EIT Climate-KICSustainable Land UseAgrifood – Climate-Smart Agriculture and FoodPan Pan – Deputy Director, CSA Flagship ManagerCatherine Laurent-Polz – Portfolio Manager30/10/2018
Who is Climate-KIC?Urban Transitions
Education
Sustainable Productions SystemsMaterials production
Regional economies
Industry emissions
Food value chains
Forests in integrated landscapes
Sustainable Land UseClimate-smart agriculture
Climate-risk information
Decision Metrics and FinanceDecision metrics
Climate finance
Networked alumni
Entrepreneurship
Capacity building
Retrofit & clean decentralised energy
Blue-green infrastructure
Mobility
Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest public-private partnership for climate innovation. It is one of three Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) created in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an EU body.
It funds and supports innovation and entrepreneurship activities for creating economically viable products and services addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Its activities are driven by 3climate change themes and 2 cross-cutting themes:
End-to-end innovation
IDEATIONSuccessful innovationstarts with a good idea
ACCELERATION & DEMONSTRATIONDefining and developing a climate product or service
SCALINGWidely adopted climate innovation
IMPACT knowledge and insights captured to reinforce learning
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTLearning for innovation and innovation for learningCapacity-building programmes for students and professionals
Relevant activities:Climathon, Climate Launchpad, Pathfinder (for partners), Greenhouse (for students)
Relevant activities:Accelerator, Partner Accelerator, Demonstrator (for partners)
Relevant activities:Scaler (for partners)
Relevant activities:Journey, Master Label, Pioneers, Certified Professionals
Number of partnersdistributed by sector16157
62
33
Higher Education
Business
Research
Cities, Regions & NGOs
EIT Climate-KIC across Europe
EIT Climate-KIC countries
EIT Regional Innovation Scheme countries (RIS)
What is CSA and Agrifood?Climate-smart agriculture (CSA), as defined and presented by the UN FAO is an approach to develop and operationalize the technical, policy and investment conditions to achieve sustainable agricultural development within the explicit parameters of climate change.
It integrates the 3 dimensions of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental) by jointly addressing food security and climate challenges with 3 main pillars: 1. sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes; 2. adapting and building resilience to climate change; 3. reducing and/or removing greenhouse gases emissions, where possible.
Food and agriculture (Agrifood) is a $7.8 trillion industry, responsible for over 40% of labor force and contributes to one of third of world’s GHG emissions. It is a complex industry, including a wide range of processes, operations, and roles as food travels from “farm to fork.”
In the past, food and agriculture were often viewed as separate industries but the interconnectedness of the supply chain demands a more holistic view of our food and agriculture system. Therefore increasingly, agrifood is being viewed as a single industry that spans the value chain from farm to fork. This holistic approach is needed to break the current silos and link the diverse actors along the entire agrifood value chain.
Sustainable Land Use – Focus areas
Forestry and landscapes
Forestry & Wood Value Chains
FoodValue Chains
Climate-Smart Agriculture
Integrated Land Use
INTEGRATED LANDSCAPES
AGRI-FOOD
WWF Landscape Finance Forum
Capacity andEcosystem Building
Food Security and Systems
Biomass and Forestry Management
Innovation and Technical Assistance
Agtech and Agri-finance
Deforestation and Carbon Sequestration
Wood Construction and Circular Economy
Cities and Surrounding Territories
Traceability Tools and Certification
Food Waste and Circular Economy
Foodtech and Traceability
Theory of Change –Impact Goal -> Outcomes -> Outputs -> Inputs (Activities)
Forestry and landscapes
Food Value ChainsCSA Booster
Goal 4Increase, by an order of
magnitude, the application of innovative climate-smart agriculture solutions (CSA) in
Europe
Goal 6Enhance carbon sequestration
by forests and other natural and managed ecosystems while
substituting carbon in downstream value chains
Goal 5Instigate transformation of
climate-damaging food value chains and significantly improve
the climate resilience of food supply
Climate-Smart Agriculture Forestry and Landscapes
Leverage Points
TECHNOLOGYFINANCE (FUNDING AND ACCOUNTING)MARKET STRUCTURES (ALTERNATIVE MODELS/VALUES)POLICY (REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS)ORGNIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE (DECISION MAKERS)INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGESKILLSINDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR
Outcomes (2022)Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)• Link diverse actors across the agriculture and food value chain by creating a multi-stakeholder open
innovation platform, growing local ecosystems and activating behavioral and dietary change.• Catalyze the application and adoption of CSA innovations via identification, assessment,
implementation and scaling of CSA solutions. • Accelerate and de-risk CSA investments by creating data analytics and tools, developing blended
insurance and financing mechanisms, and blending climate and agriculture finance.
