Presentation at: Meeting global food needs with lower emissions: IPCC report findings on climate change mitigation in agriculture A dialog among scientists, practitioners and financiers April 16, 2014 World Bank, Washington, DC Following the April 13th release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Mitigation, including Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU), this event will provided an opportunity to listen to IPCC authors summarize their findings and for all participants to join in a dialog with practitioners and financiers to discuss actionable steps for mitigation in the agricultural sector. The event was a joint effort of the World Bank, the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases, and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

1. GLOBAL FOOD NEEDS WITH LOWER EMISSIONS:
IPCC REPORT FINDINGS ON CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION IN
AGRICULTURE
A DIALOG AMONG SCIENTISTS, PRACTITIONERS AND
FINANCIERS, APRIL 16, 2014
NEETA HOODA
CARBON FINANCE UNIT
CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT

2. Kenya Sustainable Agricultural Land
Management Project: Proof of Concept
• Via Agroforestry promotes sustainable agricultural
land management practices on approximately
45,000 ha in the Nyanza and Western provinces of
Kenya.
• 20,304 smallholder farmers trained to date in
sustainable agricultural practices.
• 19,000 hectares with increased crop yields and
farm productivity to date.
• First-ever agricultural land management project to
issue carbon credits; 24,788 tons of CO2 issued
• $65,000 in carbon revenue for Kenyan farmers to
date.
• First methodology developed for carbon
accounting from agricultural land management.

3. Project Components
FED
VS&LASALM
SALM: Sustainable
Agricultural Land use
Management, Farmer
aggregation
FED: Farm Enterprise
Development
VS&LA: Village Savings and
Loan Associations
Extension

4. Win-win-win scenario
Market Access?

5. Zambia: Smallholder Support
EXAMPLE: COMACO IN ZAMBIA
- COMACO is stand-alone entity that coordinates
land use activities for over 40,000 farmers in
Zambia’s Luangwa Valley
- COMACO also provides technical training to
smallholders on improved land use practices
- COMACO coordinates smallholders into trading
units
- Commodities are traded along the value chain via
regional rural depots and 6 Conservation Trading
Centers, where they are processed and packaged
- COMACO partnering with private sectors such as
Cargill, Dunavant
- Multiple non-carbon benefits:
- food security
- economic development
- biodiversity

6. Lead farmer training: mobile schools
Producer group training: Better Life
Book, Farm Talk radio program
Producer Group Cooperative training
Advanced learning centres
Field days, demonstration plots
Seed growers, recoveries, storage
District advisory committees
supporting conservation compliance
Farm input shops
Consolidation of product processing
Full use of by-products into value-added
products
Outsourcing trucks, seasonal workforce
Increased warehouse storage
Batch processing and shrinkage controls
Automated and scaled-up processing
Regional export market penetration
Increased marketing
COMACO: The Process, The “Deal”

7. Lead farmer training: mobile schools
Producer group training: Better Life
Book, Farm Talk radio program
Producer Group Cooperative training
Advanced learning centres
Field days, demonstration plots
Seed growers, recoveries, storage
District advisory committees
supporting conservation compliance
Farm input shops
Consolidation of product processing
Full use of by-products into value-added
products
Outsourcing trucks, seasonal workforce
Increased warehouse storage
Batch processing and shrinkage controls
Automated and scaled-up processing
Regional export market penetration
Increased marketing
Building a producer –
consumer relationship around
a conservation promise
COMACO: The Process, The “Deal”COMACO: The Process, The “Deal”

8. Key learning points
• Small farmers can be our best stewards of the land if given the right
incentives
• Poverty and hunger pre-empt all efforts to achieve conservation
• Market forces drive land management practices, consumers drive
markets
• If consumers appreciate the conservation role of farmers through the
products they buy, incentives for conservation can work in the market
place
• No one entity can achieve conservation success alone – partnerships
are the key
• Africa is smothered with first world brands – need African brands and
investment ideas that keep Africa safe from environmental loss

9. Jurisdictional Approach to Landscape Management
• BioCarbon Fund is helping
to scale up integrated land
use management
(agriculture, REDD+, energy,
tourism) linked to local
livelihoods in the Luangwa
Valley, through results
based finance
• Program could support
sustainable commodity
supply of maize, groundnuts
and possibly cotton
• Aligning public-private
partnerships-strong support
from private sector entities
that would be an asset in
implementation