Flagship lead institutions 2018 Annual Report...AGRHYMET Regional Centre for Training and...

CCAFS 2018 Annual Report

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Flagship lead institutions

Flagship 1: ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute

Flagship 2: CIAT – International Center for Tropical Agriculture

Flagship 3: UVM - University of Vermont

Flagship 4: IRI – International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Cover photo: Model farmer in Doyogena Climate-Smart Farm in Ethiopia. G. Ambaw (CCAFS)


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CCAFS is funded by:

CGIAR Trust Fund ACIAR - Australian Centre for

International Agricultural Research Irish Aid

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC

Thailand

United Kingdom Aid


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Participating CGIAR Centers

AfricaRice - Africa Rice Center BIOVERSITY - Bioversity

International CIAT - International Center for

Tropical Agriculture

CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research

CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo

CIP - Centro Internacional de la Papa

ICARDA - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry

Areas ICRAF - World Agroforestry Centre

ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-

Arid Tropics

IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute

IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute

IRRI - International Rice Research Institute

IWMI - International Water Management Institute

WorldFish


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Other key partners

CARE IIRR - International Institute of

Rural Reconstruction IRI - Columbia University

University of Copenhagen University of Leeds Utrecht University

UVM - University of Vermont WUR - Wageningen University and

Research Women in Global Science and

Technology


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Acronyms

A4NH CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

ACPC African Climate Policy Center

AfDB African Development Bank

AGN African Group of Negotiators

AGNES Africa Group of Negotiators Expert Support

AGRHYMET Regional Centre for Training and Application of Agrometeorology and Operational

Hydrology

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations

AWD Alternate wetting and drying

AV Available

CAC Central American Agricultural Council’s (CAC)

CAAS Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

CARE Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere

CCAFS CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture

CIFOR Center for International Forestry Research

CIMMYT International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

CIP International Potato Center

CIS Climate information services

CLIFF Climate Food and Farming

CLIFF-GRADS Climate Food and Farming – Global Research Alliance Development Scholarships

CoA Clusters of activity

COCOBOD Ghana Cocoa Board

COP Conference of the Parties

CORAF/WECARD West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development

CR4D Climate research for development

CRAFT CCAFS Regional Agricultural Forecasting Tool

CRP CGIAR Research Program

CSA Climate-smart agriculture

CSAq Climate-smart aquaculture

CS-MAP Climate-risk related maps and adaptation plans

CSV Climate-Smart Village

DfID Department for International Development (UK)

ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States

EiB European Investment Bank

Ep-IA Ex-post impact assessment

FAN Focal Area Network

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FLW Food loss and waste

FMARD Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Nigeria)

FP Flagship Program

FTA CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry


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GCAN Gender, Climate Change, and Nutrition Integration Initiative

GHG Greenhouse gas

GIZ German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH

GRA Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

ICAR Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research

ICARDA International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

ICPAC Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development Climate Prediction and

Applications Centre

ICRAF World Agroforestry Centre

ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

ICT Information and communication technology

IDO Intermediate Development Outcome

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development

IFC International Finance Cooperation

IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute

IGAD Intergovernmental Authority on Development

IIRR International Institute of Rural Reconstruction

IITA International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

ILRI International Livestock Research Institute

IMPACT International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade

INR Indian Rupee

IP Intellectual property

IRI International Research Institute for Climate and Society

IRRI International Rice Research Institute

ISC Independent Steering Committee

ISI International Scientific Indexing

ITPGRFA International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

IWMI International Water Management Institute

KDB Kenya Dairy Board

LED Low emission development

LP Learning Platform

LATC Local Agro-Technical Commitees

LTAC Local Technical Agroclimatic Committee

M&E Monitoring and evaluation

MADR Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Colombia)

MARLO Managing Agricultural Research for Learning and Outcomes

MEL Monitoring, evaluation and learning

MELIA Monitoring, evaluation, impact assessment and learning

MIS Management information system

MRV Monitoring, reporting and verification

NAMA Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action

NAP National Adaptation Plan

NARES National Agricultural Research Extension Systems

NDC Nationally Determined Contribution


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NEPAD New Partnership for Africa's Development

NGO Non-governmental organizations

OICR Outcome Impact Case Report

PC Proof of concept

PICSA Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture

PIL Piloting

PIM CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets

POWB Plan of Work and Budget

PVP Plant Variety Protection

R&D Research and development

RHoMIS Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey

RPL Regional Program Leader

RTB CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas

SAMPLES Standard Assessment of Agricultural Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods

