Overview of the CTA project: ''Climate change solutions that work for farmers''
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Transcript of Overview of the CTA project: ''Climate change solutions that work for farmers''
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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