Overview of the CTA project: ''Climate change solutions that work for farmers'' in ACP countries. by Dr Ajayi, Oluyede Senior Programme Coordinator, Agricultural and Rural Development Policy at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)

1.
Olu
Ajayi
Wageningen, The Netherlands
5-7 August 2015
Climate Change Solutions that Work
for Farmers

2. Background/Why the call?
• Climate change (CC) is an increasingly important issue in policy
discuss at different policy levels-
• Much info about challenges and impacts of cc on agriculture
• CC impacts on food security now, no longer a hypothetical future.
• Worsen vulnerability of food insecure populations
• Distribution of impact- poorer communities, groups with lowest capacity to
adapt, but have highest need for food security (many in ACP)
• Long term impact is costly- compromise of agriculture and ecosystems
e.g. adaptation costs @ several $$$$ billion/year (Nelson et al. 2009; Wheeler
and Tiffin 2009)

3. Evidence
and
case
studies
on
CSA
• So
much
informa-on
about
challenges
of
cc
&
impacts
on
agriculture,
...but
less
on
solu-ons
to
the
challenges
• From
“searching”
to
“finding”
• Sample
of
ques-ons
from
devpt
agencies,
policy
makers
– Where
are
the
solu-ons?
– Which
ones
have
been
successfully
implemented?
– Where?
To
what
extent?
What
are
the
impacts?
– Show
me
the
evidence!
• Global
Donor
PlaIorm
mee-ng-­‐
-me
about
T,
T,
T
?

4. 1. Proven solutions the help farmers respond to the
challenges of cc; any hidden rare gems in ACP?:
• Farmers’ practices
• Policies & mechanisms for financing climatic risks
• Successful deployment of ICT tools
2. Understand their impacts- where, extent, drivers?
3. Scaling up to wider farmer communities and various
stakeholders
Objec6ves
of
the
Call

5. • Call launched late 2014 focusing on ACP
• Over email 300 inquiries
• 221 substantive applications
• Responses from universities, NGOs, CGIAR, FAO
• Europe, Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia and
Americas
The
Call
and
the
Response

6. • Different screening phases- content & technical
compliance
• Panel from EU & ACP regions-technical & user
perspectives including farmers working on climate change
• Huge interests to support proven solutions- CTA new
strategic thrust, donors, GACSA
• This week... Reality check- show us the evidence?
Where
are
we
in
the
process?

7. • Progress
of
case
studies
&
peer-­‐review
to
highlight
their
prac-cal
relevance
as
cc
solu-ons
for
smallholder
farmers
• Iden-fy
drivers
of
success/adop-on
&
lessons
for
scaling
up
the
most
promising
cases
• Iden-fy
key
communica-on
materials
(synthesis
&
book)
and
communica-on
forums
(GFIA,
CoP21,
etc)
to
inform
stakeholders
given
CTA
new
accredita-on
in
UNFCCC
• Iden-fy
key
partners,
type
of
partnership
arrangements
&
resource
mobiliza-on
to
scale-­‐up
the
most
promising
&
proven
cases
The
next
three
days

8. Merci
Thank
you
CTA's
new
strategic
plan
2011-­‐2015