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Climate-Smart Smallholder Products: a new product label?
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
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
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
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
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 »
Climate Smart Agriculture is the term to remember
Written by David Lansley and Kristin Donaldson, World Vision Australia.
Spent Saturday at the Agriculture and Rural Development Day (that’s OK – I don’t mind giving up my Saturday for a good cause). The line-up of speakers was impressive, including Sir John Beddington, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, and World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development Rachel Kyte. Read more »
How smart is Climate Smart Agriculture?
By Brent Swallow, University of Alberta. Also read his follow up post Climate Smart Agriculture can be pretty smart
In 2010 a cluster of United Nations and pan-African organizations released a little book entitled Climate Smart Agriculture (PDF).
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) “seeks to increase sustainable productivity, strengthen farmers’ resilience, reduce agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon sequestration.” The little book and the concept are getting a lot of attention here at COP17. Read more »
Agriculture Raises Its Voice in UN Climate Change Negotiations
This blog post was written by Nathan Russell, CIAT, and first published on the Agriculture and Rural Development Day blog.
South Africa’s minister of agriculture, Tina Joemat-Petersson, knows a thing or two about negotiating tough issues. So, she had these words of advice for more than 500 representatives of leading agricultural institutions, as they gathered at Durban today to call for action on agriculture in the UN-sponsored climate change deliberations: Focus on a common message, bury your divisions, and stand together. Read more »
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