Agriculture Advantage 2.0 at COP24 | CSA investment advantage: Climate-smart agriculture - identifying the best bets
Join leaders in CSA to take stock of cutting edge CSA implementation initiatives and identify successful recipes for scaling.
Objective
To demystify climate-smart agriculture (CSA) by identifying CSA best bets and discussing proven state-of-the art approaches to design and operationalize climate-smart agriculture investment plans.
Overview
Agriculture is likely to be the most affected sector by the impacts of climate change. Many developing countries included agriculture and land use change as an adaptation priority and also a mitigation opportunity in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Positive climate outcomes from the agriculture sector in both areas require the identification of climate-smart, context specific and investment-ready, opportunities for farmers, investors and policy makers.
Promising climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices exist and lessons have been learnt in recent years that can support decision-making to foster the agricultural transformation needed to address climate change. However, many decision-makers still struggle identifying the best bet CSA interventions in their own context.
The objective of this side event is to demystify CSA presenting practical and cutting edge CSA prioritization processes that have proven successful in over 30 countries and used by government officials, development organizations, researchers, the private sector and civil society, in order to open up opportunities for scaling them up.
Tentative program
Speaker | Agenda | Duration |
Malik Amin Aslam, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Climate Change, Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan | Welcome remarks | 5 mins |
Tobias Baedeker, World Bank and Godefroy Grosjean, Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | Launch global synthesis report on CSA profiles - Bringing the concept of climate-smart agriculture to life: Insights from CSA profiles in over 30 countries across Latin America, Africa and Asia | 10 mins |
Panel: Solutions to operationalize CSA investments and mobilize funding for realizing a food systems transformation Moderator: Evan Girvetz, Senior Scientist, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | ||
David Radcliffe, Consultant on ASAP programme, DFID | Insights from IFAD ASAP programme in operationalizing CSA and designing interventions for rural transformation. | 4 min |
Atiq Rahman, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies | The Bangladesh Climate Smart Investment Plan: Identifying best bet CSA investment packages and understanding their long-term impacts for policy planning | 4 min |
Liva Kaugure, Natural Resources Officer, FAO | Overview of successful CSA prioritization interventions from FAO | 4 min |
| Tasila Banda, National Project Coordinator, Ministry of National Development Planning, Zambia | Operationalization of CSA investments for The Zambia Integrated Forest Landscape Project | 4 min |
Riad Balaghi, Head, Agronomy and Agricultural Machinery Department, National Institute for Agronomic Research Morocco | CSA Investment Planning for supporting the Adaptation of African Agriculture Initiative | 4 min |
Giriraj Amarnath, Research Group Leader, Water, Risks and Disasters (WRD), International Water Management Institute and CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (IWMI/WLE) | Prioritization framework for land and water management interventions: experiences from Climate Smart Villages in South and Southeast Asia | 4 min |
Moderated discussion panel (all session parties to take part) | 20 mins | |
Moderated Q&A with audience | 25 mins | |
Evan Girvetz, Senior Scientist, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) | Final remarks and wrap ups | 10 mins |
This event is part of the Agriculture Advantage 2.0 event series at COP24, a collaborative effort of more than 15 organizations with the mission to transform agricultural development in the face of climate change. Click here to see the series of events at COP24.
Related resources:
- CIAT, CCAFS & World Bank report launched at the event: Bringing the concept of climate-smart agriculture to life
- CCAFS Profiles: CSA country profiles
- IWMI/WLE project brief: Developing pathways to climate resilience through the sustainable management of water, land and ecosystems
- IWMI/WLE research report: Business model scenarios and suitability: Smallholder solar pump-based irrigation in Ethiopia
- CCAFS briefing: A 6-part action plan to transform food systems under climate change, available in 2 formats: Exposure story with animated graphics | downloadable Info Note
- CCAFS working paper: Climate change mitigation and food loss and waste reduction: Exploring the business case
- CCAFS report: Measure the chain: tools for assessing GHG emissions in agricultural supply chains
- CCAFS webpage: Invest in climate change and agriculture
Find out what happened at the event:
- Summary blog: CSA Investment Advantage: Identifying best-bets
- Web recording (click "Join the event" to watch after the event)