7.2.4 Assessing progress in VGCE
- 1. CHANGING THE DRIVERS – BRING FARMERS ONBOARD TO MANAGE CLIMATE CHANGE Tiina Huvio – AgriCord’s Climate Task Group – FFD – FAO Forest & Farm Facility COP24- EU Side Event- Agriculture’s Future, delivering net zero emissions – trade, consumption, smallholders, value chains 7th of December 2018
- 2. FARMING IS A RISKY BUSINESS Living with weather pattern – adjusting your actions, trusting your knowledge, legacy and traditions How far you can adjust without extra resources, knowledge, investments or flexible finance Risks known and unknown – burden of multiple risks Boost needed to feed the growing population (~50% increase in food production by 2050) LOOKING FOR RESILIENCE – INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY © TRIAS / ISABEL CORTHIER
- 3. WHO WE ARE – AGRICORD MISSION : promote and help to build strong, democratic, inclusive and professional farmers’ organizations and cooperatives and in that way to spur development. VISION: A world with a productive family farm sector able to feed the world.
- 4. AGRICORD– FARMERS FIGHTING POVERTY THEORY OF CHANGE OUTREACH
- 5. Climate Resilient Landscapes and Improved Livelihoods The Forest and Farm Facility –Phase II 2018-2022 Multi-donorfunded partnership:FAO,IIED,IUCN&AgriCord StrengtheningForestandFarmProducerOrganizations(FFPOS) asprimaryagentsofchangeatscale Integrated landscapeapproach Support FFPOsto deliverSDGsfocusingon: Climate resilience Inclusive valuechains,sustainablebusinessincubation Women, youth andIPs Socialand cultural services Links to investment Ensureenabling policies & Cross sectoral processes Peerto peerlearning & capacity sharing 7 core countries & 7 network countries, + regional & global SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5,8, 12, 13, 15, 16,17 Paris Agreement
- 6. Smallholder farmers are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change Farmers’ resilience towards climate change is dependent on: There are two pathways: Combining agriculture, forestry and agroforestry with agricultural practices can enhance resilience and contribute to mitigation. access to knowledge Technology (natural, financial, material) Resources institutions value chains WHY WE NEED TO CHANGE THE DRIVERS Author: TRIAS / ISABEL CORTHIER reliance on natural resources poverty and marginalization Improving agricultural productivity and efficiency forest land-use change
- 7. Researchers and practitioners have recognized the role of farmers’ organisations in increasing small-scale producers’ resilience (IIED, 2012) BUT… Until now, the role of farmers’ organisations have been massively underestimated by international climate policy makers, national governments and the private sector Farmers’ organizations capacity Access to services Financial capital & infrastructures Access to markets Sustainable access to natural resources Orientation in the market Higher and stable incomes Participation in innovation WHY WE NEED TO CHANGE THE DRIVERS
- 8. Distribution of total external development funding related to climate change (OECD, 2016) Even if agriculture and forestry have a key position in NDCs and NAPAs in the majority of developing countries, the share of climate funding reaching Smallholder Farmers is very low. Less than 3-5% of ODA/Climate funding. 3% 4% 5% 12% 14% 15% 17% 30% Developmental Food Aid/Food Security Assistance Disaster Prevention & Preparedness Others Water Supply & Sanitation General Environment Protection Agriculture & Forestry WHY WE NEED TO CHANGE THE DRIVERS
- 9. CHANGING DRIVERS – FARMERS FIGHTING POVERTY - CLIMATE THEORY OF CHANGE CHANGE NEEDS TO BE NOW AND REQUIRES ATTENTION TO POVERTY REDUCTION, ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION – IPCC SPECIAL REPORT 15 (2018)
- 10. Strong FFPOS at landscape scale improve resilience: ▪Farmer organizations assist to maintain, regenerate, restore forests and plant trees at significant scale, transforming landscapes as part of productive rural economies ▪Multiple products, from different levels of the forest helps increase nutrition, food security and income generation. ▪A complex mosaic of management systems can improve ecological resilience. ▪Diversity of plants and types of enterprises can help spread risk against disease, climate fluctuation and sudden changes in price and demand. ▪Multiple layers of FPO organizations (local, regional, national, international) can provide different kinds and complementarity of services, negotiate policy and business hierarchies
- 11. © Mauri Kunnas 2018 Don’t leave Santa without snow!