field experience, research and national policies contributing to global climate efforts –...
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Field experience, research and national agriculture policies contributing to global
climate efforts
- FAO-MICCA Programme results
Martial Bernoux, Maria Nuutinen & Janie Rioux
Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme, FAO
Side event: Sustainable agriculture and land use enhancing climate action and increasing productivity
EU Pavilion, COP22, Marrakech, 11 November 2016
• SBSTA: FAO calls for a holistic approach for agriculture sectors
• Contributing jointly to food security, adaptation and resilience as well as reducing and removing GHG emissions
• MICCA Programme (since 2011)
• has found ways to addressing climate change in smallholder farming systems,
• has made an impact at the national & global levels.
Boy running from peat fire, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Photo: Alue Dohong
Context
FAO & SDG: End hunger & support countries in achieving food security and improve nutrition.Objective: Make agriculture sectors (crop, livestock, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture) more productive and sustainable
MICCA country-work approach
• Work through partnerships: Integrate the Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) approach into on-going development activities
• Context-specific!
• 3 dimensions: food security, adaptation & GHG emission reductions
• Test and demonstrate the synergies and trade-offs
• Provide quantifiable evidence on CSA to and work with farmers, national and local decision makers and international organizations and donors
• Development and research partner organizations have disseminated the project’s messages and integrated its findings and lessons into their own work
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Field activities
1. Developing menus of practices with farmers
2. Implementation through gender-sensitive farmer field schools
3. Developing research methodology
4. Evaluation: adoption & benefits
5. Upscaling: Sharing results with policy makers and other project staff.
www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
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Piloting CSA in 2 countries
MICCA Pilot Project in KenyaIntegrated crop-livestock system of Western Kenya
Improving milk yield and income of dairy producers while reducing the climate change “footprint” of dairy production systems
MICCA Pilot Project in United Republic of TanzaniaCereal-based family farming in the highlands
Combining conservation agriculture practices with agroforestry, improved cook-stoves, and soil and water conservation to improve yield and livelihoods and reduce burning, erosion and deforestation
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Field results in Kenya
• Adoption of improved fodder grasses was associated with farm size, number of livestock, and labor availability.
• Agroforestry adoption was associated with secured land tenure.
• The price of milk in the wet season influences both the planted fodder crops and agroforestry.
• Participation in trainings increased significantly the adoption of improved fodder, agroforestry, composting, and tree nursery.
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Field results in Tanzania
• Insecure land tenure and small land size were barriers to adoption of agroforestry and soil-water conservation measures
• Availability of labor and capacity to hire labor were incentives for uptake of double digging and crop rotation, as these practices are labor demanding.
• Access to information, farmer to farmer learning and trainings were determinants of adoption for all practices
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Tree planting ICS SWC Tree nursery 2 CA
2 practices of conservation agriculture combining min. tillage, mulching and cover crops
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MICCA’s scaling-up and impact to larger processes at the national
level
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Results of Field Experiences
Policy support was mainly focusedon Kenya, the United Republic ofTanzania and Viet Nam.
NAMA preparedness projects in Kenya (dairy livestock) and Vietnam (rice and energy)
MICCA’s Focus areas: Policies
Promoting gender aspects of the climate change work to ensure sustainability
MICCA’s Focus areas
• Guidebooks, videos and learning materials prepared andwidely disseminated on a large variety of topics, including:• livestock value chain GHG emission estimation, sustainable
management of peatlands, and• Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs).
• The project has focused on the main GHG emission sources in agriculture sectors, including livestock, land use change and peatlands.
• MICCA: 11 online Communities of Practice (CoPs) were established, with 11 000 members from at least 130 countries: learning and exchanging information, increasing innovation & uptake of sustainable agriculture and land use.
MICCA is much more
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Take-home messages
1. Work together with smallholder farmers
• Building context specific menus of practices
2. Combine traditional and indigenous knowledge with latest research results, climate models
3. Take into account gender throughout the steps
4. Monitor the impact
• easy tools available e.g. for GHG emission reduction estimations
5. Build viable and alternative livelihood sources
6. Invest in knowledge-sharing and partnerships.
MICCA and partners thank its donors!
Thank you for your attention
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