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Climate-Smart Smallholder Products: a new product label?

Submitted by Cecilia on 14th December 2011
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Written by Jeff Brez, IFAD. This post has also been published on the Agricultureday blog.

At Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) at COP 17 in Durban, IFAD teamed up with Cafédirect and Fairtrade Africa to offer a learning event on “Getting Climate-Smart Smallholder Products to Market.” The case study was based on an IFAD public private partnership in São Tomé and Principe with the Government, communities, Cafédirect and other private sector companies. Read more about the project, the objectives of the event, the moderator and speakers. The two main questions posed by moderator extraordinaire Matthew Wyatt of DFID, were simple. Can smallholders offer climate-smart products? Will consumers pay for them? He led a lively and focused discussion – thanks Matthew! Read more »

Building Momentum for Climate-Smart Agriculture

Submitted by Cecilia on 12th December 2011
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Building Momentum for Climate-Smart Agriculture. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT)

Written by Nathan Russell, CIAT. This story reposted from the Agriculture Day blog.

Before the closing session of Agriculture and Rural Development Day in Durban, South Africa, a high-Level Panel of experts charted the way forward with climate-smart agriculture. Summarized below are their main conclusions from a discussion facilitated by Laurie Goering, editor of the Thomas Reuters Foundation’s AlertNet Climate, which acted as media sponsor for the day. Read more »

Adapt or die, say small farmers

Submitted by Cecilia on 12th December 2011
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Written by Caitlin Corner-Dolloff, Oxford ECI. This blog post has also been published on the Agricultureday blog.

Adapt or die is a resonating reality that is coming out of Agriculture and Rural Development Day and many of the COP17 side events. Farmers, especially subsistence farmers in Africa, have already started adapting. A coordinated effort on adaptation initiatives is needed. The challenge then is figuring out what information is needed to make adaptation decisions. This inevitably provokes the questions of whose knowledge in included and whose perspectives are predominant. Read more »

With 1 billion hungry, climate leaders must not fail

Submitted by Cecilia on 12th December 2011
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By Rachel Kyte, World Bank. This blog entry has also been published on the Agricultureday blog.

Over 500 farmers representatives, scientists and development practitioners were out in force today at the third Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) in Durban. They are determined to put agriculture on the COP 17 agenda.

Their arguments are clear:

Any serious effort to reduce green house gasses must include agriculture. And COP 17 is the chance for Africa to shape the agenda and establish an agriculture work program that is informed by science and covers adaptation and mitigation. And even for some `No agriculture, No deal’.

And today these voices are being heard. Read more »

Making climate smart agriculture happen

Submitted by Cecilia on 12th December 2011
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Originally posted on the FAO Climate blog. Also published on the agricultureday.org blog.

FAO led a learning event looking at what tools and policies are required to bring food security, adaptation and mitigation together at the Agriculture and Rural Development Day taking place in Durban, South Africa on the sidelines of UN climate change talks COP17. Read more »

Agricultural adaptation through local participation

Submitted by Cecilia on 12th December 2011
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Workshop in Kombewa, Kenya: Agricultural adaptation through local participation.

Written by Caitlin Corner-Dolloff, Oxford ECI. This story was originally published on Agricultureday.org.

Farmers, researchers, and government officials alike recognize that adaptation to climate change must take place now. But how can this be done most effectively? It was clear from the ARDD learning event on lessons from the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program, funded by the Canada’s IDRC and UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), that one of the biggest challenges is the need for climate change adaptation solutions to be context specific. A one size fits all approach to policy will not work. This has led many researchers, practitioners and funders to focus on local participatory approaches to adaptation planning and building adaptive capacity. Read more »

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