1. Community Markets for Conservation: Addressing Climate Change with Landscape Based Approaches
CCAFS & FAO
Smallholder Mitigation: Whole Farm and Landscape Accounting Presenter: John Fay 27 October 2011
2. COMACO Ltd.
Products that conserve: turning poachers into farmers and poor farmers into better farmers
Supported by:
Community Markets for Conservation
Presentation Acknowledgement and sincere thanks to Dr. Dale Lewis and the entire COMACO Team
3. Farm practices
Crop divers.
Soil improv.
Increased yields
Small-scale farmer Trade benefits
Dividend
Commodity price
Conservation incentives
Storage
Product manufact.
Marketing
Sales
Business
Transaction
Trading centers Sales centers
at local depots
COMACO Model: A Dynamic Value-chain Process
5. COMACO CARBON APPOACH
COMACO is linking to the carbon markets to increase sustainability through two distinct streams
Household products that reduce environmental degradation
Launching COMACO high efficiency cookstove project in 2012 in partnership with Shared Value Africa
100% commercial approach
Agriculture, Forestry, Other Land Use (AFOLU) Approach
Using a landscape based approach
Requires additional donor support
6. COMACO CARBON APPOACH
Agriculture, Forestry, Other Land Use (AFOLU) Approach
Land use practice interventions driven by COMACO:
Agroforestry including Gliricidia & Faidherbia Albida: CDM Standard AR-AMS0004 version 2
Minimum / no till conservation agriculture
Modeling approach based on annual survey
Decrease in fertiliser usage: suppressed demand?
89 kg Avg. SSF vs. 400 kg minimum service level
Modeling approach based on annual survey
Exploring REDD through Community Conservation Areas, currently under development
7. COMACO CARBON APPOACH
MRV based on annual COMACO farmer survey
Approach fully integrated into overall COMACO model: participation & aggregation, CMS, geo-coordinates, integrity
2010: 17,999 COMACO farmers surveyed
2011: target of 45,300 COMACO farmers surveyed
Farmer Card
Annual Group Compliance Assessment
Subset sample verified by independent auditor
Emission reductions based on conservative default benchmarks (modeling approach) regarding conservation farming adoption, fertiliser reduction and agroforestry