increasing resilience for small scale cotton farmers

6th Technical Round Table (TRT) on Sustainable Cotton Production

Increasing resilience for small scale cotton farmers through diversification and landscape approaches

7th of October, 2021

3 - 5 pm, CEST

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Welcome from our Facilitator

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Jens Soth

Senior Advisor Commodity Projects

Helvetas, Swiss Intercooperation

Agenda

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3:30 PM

Short panel statements, discussion & wrap-up

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

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Welcome and Introduction

Felicitas Röhrig, BMZ; Heike Ostermann, GIZ; Jens Soth, Facilitator

3 PM

Presentation of study: “Boosting Biodiversity and Improving Farmer Livelihoods Through

Crop Diversification’”

Mathilde Tournebize, Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA)

3:10 PM

End of event

The ATLA Project (Adaptation to Landscape Approach)

Gregory Jean, Better Cotton Initiative (BCI)

Rossitza Krüger & Vikash Sinha, GIZ Global Programme ‚Sustainability and Value Added in Agricultural

Supply-Chains‘

Sustainability in a landscape approach for cotton production in India

Action for increased climate resilience through landscape approaches in Tanzania

Hendrik Buermann, GIZ International Services

3:50 PM

5:00 PM

Welcome and Introduction

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Felicitas Röhrig

Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development

Senior Policy Officer

Div. 122 - Sustainable agricultural value chains, international

agriculture policy, agriculture, innovation

Initiative for Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains - INA

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Overall Goal:

Improvement of framework conditions to

increase sustainability in selected global

agricultural supply chains

Main functions:

• Advice to the Federal Ministry of Economic

Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

• Project development and innovations

• Knowledge Transfer

• Information and access portal into GIZ’s

cotton world

Duration: until October 2023

Florian Reil

TeamleaderHeike Ostermann

Advisor

Supply Chains (selection):

Cotton, Banana, Cocoa, Coffee, Rubber, Palm oil

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Katharina Graf

Advisor

Milena Drude

Intern

Climate Change

AdaptationChild labour

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Income

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Today‘s Speakers

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Mathilde Tournebize

Programme Manager

Seed and Innovation

Organic Cotton

Accelerator (OCA)

Gregory Jean

Standard and Learning

Manager

Better Cotton Initiative

(BCI)

Dr. Rossitza Krüger

Project Manager India

GIZ Global Programme

‚Sustainability and Value

Added in Agricultural

Supply-Chains‘

Hendrik Buermann

GIZ International

Services

Project Director

Participating Institutions to this Webinar

Boosting Biodiversity and Improving Farmer Livelihoods Through Crop Diversification

Beyond Cotton:

Setting the scene…

O C A C R O P D I V E R S I F I C A T I O N W E B I N A R

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CROP DIVERSIFICATION, A TOPIC OF INTEREST TO ALL SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES

Maximising synergies

between the crops grown

together or after each other

Increasing the diversity of

crops grown at different times

and scales on the farm


CROP DIVERSIFICATION PRACTICES BENEFIT BOTH FARMERS AND PLANET


WHY WE LOOKED BEYOND THE COTTON CROP

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OCA places organic cotton

farmers at the heart of our

mission

Our Farm Programme in

India improves the business

case for farmers to switch to

and stick with growing

organic cotton

Growing cotton organically

uses a holistic and

regenerative farming

approach where farmers

grow more than cotton alone

Improving the business case

for organic cotton farming

means

• bridging the knowledge gap

on crop diversification

practices

• considering the profitability

of the entire cropping

system


OCA’S THREE KEY OBJECTIVES FOR THIS STUDY

Identify the best crop diversification

practices which optimise agronomic,

environmental and economic benefits

for organic cotton farmers across

different cotton growing regions in

India

Unpack the key levers to promote

the use of crop diversification

practices at the farm and

maximise their potential for

income generation

Highlight how higher levels of

crop diversification for

organic cotton-based farming

systems can best be achieved


A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH

F A R M G R O U P S A N D O C A I M P L E M E N T A T O N P A R T N E R S

S T A T E A G R I C U L T U R E D E P A R T M E N T

S T A T E A G R I C U L T U R A L U N I V E R S I T I E S

C E N T R A L C O T T O N R E S E A R C H I N S T I T U T I O N S

A G R I C U L T U R A L E X T E N S I O N C E N T R E S ( K V K S )

