This document discusses adapting the cocoa sector to climate change through climate-smart cocoa value chains. It recommends mapping the impact gradient of climate change over time to understand risks. It also suggests convening value chain actors based on exposure to identify and prioritize relevant climate-smart agricultural practices through cost-benefit analyses. This would construct exposure-specific portfolios of priority practices for different investors to develop tailored climate-smart investment plans. The document also shows impact zones for climate change in Ivory Coast's cocoa sector.

1. Adapting the cocoa sector to climate change
Climate smart cocoa value
chains

2. Climate change impacts

3. Map the impact gradient to understand
the risk of climate change over time
Convene value chain actors
along the exposure gradient
Identify and prioritize relevant CSA
practices by exposure gradient and
analyze costs and benefits.
Construct exposure specific portfolios
of priority CSA practices for different
investors
Areas that transition from one suitability
type to another but remain suitable
Prioritized menus of CSA
options with cost-benefit
Today
2050s2030
Tailored CSA
investment plans
Locations where climate
characteristics will not
fundamentally change
Production in these zones will
likely become unviable and other
crops should be considered
Mainstreaming Climate-Smart Cocoa

4. Impact zones in Ivory Coast

5. Impact zones in Ivory Coast

6. Impact zones in Ivory Coast
HEAT
Higher precipitation
Uncertain precipitation

7. 6th European Cocoa Forum, 15&16 September 2016, Croatia
C. Bunn, Mark Lundy, Fabio Castro et al.
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