FOSTERING ENABLING POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS - Climate Smart Agriculture Conference

Brief session background

Much attention has been focused on the need to make agriculture more climate smart, both for mitigation and adaptation. A stockpile of CSA technologies and practices also already exists. Much less discussion has focused on how to operationalize CSA. This theme brings together analytical and operational perspectives to identify and overcome some key challenges to the implementation of CSA. One session deals with the enabling policy and institutional environment to provide the incentives for farmers and actors in the food system to make the food system more climate smart. The second beings together some more “hands-on” experiences on how operational challenges have been met in different countries.

Description

This theme focuses on the challenges to scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture. One set of challenges concerns the “what” needs to be done in terms of the enabling environment for supporting transformation. The second concern the “how to” overcome the implementation problems commonly encountered across countries. These sub-themes are discussed in the following two sessions.

Expected outcome

Ensure that lessons from CSA implementation and research which enable efforts to guide the formulation as well as effective implementation of climate-smart policies and institutions are incorporated in key national (NDC) and can inform and guide international (KJWA) processes.

Objectives

Identify priority actions to create the right enabling environment for CSA.
Identify operational mechanisms to effectively implement CSA.
Derive lessons on what works from cross-country experience.

Session lead(s)

World Bank
International Food Policy Research Institute

Tentative Agenda

Day 1

TIME	AGENDA
11:30 – 12:00	5 minute pitch for the session, Madhur Gautam, Lead Economist, Agriculture Global Practice, World Bank
14:00 – 14:10	Scene setting – Chair – Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Global Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank
14:10 – 14:25	Keynote presentation: Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Support: Aligning Food Security and Climate Protection Objectives. Will Martin, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
14:25 – 14:55	Scientific presentations based on abstracts: Mainstreaming Climate Smart Agriculture into a regional policy in a fast-track formulation process: lessons from the Centro American Region, JF Le Coq, CIAT/Cirad Combined use of numerical and conceptual models for climate-smart food systems – Marcelo Galdos, Met Office University, Academic Fellow in Modeling Food Security and Climate Impacts, University of Leeds Ease of doing adaptation and mitigation in agriculture: Can NDCs keep up to the promise? – Shalika Vyas, Project Scientist, CCAFS-BISA
14:55 – 15:05	Perspectives from discussant Dirk Nemitz, Programme Officer, UNFCCC
15:05 – 15:25	Q&A and discussion
15:25 – 15:55	Interactive group discussion: Ideas and opportunities to advance action
15:55 – 16:00	Closing – next steps, Madhur Gautam, Lead Economist, Agriculture Global Practice, World Bank

Day 2

TIME	AGENDA
11:30 – 11:35	Scene setting – Chair- Madhur Gautam, Lead Economist, Agriculture Global Practice, World Bank
11:35 – 11:50	Keynote presentation: Bringing the Concept of Climate Smart Agriculture to Life. Tobias Baedeker, Agriculture Economist, World Bank
11:50 – 12:20	Scientific presentations based on abstracts: Designing climate knowledge networks to link research with agricultural professionals and producers for timely action – Caitlin Corner-Dolloff, Resilient Agriculture Program Lead, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service The missing middle-a key institutional challenge for CSA policy implementation/upscaling: Evidence and ways forward in Africa – Susannah Sallu, Associate Professor of Environment & Development, University of Leeds TANDEM framework for innovative climate policy: new Climate Field School integrating traditional and scientific knowledge, Takeshi Takama, CEO, su-re.co
12:20 – 12:30	Perspectives from discussant Imelda Bacudo, ASEAN Climate Resilience Network
12:30 – 12:50	Q&A and discussion
12:50 – 13:20	Interactive group discussion: Ideas and opportunities to advance action
13:20 – 13:30	Closing – key actions to foster enabling policies and institutions for CSA. Madhur Gautam, Lead Economist, Agriculture Global Practice, World Bank