S E E D P R O D U C E R S

V A L U E C H A I N S T A K E H O L D E R S

The key takeaways



Crop rotation

1.INTERCROPPING AND CROP ROTATION TAKE TOP SPOT

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cropsIntercropping

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Genetic

diversity


2.THE CROP GROUPS THAT PROVIDE THE MOST BENEFITS IN COTTON-BASED FARMING SYSTEMS


3.WINNING COMBINATIONS FOR CROP ROTATIONS


4.WINNING COMBINATIONS FOR INTERCROPPING


5.DOES IT PAY TO DIVERSIFY CROPPING PATTERNS?

Example: Benefit-cost ratio calculation of recommended crop rotations vs monoculture system

Organic cotton farmers can maintain similar earnings while

• mitigating the risks of cotton crop failure and price volatility

• harvesting the environmental benefits of diversification

We can further boost the economic benefits of crop diversification

by maximising:

the farm's agronomic performance

price premium granted to farmers on all crops

product prices achieved through market linkages

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Land resources

Pests and Disease patterns

Soil health

6.A LOCAL APPROACH IS KEY• Success in organic farming implies finding the optimal crop

combinations that maximise their benefits at local level.

• The ‘recipe for success’ will vary across the various cotton-

growing regions of India.

• Crop diversification decisions should be based on a thorough

observation and understanding of the local conditions:


Scaling up crop diversification



SCALING UP CROP DIVERSIFICATION MEANS BRIDGING PUSH AND PULL STRATEGIES

PUSH

Support organic

farmers

PULL

Offer

opportunities

to sell produce

BRIDGE


BRIDGE

HOW WILL WE BUILD THIS BRIDGE?

PUSH PULL

SUPPORT ORGANIC FARMERS

HARNESS PUBLIC RESEARCH

AND EXTENSION SERVICES

ENGAGE SEED SUPPLIERS IN

THE MISSION

OFFER LONG-TERM MARKET

LINKAGES AND ECONOMIC

STABILITY

ADOPT A FEMALE FOCUS

LEVERAGE EXISTING POLICY PARTNERSHIPS

OCA’s progress since this study



WE AIM TO CHAMPION CROP DIVERSIFICATION WITHIN OUR FARM PROGRAMME

• Integration of best practices into OCA’s Organic Cotton

Training Curriculum

• Monitoring the use and performance of crop

diversification practices

• Identifying long-term partners - specialising in crops

other than cotton who could collaborate with OCA to

successfully link farmers to markets



INTERESTED? DOWNLOAD THE STUDY REPORT

organiccottonaccelerator.org/crop-diversification


Thank you

Visiting Address (NL):Rokin 102, 1012 KZ, Amsterdam

Postal Address (NL):Watersteeg 3, 1012 NV, Amsterdam

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Website:www.organiccottonaccelerator.org

• Today’s speakers and attendees

• FiBL and GIZ

• The public and private partners who provided input and feedback throughout this study

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ADAPTATION TO LANDSCAPE APPROACH (ATLA)

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❖ Growing interest from VSS in recent years

❖ Limited practical experience, no leading examples so far

❖ Implications for VSS:

• Broadening focus of management from single commodity,

individual production unit and physical supply chain, to whole

supply shed, jurisdiction or sector

• Reframing the boundaries for assessing and addressing risk

• Collaborating with a wider range of actors beyond the cotton

supply chain. Working to a common agenda. Sharing the

responsibility and the credit.

• Providing assurance on sustainable practice at scale, beyond

the farm gate

• Supporting new types of claims

Landscape approaches in the context of a Voluntary

Sustainability Standard (VSS) like BCI

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ATLA Project Intended outputs

Component 1: Global strategy

▪ Desk based research and global consultation

▪ Strategic roadmap and set of recommendations for 2030 strategy

Component 2: Pilot projects

▪ Implementation and adaptation to landscape management of Better Cotton Standard

System in the context of the Buyuk Menderes Project in Turkey.

