Part of the collection of posters developed for CGIAR Knowledge Day, Nairobi, 5 November 2013

1. CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future
Climate Change,
Agriculture & Food Security
value for money proposition
Theory of change:
Research Proposition
IDO4: Policies supporting climate-resilient agriculture
Working with partners to collect the evidence,
to change opinions and worldviews
$ 500 M =
•≥ 20 million additional farmers, at
least 50% women, have climatesmart practices
•Adaptive capacity enhanced of ≥ 10
million farmers, at least 50%
women, through advisories and
safety nets
•≥ 20% reduction of GHG emissions
intensities while enhancing food
security in ≥ 7 countries
•≥ 25 countries increased
investments in CSA by ≥ 50%
Before 2024
1. CSA Alliance, World Bank, IFAD, Climate Finance Orgs, Ministries
2. World Vision, National Meteorological Agencies, Disaster Risk
Agencies, Insurance Agencies
3. IIASA, FAO, Global Research Alliance for Agricultural GHGs
4. Food security and climate adaptation agencies, GFAR, CFS
Gender
Capacity
Building
Working with partners to
make it happen
1&3: CSA Alliance, World Bank, IFAD,
Green Climate Fund, Prolinnova, climate
finance orgs, ministries
2: World Vision, National
Meteorological Agencies, Disaster Risk
Agencies, Insurance Agencies
Working with partners to
understand what works
• Multiple local partners (e.g. CARE, Vi
Agroforestry, NARES, National
Insurance Company of India)
Flagship 1: Climate –smart
agricultural practices
Flagship 2: Climate –
information services and
climate-informed saftey nets
IDO1: Enhanced food security
Key
IDO2: Benefits to women and marginalised groups
IDO3: Enhanced adaptive capacity to climate risks
Flagship 3: Low emissions
development
IDO5: Reduced GHGs and forest conversion
Flagship 4: Policies and
institutions for climate
resilient food systems
Results:
Increased adaptative
capacity
SLOs
IDOs
Weather Index-Based Insurance (IWMI/IFPRI,
India)
•CCAFS is helping to develop new insurance
products where pay-outs are automatically
triggered when weather events pass a predetermined threshold
•12 million farmers already insured
Microdosing (ICRISAT, Zimbabwe)
•2013 study shows microdosing increases yields
by 60-80%, increases food security and
resilience, has a 30-35% adoption rate after
training, and offers an internal rate of return on
investment of > 40%
Benefits to women and
marginalised groups
Enhanced Food Security
Reducing Rural Poverty
Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and
Climate Change
•Report downloaded 30,000 times in 2012
•Report informed national legislation in Mexico
& Kenya, was used to validate Bangladesh’s
UNFCCC submission on agriculture
Climate change mitigation
Policies supporting climateresilient agriculture
More sustainable management of
natural resources
Increasing Food Security
Opportunities for the future:
Lessons Learned:
Lessons Learned:
(1) Operational Challenges
Climate change adaptation is all about building
adaptive capacity and resilience – these concepts
are extremely difficult to operationalise
(2) A controversial topic:
Climate change remains a controversial, highly
politicised subject – this limits the application of
evidence-based implementation.
Climate-smart villages: participatory testing grounds for
integrated approaches to climate variability
Decision-support tools: that allow policy makers to ask, and
answer, difficult “what if” questions about trade-offs among
food security, adaptation and mitigation
Climate services: partnering with national meteorological
services to produce and deliver locally relevant climate data
tailored to farmers’ needs
Gender:
Research
Capacity Building
• Climate change impacts women and men differently
• Has greater impact on marginalised groups
• Women & men have differential access to climate
services
• Many Climate Smart technologies negatively impact
women’s labour
Example: Substantial empirical
research on adoption of mitigation
technologies, access to institutions,
governance arrangements and social
differentiation undertaken across
several participating Centers.
Example: CCAFS has trained 1700
women leaders in Bihar, India on the
gender aspects of climate change,
agriculture & food security. Each will
go on to train 100 more women
when they return home.
Key contact: Bruce Campbell, CCAFS Program Director, b.campbell@cgiar.org