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. Climate Smart Agriculture:
A Case Study in Sustainable Intensification
from Brazil
Erin Myers Madeira
Senior Advisor, The Nature Conservancy

2. Essentials for Sustainable Landscapes
1. Demand Signals
2. Supportive regulatory frameworks and governance
3. Technical assistance
4. Financial Incentives
5. Involvement of communities and stakeholders

3. São Félix do Xingu Municipality
Forest Cover 2001

5. Key developments in Brazil
Supportive policies and governance
• National remote sensing program to monitor
deforestation
• Increased enforcement of compliance with Forest
Code
• CAR creates accountability at the property-level for
deforestation

6. Key developments in Brazil
Financial incentives
• “Black List” of worst deforesting municipalities
places financial penalties on municipality and
creates urgency

7. Technical Assistance
• Practices that improve productivity
• Register properties in CAR
• Cost effective
• US$ 0.10/ha to set up; Annual cost is 10% of set-up
• TNC registered 32,000 properties in CAR

8. Meaningful engagement of all stakeholders
• Commission to end
illegal deforestation
• Technical assistance
for small holders

9. Sao Felix moving to sustainable development
trajectory
• Deforestation
reduced 75%
• 87% of properties
registered in CAR
• Technical assistance
• Improved livelihoods
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10. Opportunities for intensification
• Increasing productivity to 1.25 head/ha could free
up 20M ha for crop production
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11. Private sector collaboration is key for scaling
• Piloting supply chain sustainability
• Important of extension service networks

12. How to scale up?
• 80% Latin America herd in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico
and Argentina
• Demand Signals
• Supportive regulatory frameworks and governance
• Technical assistance
• Financial Incentives
• Involvement of communities and stakeholders

13. Thank you
emadeira@tnc.org