Climate-Smart Agriculture

Presented by:

Irina Papusoi

Jimly Al Faraby

Seminar on Climate Change and Risk Management

May 6, 2013

What you can find here…

• Introduction

• Concept of CSA

• FAO contributions for CSA

• Landscape approach for CSA

• Farming system and practice

• Role of institution

• Discussion

Introduction

Let’s watch the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0V2xzEw44Y

What is CSA?

Sustainably increases productivity and

income

Strengthens resilience to climate change and

variability

Reduce agriculture’s contribution to climate

change

National Food Security and Development Goals

FAO’s Contribution to CSA

A landscape approach deals with large-scale processes in an integrated and

multidisciplinary manner, combining natural resources management with environmental and

livelihood considerations.

Landscape Approach in CSA

Why Landscape Approach in CSA?

• CSA practices and activities will be part of landscapes and compete against other land uses

helps to understand who participates in CSA and how they

may affected – positively and negatively.

• Farm level change is necessary, but not sufficient.

• Provides a way to scale up project-based initiatives into a coordinated national program.

Agriculture with

Natural resources

Agriculture with

Policies & Traditions

Agriculture with Natural Technologies & Markets

What can we do with Landscape Approach?

(1) climate-smart practices at the field and farm scale; (2) diversity of land use across the landscape to provide

resilience; and (3) management of land use interactions at a landscape scale

to achieve social, economic, and ecological impacts.

Think of:

Do:

Large enough to allow for the wide-reaching management within the specified landscape, BUT small enough to allow all

relevant stakeholders in the landscape to participate in decision-making and planning.

Farming System andPractices

Farming Systemand Practices

Crop Production System

Livestock Production Efficiency and Resilience

Fisheries and Aquacultures

Integrated System:• Conservation Agriculture• Agroforestry • Urban and peri-urban agriculture • Diversified and Integrated

Food - Energy Systems

Crop production

• Changing

→cropping patterns

→planting dates

→management techniques

• Diversifying crop systems

• Genetic resources and resilience

• Adequate use of ground water

• Managing organic matter

• Retaining soil moisture

• Avoiding soil erosion

• Increasing nutrient use efficiency

• Controlling salinization

• Pest and disease control

Crop production

Livestock production efficiency and resilience

Feed management

Reducing animal thermal

stress

Diversity of genetic

resources

Efficient management

of manure

Improved grassland

management

Control of animal

diseases

Increasing livestock water

productivity

Efficient and resilient Fisheries

Strategic location of aquaculture infrastructure

Selection of suitable stock (saline resistant species in zones facing sea level rise)

Switching to herbivorous or omnivorous species

Planting mangroves in aquaculture areas

Integrated systems

1. Minimal mechanical soil disturbance

2. Maintenance of a mulch of carbon

3. Rotations or sequences and associations of crops

Conservation Agriculture

• Home gardens with multipurpose trees and shrubs

• Intercropping of trees and crops (timber/cereal; annual crops/first years of forest or orchards plantations)

• Silvopasture

• Shelterbelts, windbreaks, fodder banks, live fences, etc

Agroforestry

Integrated systems

Integrated systems

• Crop and livestock systems: recycling

• Fish and crop

• Urban and Periurban Agriculture

• Integrated Food Energy System:

– Food and energy crops (trees)

– Use of by-products of one product to produce another one (e.g. Biogas)

– Solar, photovoltaic, geothermal, wind and water power

Role of Institutions

• Enabling policy environment• Production and dissemination of information• Climate data and information gaps• Dissemination mechanisms- Farmer Field

Schools (FFS)• Improve access coordination and collective

action• Support financing and insurance needs

Thank you