (> 20 kg daily)

• Investment cost Africa: USD 650-1500

• Life: > 20 years• Gas use: cooking & lighting• Bio-slurry: organic fertiliser

• Design: fixed dome (4-13m³)

• Local materials & resources

• Feeding: livestock manure & human excreta (> 20 kg daily)

Multiple Benefits

Multiple Benefits

Multiple Benefits

Environment

Energy

Health &sanitation

Agriculture Economy

Use & Benefits of Bio-slurry

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Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture

1) Peru: conversion from wet rice system to a system with banana/ cocoa & (high value) shade trees

2) Nicaragua: farm restoration from degraded land (coffee, fruit trees and other)

3) Kenya: usage of bio-slurry from biogas digester as alternative fertiliser

Hivos Pilot projects to test new CSA methodology

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Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture

Implementing partner: CEPICAFE

- assisted by Proclimate / Progreso Foundation

1) Peru: conversion from wet rice systems to a system with banana/cocoa & (high value) shade trees

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Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture

Land conversion from rice to banana/ cocoa/ timber Feasibility assessment has been completed in 2013 Emission reduction potential calculated with Cool Farm Tool BE (rice) 16,5 tCO2e/ha PE 1,4 -> ER 15,1 tCO2e/ha

1) Peru: conversion from rice to banana and cocoa with shade trees

Experience with CarbonFix in coffee region/ reforestation - initial project 250 farmers, 250-500 ha (will be expanded)

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Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture

Implementing partners: CEDECO (Costa Rica)

& PRODECOOP (Nicaragua)

CEDECO has developed Cam(Bio)2 methodology 3 components: SOC, GHG ER (incl fertilizer change) and Energy

efficiency

2) Nicaragua: farm restoration from degraded land (coffee, fruit trees and other)

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Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture

Implementing partners: CEDECO (Costa Rica)

& PRODECOOP (Nica)

PRODECOOP: total 2,300 members, 4,295 ha; pilot project on 2 coops 262 members (incl 75 women)

Baseline studies ongoing (soil, biomass, emissions, socio-economic, food security, biodiversity)

Measures: composting, shade/ biomass/ fruit trees?, other?

2) Nicaragua: farm restoration from degraded land (coffee, fruit trees and other)

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Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture

2) Nicaragua: farm restoration from degraded land (coffee, fruit trees and other)

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Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture

2) Nicaragua: farm restoration from degraded land (coffee, fruit trees and other)

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Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture

Implementing partner: Kenya National Farmers Federation KENAFF (formerly KENFAP)

- Kenya Domestic Biogas Programme KENDBIP

Already CDM/GS certified (registered at CDM) as a Renewable Energy ER project

We would like to add ER effect of bio-slurry : (fertilizer replacement, other?) -> bio-slurry liquid application, dried or composted

3) Kenya: usage of bio-slurry from biogas digester as alternative fertiliser

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Gold Standard Climate Smart Agriculture

We would like to add ER effect of bio-slurry : (fertilizer replacement, other?) -> bio-slurry liquid application, dried or composted

Pre feasibility study done by Soil & More (model simulation with tea producers)

Biogas User Survey – data collected in Kenya and Indonesia about soil features, crops and fertiliser use

Replicable to other domestic biogas projects

3) Kenya: usage of bio-slurry from biogas digester as alternative fertiliser

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Thanks for your attention

Harry Clemens hclemens @ hivos.org

www. hivos. org