SDG Sustainable Development Goal

SECTOR Source-selective and Emission-adjusted GHG Calculator for Cropland

SESAN Food and Nutrition Security Secretariat of Guatemala

SLO System Level Outcome

SNV Netherlands Development Organization

SOC Soil organic carbon

SRF CGIAR Strategic Results Framework

UEMOA West African Economic and Monetary Union

UF University of Florida

UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

USAID United States Agency for International Development

USD United States Dollar

USE Uptake by next user

UVM University of Vermont

VSLA Village Savings and Loan Association

W1 Portfolio window funding

W2 Program window funding

W3 Project window funding

WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development

WLE CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

WMO World Meteorological Organization

WUR Wageningen University and Research


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Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 1

Part A: NARRATIVE SECTION .................................................................................................................... 2

1. Key Results ........................................................................................................................................ 2

1.1 Progress Towards SDGs and SLOs .............................................................................................. 2

1.2 CRP Progress towards Outputs and Outcomes .......................................................................... 2

1.2.1 Overall CRP progress ........................................................................................................... 2

1.2.2 Progress by flagships ........................................................................................................... 3

1.2.3 Variance from Planned Program for this year .................................................................... 4

1.2.4 Altmetric and publication highlights ................................................................................... 5

1.3 Cross-cutting dimensions (at CRP level)..................................................................................... 6

1.3.1 Gender .................................................................................................................................. 6

1.3.2 Youth and other aspects of social inclusion/“Leaving No-one Behind” ............................ 8

1.3.3 Capacity Development ........................................................................................................ 9

1.3.4 Climate Change .................................................................................................................... 9

2. Effectiveness and Efficiency ........................................................................................................... 10

2.1 Management and governance ................................................................................................. 10

2.2 Partnerships .............................................................................................................................. 10

2.2.1. Highlights of External Partnerships .................................................................................. 10

2.2.2. Cross-CGIAR Partnerships................................................................................................. 10

2.3 Intellectual Assets ..................................................................................................................... 11

2.4 Monitoring, Evaluation, Impact Assessment and Learning (MELIA) ....................................... 11

2.5 Efficiency ................................................................................................................................... 12

2.6 Management of Risks to Your CRP ........................................................................................... 12

2.7 Use of W1/W2 Funding ............................................................................................................ 13

3. Financial Summary .......................................................................................................................... 13

Part B. TABLES ......................................................................................................................................... 14

Table 1: Condensed list of policy contributions in this reporting year ............................................. 14

Table 2: List of Outcome/ Impact Case Reports from this reporting year ........................................ 25

Table 3: Condensed list of innovations by stage for this reporting year ......................................... 27

Table 4: Summary of status of Planned Outcomes and Milestones ................................................. 31


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Table 5: Numbers of peer-reviewed publications from current reporting period ........................... 49

Table 6: Participants in CapDev Activities.......................................................................................... 50

Table 7: Key external partnerships .................................................................................................... 51

Table 8: Internal Cross-CGIAR Collaborations ................................................................................... 54

Table 9: Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Impact Assessment (MELIA) ................................... 57

Table 10: Update on Actions Taken in Response to Relevant Evaluations ....................................... 61

Table 11: Examples of W1/2 Use in this reporting period (2018) ..................................................... 62

Table 12: CRP Financial Report ........................................................................................................... 63


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

CCAFS is progressing well, with (i) accumulated outcomes already bringing CCAFS close to its 2022 target of

11 million farm households having adopted CSA; (ii) CCAFS positioned in key global processes; (iii) CCAFS

science in high demand; and (iv) CCAFS conducting a range of cross-Center/CRP activities to fulfil its

integrating function.

Various adoption/outcome studies were conducted. For example, for the 140,000 farmers trained and

facilitated in Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture, studies provide evidence that 90% of

crop-based farmers changed their practices. A major evaluation in 2018 of CCAFS progress in Africa was

very positive, with recommendations for greater focus on social inclusion and M&E.

CCAFS continues to be involved in all relevant global processes, e.g. CCAFS staff have become key advisors

to the Global Commission on Adaptation.

Flagship 1 facilitated the use of CGIAR science in the design/implementation of World Bank investment

worth hundreds of millions of dollars in more than 20 countries. Flagship 2 saw the finalization of a CSA

Compendium, with 50,000 data points of evidence on 70 CSA technologies. Flagship 3 informed 12 policies

to support improved monitoring, reporting and verification, finance, and technical options for major

projects and policies, as well as private sector standards. At least 41 government, NGO, private sector and

community-based institutions used Flagship 4 science to better support farmers’ management of climatic

risks, e.g. the agCelerant platform provided more than 50,000 farmers with bundled financial services.