▪ Develop a stakeholder analysis and engagement strategy as part of a regional

jurisdictional approach in Punjab Pakistan

Component 3: Shared learning

▪ Ensure knowledge and learning exchange throughout BCI Community of Practice

and ISEAL community

Initial strategic recommendations

• Prioritise where and at what scale it would be most efficient and effective for BCI to invest in landscape

approaches.

Spectrum of landscape approach: Light to full

• Look for public sector engagement and support as the backbone of efficient landscape governance

• Seek buy-in from private sector. In all other sectors where landscape approaches are currently being

implemented private sector involvement has been critical.

• Integrate Landscape level approaches into a standard

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Global Programme Sustainability and Value Added in Agriculture Supply Chains

October 2021

Global Programme Sustainability and Value Added in the Agriculture Supply Chains I Cotton

Increasing sustainable cotton production Strengthening of domestic supply chainsfor processing sustainable cotton

Oct 2021

Comissioned by the German Federal Ministry for

Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

under Initiative of “One World, No Hunger”

Objective: Increased value added from sustainable cotton in our partner

countries (India, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon)

Duration: 04/2019 – 03/2023

Project states: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu & MP

(as proposed by partners and for its signifance for cotton)

Global Programme Sustainability and Value Added in the Cotton Economy

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Sustainable Production: Landscape approach

Global Sustainability Standards:

Better Cotton Initiative (BCI)

Organic Standard

Fairtrade standard

National and global textile brands

and CSOs

Welspun India Private Limited

(BCI, digital extension services)

Prerana(Organic cotton, FPO training)

bioRe

(Organic cotton, input production)

Initiative for organic cotton

Organic Cotton

Accelerator - Training module

development on organic

cotton with FiBL Switzerland


Name of cotton

standard/ Textile

Company

Key support areas Geography,

farmers, area

covered

Welspun India Ltd

(Better cotton)

• Plant protection measures (IPM, INM, biological control measures)

• Better soil health management based on soil testing

• Crop rotation

• Water stewardship and watershed approaches

• Sustainable farm management practices

• Enhancing bio-diversity

• Kitchen garden for nutritional security

• Traceability (Real time data collection, farmers’ interface, Geo-tagging of

farms)

Wardha and

Kutchh

9500 farmers in

26000 ha

bioRe India

(Organic Cotton)

• Microbia consortia production and and biodynamic practices (improved soil

& nutrient optimization for the entire farm and village)

• Emphasis on reducing water pollution and grey water footprint

• Promotion of water-efficient measures (drip irrigation)

• Reduce their cost of cultivation and improve farm productivity by adopting

best agronomic practices and market linkages

• Crop diversity

Khargone,

Badhwani, Dhar in

MP

Dhule, Nandurbar,

Jalgaon in

Maharashtra

3000 farmers in

2000 ha

Promoting landscape approach in partnership with Textile Brands


Promoting landscape approach in partnership with CSOs

Name of Textile

Company

Key support areas Geography,

farmers, area

covered

Prerana

(Organic cotton)

Training and hand holding support to FPOs:

• Strengthening of farmer organisations and communities

• Combat GMO contamination

• Crop diversification

• Women-based self help groups for livelihood diversification

• Livestock management

Khargone, Khandawa

Dhar in Madya Pradesh

2000 farmers in 2000

ha

Corona support to

Fairtrade farmer

organisations

• Critical input support (biological inputs, Nimbecidine, etc)

• Crop diversification (seeds for cotton, maize and pulses)

• Enhancing food security of vulnerable farming communities

• Biogas for smoke-free kitchens

1200 farmers in 3 FPOs

in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu

and Madhya Pradesh

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Awareness raising and training on non-usage

of HHP for BCI farmers

From the field…

Training on stitching and sewing

A farmer explaining the preparation of Dasparni

(home made preparation)

Training on preparation for herbal plant protection

Organic cotton

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Aug 2021 Global Programme Sustainability and Value Added in the Cotton Economy

[email protected]

+91 99 5884 3258

Dr. Rossitza Krueger

Project Manager India

GIZ India

[email protected]

+91 98 2029 2626

Rajeev Ahal

Director Natural Ressource Management

GIZ India

Contact details

Thank You!

