Strategic Planning for Mitigation Programs in Agriculture:

Learning from Recent Experiences

Pablo Benitez, Ph.D.

Senior Economist

World Bank Institute, World Bank

CCAFS/FAO Expert Workshop on NAMAs: National mitigation planning

and implementation in agriculture

Rome, 16-17 July 2012

CSA: An integrated approach to food security, poverty and climate change

Agricultural Carbon for Smallholder Farmers in Kenya, participatory approaches leading to increased farm productivity in 45,000 hectares and 60,000 farmers. Ethiopia - Humbo Regeneration

Project resulted in increased production of wood and tree products, such as honey and fruit, which contribute to household budgets.

Silvo Pastoral Approaches in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Prevent erosion and increase productivity in a program supported by PES.

Using Weather Index Insurance to Improve

Relief Efforts in the Event of Drought in

Mexico

Increasing and more diverse project experiences Time to move from projects to National Programs

Integrated planning and a landscape approach

Consider a broad range of Mitigation Opportunities

Improve Resilience through Different

Methods

Focus on Institutions and Participatory Approaches

Strategic Planning for CSA Programs

Establish Solid MRV Systems

Use New Assessment Tools

Address Financing Challenges

What have we learned from recent and ongoing

initiatives?

Integrated planning and a landscape approach

Consider a broad range of Mitigation Opportunities

Improve Resilience through Different

Methods

Focus on Institutions and Participatory Approaches

Strategic Planning for CSA Programs

Establish Solid MRV Systems

Use New Assessment Tools

Address Financing Challenges

Why a landscape approach?

1. Provides a way to scale up project-based initiatives into coordinated national programs or NAMAs.

2. Traditional economic sector approaches do not recognize interactions between: agriculture – forestry – water – energy conservation – settlements – infrastructure, etc.

3. Integrated Planning across landscapes helps to ensure that synergies are properly captured

Integrated planning and a landscape approach

Consider a broad range of Mitigation Opportunities

Improve Resilience through Different

Methods

Focus on Institutions and Participatory Approaches

Strategic Planning for CSA Programs

Establish Solid MRV Systems

Use New Assessment Tools

Address Financing Challenges

Promoting activities that increase carbon storage,

increase productivity, and are geared towards

improving soil fertility.

Reducing a variety of emissions from agriculture

such as nitrous oxygen from fertilizer application, livestock emissions and methane from

rice cultivation.

Integrated planning and a landscape approach

Consider a broad range of Mitigation Opportunities

Improve Resilience through Different

Interventions

Focus on Institutions and Participatory Approaches

Strategic Planning for CSA Programs

Establish Solid MRV Systems

Use New Assessment Tools

Address Financing Challenges

Diversifying income sources and genetic traits of crops to

help farmers hedge against an uncertain climate.

Developing sound risk insurance and risk management strategies as well as resilience building strategies including safety nets that

reach the poorest farmers.

Promoting adaptive management that

disseminates timely climate information to farmers and

tailors techniques to shifting climatic conditions.

Integrated planning and a landscape approach

Consider a broad range of Mitigation Opportunities

Improve Resilience through Different

Interventions

Focus on Institutions and Participatory Approaches

Strategic Planning for CSA Programs

Establish Solid MRV Systems

Use New Assessment Tools

Address Financing Challenges

Institutional issues are one of the Underlying Causes for Success and Failure

Carefully planned institutional agreements to define

land use, carbon ownership rights, and benefit-sharing are crucial for project success

Very Important: Get the priorities right – focus project

design on farmers’ interest!

Integrated planning and a landscape approach

Consider a broad range of Mitigation Opportunities

Improve Resilience through Different

Interventions

Focus on Institutions and Participatory Approaches

Strategic Planning for CSA Programs

Establish Solid MRV Systems

Use New Assessment Tools

Address Financing Challenges

National Approaches and/or NAMAs require careful attention to baselines or reference levels,

monitoring, reporting and verification. Build on lessons from BioCF, including new

methodologies. Capacity building at an early stage is crucial in

order to have solid MRV systems in place at the time of program implementation.

Integrated planning and a landscape approach

Consider a broad range of Mitigation Opportunities

Improve Resilience through Different

Interventions

Focus on Institutions and Participatory Approaches

Strategic Planning for CSA Programs

Establish Solid MRV Systems

Use New Assessment Tools

Address Financing Challenges

Tools for environmental and economic analysis are essential elements for

planning

Integrated planning and a landscape approach

Consider a broad range of Mitigation Opportunities

Improve Resilience through Different

Interventions

Focus on Institutions and Participatory Approaches

Strategic Planning for CSA Programs

Establish Solid MRV Systems

Use New Assessment Tools

Address Financing Challenges

Land-Use Based carbon mitigation programs can face large investment

barriers. Impact of carbon finance on the project

“cash flow” is limited. Important to achieve measurable

productivity and income gains as to justify investment.

Private sector investment has been modest so far, important to increase

attractiveness of agricultural systems to investors

CSA Program Planning: How can we help?

MAIN is a multinational initiative to support the

design and implementation of Low Emission

Development Strategies (LEDS) and Nationally

Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in

developing countries through regionally based dialogues and sustainable

practitioner networks.

MAIN Identifies and highlights the most

successful experiences in developing and

implementing high-impact, greenhouse gar

reducing policies

MAIN uses these lesson to assist developing countries

in refining their national policies and implementation frameworks through peer-to-peer learning, dialogue, and web-based exchanges.

Regional dialogues have taken place in LAC and Asia. Experiences on agriculture

will be shared.

1. NAMA Dialogues

CSA Program Planning: How can we help?

2. Learning Platform and Knowledge Sharing

E-Learning Courses: Current and Planed

Webinar Series: Stay tuned

Face to Face Training: Upon Demand

1. NAMA Dialogues

Knowledge Products

CSA Planning: How can we help?

What are your capacity building needs?