The CCAFS gender and social inclusion work facilitated many outputs, e.g. research in 45 countries showed

how IT-facilitated climate-informed advisories can be better tailored to meet gender objectives; and gender

outcomes of CSA adoption were monitored in nine Climate-Smart Village sites in eight countries. The role

of youth as information disseminators is also being explored, e.g. as CSA "Infomediaries" in the Philippines,

reaching 225,000 students.

CCAFS scientists produced 168 peer-reviewed publications in 2018, with at least two receiving over 5000

downloads and two with Altmetric scores over 500. CCAFS data was also in high demand, with e.g. 39.47

TB of data downloaded from CCAFS-Climate (down-scaled Global Circulation Models data), 26,828 visits to

the site, and citations in 74 journal articles.

In 2018, more than 700,000 participants benefitted from capacity development activities, with a focus on

UNFCCC processes, e.g. in Africa CCAFS provided training on Nationally Determined Contributions.

Partnerships continued to underpin CCAFS efforts, and helped achieve outcomes, e.g. with Root Capital

using CCAFS science to evaluate over 250 loans.

No major course corrections were needed, but there was a project portfolio overhaul, which involved a

detailed analysis of past performance of all aspects of CCAFS. Six previously established Learning Platforms

continued to support links between CRPs/Centers. For example, a CCAFS team working across the CGIAR

tailored the Smart Data Collection App to measure the efficacy of emerging CGIAR practices and

technologies using a climate lens, now implemented with 2337 farmers (51% women).

W1/W2 funds were used to fund the core elements of CCAFS. We argue that all CCAFS achievements can

be directly linked to W1/W2.


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Part A: NARRATIVE SECTION

1. Key Results

1.1 Progress Towards SDGs and SLOs

Accumulated outcomes over the past two years of Phase II are already bringing CCAFS closer to the target

of 11 million farm households adopting climate-smart agriculture (CSA) by 2022; approximately 3 million

households have already been reached. This includes over 900,000 recipients of climate information

services (CIS) in Ghana, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Rwanda, all reached in 2018. An

ex-post impact assessment (ep-IA) will be initiated in late 2019 to study the impacts of CIS on the 300,000

Ghanaian farmers now receiving these services. For the 140,000 farmers that have been trained and

facilitated in Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA), in Rwanda, Ghana, Tanzania,

Malawi, Mali and Senegal, studies provide evidence that a strong majority (90%) of crop-based farmers

changed their management in response.

Working with major multi-lateral development agencies, national agencies and the private sector, poverty

alleviation and nutrition goals were advanced. An independent outcome study demonstrated how CGIAR

technical advice and knowledge products have contributed to climate-related improvements in at least 65

large agricultural projects/programs in low- and middle-income countries supported by World Bank grants

and loans. African Development Bank’s (AfDB) $1.3 billion CSA investment in the Sahel and Congo basin was

also informed by CCAFS. Efforts were stepped up with IFAD, with CCAFS providing ongoing support in

developing/testing a framework for implementing transformational approaches to climate, environment,

gender, nutrition and youth. Efforts were also made to facilitate private sector action towards these goals,

and Root Capital in collaboration with CCAFS introduced a climate change indicator, which has been used

to evaluate 251 loans totalling $146 million. At the same time, an ep-IA was conducted on the Indian

National Food Security Act, providing evidence of how research contributed to the development of the Act,

and pointing to the challenges of implementation. This, and other work, has placed a greater emphasis in

CCAFS on policy implementation over supporting policy enactment.

In terms of reducing GHGs from agriculture, the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) Facility

has approved the €15 million Thai Rice NAMA project, to be supplemented by €30 million in additional

investments targeting 100,000 rice farmers in six provinces to reduce emissions by about 2.2 million tons

of CO2e. Efforts to mitigate emissions from the rice sector also achieved scale in Bangladesh in partnership

with the Focal Area Network (FAN) that committed to promoting alternate wetting and drying (AWD)

adoption to more than 50,000 farmer-members.