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Climate-Smart Organic Cotton Programme Tanzania

Funded by:Implemented by:

Increasing resilience for small scale cotton farmers through diversification and landscape approaches

Programme Setup – the partners


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▪ Consortium Leader and coordination ofprogramme

▪ Advice on extension services, AMCOStraining, policy/advocacy, certification andinternational market linkages

▪ Landscape and community-level planning

▪ Village Savings and Lending Associations(VSLA) and local market linkages

▪ Policy/advocacy and support to districtlevel planning

▪ Extension services to more than 30,000farmers in Good Organic AgriculturalPractices (GOAP), and Integrated Pestand Production Management (IPPM)

▪ Organisation of the organic certificationprocess

▪ Field research for the official adoption ofproduction and application of botanicalpesticides produced in Tanzania

Project Regions:

▪ Singida Region

Iramba, Mkalama, Ikungi, Manyoniand Singida districts

▪ Simiyu Region

Bariadi, Busega, Maswa andMeatu districts


Climate-Smart Organic Cotton Programme Tanzania 07 October 2021

Ginnery

AMCOS

VSLA

CSA/GAP

IPPM/CA

Cooperative

Business

School

Savings and

Business

Opportunities

Community

Planning

Reforestation

Water

Management

MoCU

Bio-pesticide

Research

TARI

Ukiriguru

District-planning

for climate

resilience

Village/WARD

committees

District

Councils

National

ministries

National CSA

Guideline

International

Marketing

Policy Push Pull

Local

Marketing

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Organic

Certification


Thank You!

Asanteni Sana!

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Contact

[email protected]

T +255 744 611 072

Hendrik Buermann

Project Director

[email protected]

T +255 787 637 412

Leonard Mtama

Project Coordinator

[email protected]

T +255 742 492 216

Annet Witteveen

Country Director Helvetas Tanzania

28 May 2020 Organic Cotton Programme Tanzania

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Time for discussion!

1. How can the economic sustainability of diversification and

landscape approaches be strengthened for smallholders?

2. Which role should the private sector

play in landscape approaches?

Guiding questions:

Wrap-up of discussion

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Importance to create

business cases for

holistic approaches for

all supply chain actors!

Diversification should

be applied along the

whole range from seed

variety (genetic)

diversification to

ecosystem/landscape

level.

Cotton within

landscape approaches

plays an important role

as cash crop and often

opens access for

farmers to agricultural

inputs also for other

crops!

Good (business)

partnerships are

needed to increase

market linkages for

multiple crops within a

landscape!A good choice of

agronomically suitable

production patterns at farm

level is the base for sound

diversified prodcution at

landscape level.

Economics

Insights of

diversification


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Comprehensive Governance

structure within a landscape

is of utmost importance for

sustainable and long-lasting

approaches, as shown in

Tanzania Example.

Strong and coordinated

Private sector engagement

can help to initiate policy

change for more holistic and

diversified approaches.

Use pull from private sector!

Private sector (brands)

should sharpen their

awareness on holistic

approaches and look beyond

their key commodity.

Stakeholder aspects:

Private sector and Governance

A good choice of

agronomically suitable

production patterns at farm

level is the base for sound

diversified production at

landscape level.


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Mitigation and carbon

sequestration within the

supply chain (insetting)-

instead of offsetting - offers

good chances to partner with

local stakeholders and

farmers.

How to integrate

landscape approaches

in the context of VSS?

Refer to BCI ATLA

project experiences!

Private Sector questions the

number of Standards.

Furthermore it will not be easy

to pass landscape related

communication to end

consumers.

The use of „payment for

ecosystem services“ as part

of a sustainable business

case has still to be proven,

due to higher costs of

implementation.

Implementation tools

Role of

Standards

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