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World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Description/achievement of initiative

Industry collaboration to: 1) increase food availability by 50% 2) increase resilience and adaptation to climate change 3) reduce agriculture-related emissions by 50%, all by 2030.

Implementation methodologies

CSA concentrates on three pillars productivity, resilience, and decreasing emissions. Implementation methods will consist of using advanced technologies and enhanced farming practices such as decreased tillage that enable farmers to decrease GHG emissions and general resource use. The WBCSD CSA blueprint can also assist agri industry companies and their customers to gain insight on and embrace climate smart practices by rural communities.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

Partner(s)

WBCSD, Low Carbon Technology Partnerships initiative (LCTPi), CGIAR's Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Programme, and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) working group is comprised of PepsiCo, Monsanto, Olam, Kellogg Company, Starbucks, Diageo, Coca-Cola, Yara International, Tyson Foods, Walmart, Du Pont, Banamex, Unilever, PwC, and Novozymes
Progress reports
Goal 2
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
Goal 13
13.b - Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international,
intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.
2020
Process implemented widely around the world
2030
Achievement of goals assessed
Staff / Technical expertise
The CGIAR’s Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Programme aids the CSA working group with recognizing priority actions that support smallholder farmers. CCAFS also assists companies with meeting valuable targets such as decreasing emissi

Basic information
Time-frame: November/2014 - 2020
Website
Partners
WBCSD, Low Carbon Technology Partnerships initiative (LCTPi), CGIAR's Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Programme, and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) working group is comprised of PepsiCo, Monsanto, Olam, Kellogg Company, Starbucks, Diageo, Coca-Cola, Yara International, Tyson Foods, Walmart, Du Pont, Banamex, Unilever, PwC, and Novozymes
Countries
Contact information
Matthew Reddy, Director of Climate Smart Agriculture, reddy@wbcsd.org
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