1.2 CRP Progress towards Outputs and Outcomes

1.2.1 Overall CRP progress

The CRP is progressing well, positioning itself in key global processes and producing outputs that are in high

demand. For example, CCAFS staff have become key advisors to the Global Commission on Adaptation. In

Flagship 1 (Priorities and Policies for CSA), CGIAR science was used in the design/implementation of World

Bank investment projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars in over 20 low-income countries. Innovative

activities around gaming included a climate tipping points game played with UNFCCC delegates. In Flagship

2 (Climate-Smart Technologies and Practices), 12 innovations were reported, covering topics from social

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science to management practices. Science highlights include finalization of a CSA Compendium, with

evidence on 70 CSA technologies across Africa. In Flagship 3 (Low Emissions Development), research

produced 15 innovations and informed 12 policies to support improved monitoring, reporting and

verification (MRV), finance and technical options for major projects/policies in several countries, and private

sector standards. At least 41 government, NGO, private sector and community-based institutions used

Flagship 4 (Climate Services and Safety Nets) science to better support farmers’ climatic risk management,

e.g. CCAFS contributed to farmers’ access to financial services, providing over 50,000 farmers with bundled

services.

1.2.2 Progress by flagships

Flagship 1 (FP1) progress:

Policy-related outcomes include multilateral germplasm accession sharing agreements in East Africa, inputs

to sector development plans in Bhutan and the Philippines, Colombia's green growth policy, and Central

American Agricultural Council CSA strategy implementation plans. CGIAR science was used in the

design/implementation of World Bank investment projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars in over 20

low-income countries. A framework for implementing transformational approaches in climate, gender,

nutrition and youth was developed to inform IFAD's future investments. Gender has been positioned in

national and regional CSA agendas in Central America. The African Group of Negotiators (AGN) was

supported to develop submissions to the UNFCCC on gender and agriculture. Innovative activities around

gaming included one focusing on climate tipping points played with UNFCCC delegates. Regional and

country Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) trainings were undertaken in three regions, and a 10-

month capacity development process for the Senate of Cambodia on climate change and national

commitments was initiated. Collaboration with A4NH included reviews of nutrition-climate change research

gaps. The Learning Platform on ex-ante evaluation and decision support for climate-smart options

collaborated with eight Centers and six CRPs on publications, suitability mapping and a workshop for

climate-informed breeding strategy priority-setting. Publications included syntheses of CCAFS’s baseline

surveys, CGIAR research on learning alliances, and dialogue platforms at the science-policy interface.


FP2 informed 16 policies in 2018 (81% Level 2 in maturity). Twelve innovations are reported, covering a

range of topics from social science to management practices, four of which are ready for uptake or already

experiencing uptake by next users. Six outcome cases are reported (three Level 2 maturity), and 111 journal

articles were published (82% Open Access and 93% in ISI indexed journals). Science highlights include

finalization of a CSA Compendium, with 50,000 data points of evidence on 70 CSA technologies across Africa,

production of a global synthesis on CSA priorities drawing on CSA country profiles for over 30 countries, and

participatory evaluation of 94 practices in Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs). Significant outcomes include the

use of climate risk assessment for UTZ certification schemes (potentially reaching 2.3 million farmers),

incorporation of risk screening approaches for impact investors of US$ 146 million, and an outscaling

scheme for CSA residue management by the Indian government with US$ 167 million invested and 2 million

potential beneficiaries. Significant progress is being made on ICT-enabled advisories in Latin America, and

East and West Africa.


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In 2018, CCAFS research produced 101 publications, 15 innovations and five outcomes, and informed 12

policies, to support improved MRV, finance and technical options for major projects and policies in Vietnam,

Colombia, Kenya, India, Thailand, Mexico, Bangladesh, Tanzania, and Indonesia, as well as standards for the

private sector (International Fertilizer Association). Tools and resources including a Food Loss and Waste

(FLW) calculator, N2O global database, milk yield methodology, MRV resource webpage, and SECTOR rice

GHG calculator, were developed. Government capacities for Tier 2 MRV of livestock were strengthened for

15–20 countries. Gender research to develop Low Emission Development (LED) recommendations for

Vietnam's agroforestry supply chains and Kenya's informal dairy market was conducted. The CLIFF-GRADS

program accepted 33 students, including a subset focused on FLW. Twenty new measured emissions factors

and 118 reported emissions factors from the CCAFS Compendium were added to SAMPLES' database. Two

significant MRV projects were launched in China. ICRAF led action research on agroforestry MRV,

synthesizing global agroforestry MRV practices and contributing to Vietnam's NDC. FP3 hosted and

contributed to a training for WBCSD members on LED metrics, and organized an activity-data workshop

with country MRV experts, Global Research Alliance (GRA), FAO, Wageningen University and Research

(WUR), and UNFCCC. FP3 collaborated with FP2 on CSA finance, identifying partners and research priorities.