Food value chains• Enhance food security by improving resilience and
sustainability of food systems and harmonizing food policies• Enable circular economy development by reducing, recovering
and reusing food waste for biomaterials and bioenergy• Catalyze food technology innovations by substituting climate
damaging products, ensuring better nutrition and creating stronger links between production and consumption
Programme overview and approach
We act as both an innovation platform and an accelerator where we bring together a multi-stakeholder ecosystem of public and private sector partners to incubate innovative and sustainable agrifood solutions, facilitate and catalyse their adoption and scaling, and to accelerate and de-risk investments into the sector across Europe and beyond. We act as facilitator, matchmaker, and community manager and builder.
To date, we work with over 70 Climate-KIC and non-KIC partners, and have activities across Europe in all major regions.
Pillar 1. Systemic change platforms• Ongoing capacity and ecosystem-building projects• Building infrastructure and channels for delivery and scaling, and strategic “knowledge assets”
Pillar 2. Innovation project portfolio• Impact, scalability and sustainability focused• To explore and validate new concepts and business models• To apply, co-create, pilot and scale solutions in context
Pillar 1 – Systemic change
1. Open Innovation Platform • Solution identification, assessment and matchmaking• Facilitate knowledge sharing and co-creation• Building and connecting user communities
2. Education and training • First multi-lingual CSA MOOC (EN, FR, DE, CN)• 3 modules: intro, wine, dairy VC. Precision ag. next • Customized content/formats for targeted audiences
3. Regional CSA hubs development • Regional and local stakeholder engagement and fundraising• Current CSA hubs in France, Italy, Netherlands and Nordic focused on
region specific themes led by local partners• Potential hubs in CEE and Africa
Pillar 2 – Innovation project portfolio
Food value chains
1. Food security and system• Multi-stakeholder collaboration for risk
mitigation among SC actors• Harmonizing and improving food policies• Citizen-driven approach for urban food system
2. Food waste• Reducing food waste by enabling circular
economy• Consumer awareness and education• Valorisation of industrial food waste for
biomaterials and bioenergy
3. Foodtech for better nutrition• Development of alternative proteins – plant,
insect, acquaculture• Solutions to enhance SC traceability and
transparency
Climate-smart Agriculture
1. Agriculture technology• Soil efficiency and resilience (inputs,
biologicals, fertilizer)• Farm tech (digital, precision agriculture,
robotics, etc.)• Novel farming systems (urban ag, alt.
protein, etc.)
2. Agrifinance and insurance• Data and risk analytics, MEL tools• Risk-sharing insurance mechanisms• Blended and “climate-agrifinance” facilities
3. Innovation and Technical Assistance• Value chain analysis (VCA) • Business modelling and co-design• Policy analysis and design
Key Projects/Programmes
GeoFootprintCSA Booster
Flagship
WINnERS Feed-X
CSA innovation platform and accelerator with a multi-stakeholder ecosystem approach to incubate, apply and scale CSA solutions
Platform to source and scale alternative feed ingredients for aquaculture to shift 10% of the global feed industry towards more sustainable production.
Providing micro-loan and index-based micro-
insurance against crop loss to smallholder
farmers in Africa using climate risk analytics and
collaboration with multiple VC actors
including regional banks, DFIs, traders, and retailers
Development of a web-based platform for environmental footprint accounting for land use and agriculture leveraging GIS data and LCA
CSA Project highlightsDanone Fruit Value Chain
Pilot testing new guidelines for climate-smart fruit production, pest resistance, genomics and soil management
6,700 farmers
Dairy Value Chain
Agritech startup using greenhouse lab tech to grow animal feed cost-effectively in arid environments, reducing water use by up to 99%
Up to 99% less water
Barley-IT
Reducing fertiliser &
GHGs
Cool Farm ToolGlobal calculator and impact assessment tool of farm-level GHG emissions, with metrics for biodiversity + water
15,000Farm
footprints
DryGro
20% GHG reductions
Developing methodologies for cutting dairy sector GHG emissions by 20% across Netherlands’ €12bn dairy supply chain by 2020
Crop modelling tech enabling farmers to maximize nitrogen absorption in malting barley, reducing fertiliser inputs and N2O emissions.
Remote SensingUsing remote sensing data to measure GHG emissions across company assets to evaluate insurance risk, land use efficiency & agricultural risk
Measuring climate risk
Our Impact
70+leading partners
€3mclimate funding
leveraged
>10new/improved productsand services developed
€2minvestment attracted
to start-ups
>20jobs created
> 5’000MOOC
participants
10+innovative
start-ups supported
Our Partnership Community
Core Partners