Olu  Ajayi  

Wageningen, The Netherlands 5-7 August 2015

Climate Change Solutions that Work for Farmers

Background/Why the call? • Climate change (CC) is an increasingly important issue in policy discuss at different policy levels-

• Much info about challenges and impacts of cc on agriculture

• CC impacts on food security now, no longer a hypothetical future.

• Worsen vulnerability of food insecure populations

• Distribution of impact- poorer communities, groups with lowest capacity to adapt, but have highest need for food security (many in ACP)

• Long term impact is costly- compromise of agriculture and ecosystems e.g. adaptation costs @ several $$$$ billion/year (Nelson et al. 2009; Wheeler and Tiffin 2009)

 

Evidence  and  case  studies  on  CSA  • So  much  informa-on  about  challenges  of  cc  &  impacts  on  agriculture,  ...but  less  on  solu-ons  to  the  challenges    

• From  “searching”  to  “finding”  

• Sample  of  ques-ons  from  devpt  agencies,  policy  makers  – Where  are  the  solu-ons?    – Which  ones  have  been  successfully  implemented?    – Where?  To  what  extent?  What  are  the  impacts?  – Show  me  the  evidence!  

• Global  Donor  PlaIorm  mee-ng-­‐  -me  about  T,  T,  T  ?  

1. Proven solutions the help farmers respond to the challenges of cc; any hidden rare gems in ACP?: • Farmers’ practices • Policies & mechanisms for financing climatic risks • Successful deployment of ICT tools

2. Understand their impacts- where, extent, drivers? 3. Scaling up to wider farmer communities and various stakeholders

Objec6ves  of  the  Call  

• Call launched late 2014 focusing on ACP

• Over email 300 inquiries

• 221 substantive applications

• Responses from universities, NGOs, CGIAR, FAO

• Europe, Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia and Americas

The  Call  and  the  Response  

• Different screening phases- content & technical compliance

• Panel from EU & ACP regions-technical & user perspectives including farmers working on climate change

• Huge interests to support proven solutions- CTA new strategic thrust, donors, GACSA

• This week... Reality check- show us the evidence?

Where  are  we  in  the  process?  

• Progress  of  case  studies  &  peer-­‐review  to  highlight  their    prac-cal  relevance  as  cc  solu-ons  for  smallholder  farmers  

• Iden-fy  drivers  of  success/adop-on  &  lessons  for  scaling  up    the  most  promising  cases  

• Iden-fy  key  communica-on  materials  (synthesis  &  book)  and    communica-on  forums  (GFIA,  CoP21,  etc)  to  inform    stakeholders  given  CTA  new  accredita-on  in  UNFCCC  

• Iden-fy  key  partners,  type  of  partnership  arrangements  &    resource  mobiliza-on  to  scale-­‐up  the  most  promising  &    proven  cases  

The  next  three  days  

Merci  Thank  you  

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