At least 41 government, NGO, private sector and community-based institutions used FP4 science to better

support farmers’ climatic risk management. Guatemala’s national food security monitoring and early

warning system, delivery of climate services through Rwanda’s agricultural extension service, and a major

agricultural insurance provider increased their responsiveness to women’s needs as a result. CCAFS

contributed to farmers’ access to financial services, e.g. through the agCelerant smallholder value chain

platform which provided more than 50,000 farmers with bundled services, and secured commitments to

support scaling to 17 million farmers in Nigeria and across a 10-country Regional Rice Value Chain Program.

Policy outcomes include the Climate Research for Development (CR4D) Africa strategy; Regional Strategy

for Disaster Risk Management in the Agriculture Sector and Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America

and the Caribbean; Guatemala’s national food security monitoring and early warning system; and national

climate service frameworks in Rwanda and Colombia. In Vietnam, an El Niño early warning advisory was

issued based on climate-risk maps. Resulting adjustments in planting date influenced 600,000 ha (avoiding

200,000 ha of damage). CCAFS engaged major climate services funders and influenced African climate

research investment priorities through CR4D.

1.2.3 Variance from Planned Program for this year

A) Have any promising research areas been significantly expanded?

There has been an increase in focus on climate and related finance. Many agencies are looking to invest in

climate change, but lack the information on where to invest, and the mechanisms for blending private and

public finance are still in their infancy. CCAFS hosted a meeting of investors in London to strategize on the

way forward (investors worth some trillion dollars were present). With growing interest in scaling up low

emissions development by the private sector and financial community, CCAFS has also increased the focus

on business planning in a number of projects. In addition, CCAFS initiated collaboration in 2018 with the

Climate Bond Initiative to develop CSA criteria for agricultural bonds and with the World Bank on their

Transformative Carbon Asset Facility to help design their blueprint for agriculture.


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B) Have any research lines been dropped or significantly cut back?

Lines of research that have been less productive have been reduced. This includes less focus on policy

enactment and a greater focus on policy implementation. For 2019, there will be a moderate reduction in

funding and research effort in CSVs to allow for the expansion of economics and finance-related research

(see A above).

C) Have any Flagships or specific research areas changed direction?

No major changes have occurred. However, in FP1, scenarios work (in relation to climate change and other

drivers) is now more focused on food systems and food nutrition security than on simply agriculture, as was

outlined in the Phase II proposal. In FP3, initial work on emissions factors has now shifted to focus on the

development of MRV systems, with extensive information now available on livestock, rice and agroforestry

MRV. FP4 has expanded its work on gender in several projects, notably on gender-responsive agricultural

climate services.

1.2.4 Altmetric and publication highlights

Publication highlights

In 2018 CCAFS scientists produced 168 peer reviewed articles, of which 93.5% (157) were published in ISI

Journals and 70.1% (119) were confirmed Open Access (access the full list).

The overall number of peer-reviewed articles was the same as in 2017, with the percentage of articles in

ISI journals increasing from 88% in 2017 and the percentage of Open Access articles decreasing slightly

from 73.2% in 2017.

Some of the most downloaded publications included “Food systems for sustainable development:

proposals for a profound four-part transformation” (Caron et al.) with approx. 7900 downloads, and

“Developing climate-smart agriculture to face climate variability in West Africa: Challenges and lessons

learnt” (Partey et al.) with approx. 5200 downloads.

In addition, CCAFS continued to build and maintain several open-access databases, including CCAFS-

Climate, MarkSIM, AgTrials, Analogs, etc. In 2018, 164,235 files were downloaded from CCAFS-Climate (a

21% increase over 2017), which contains down-scaled Global Circulation Models data (39.47 TB data was

downloaded and there were 26,828 total visits, of which 59% were new visitors—all increases over 2017’s

figures). In 2018 CCAFS-Climate was cited in 74 journal articles and an additional 15 publications.

Altmetric highlights

In 2018, 1064 (or 27.3%) of CCAFS’ 3904 publications in CGSpace received social attention. There were six

publications (from all years) with Altmetric scores above 500, double 2017’s number (3), and 26

publications with scores of 101–500. Among the 236 2018 publications with mentions (up 56% from 151

publications 2017), two publications scored over 500.

Social attention for CCAFS publications comes primarily from mentions on Twitter (12936), in news

articles (1241), in blog stories (760), on Facebook (539), and in policy (485).

The top scoring publication of all years, with a score of 2046, was “Options for keeping the food system

within environmental limits” (Clark et al.) in Nature, published October 2018. Twitter drove mentions


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(1580), followed by news media (178). The score is particularly impressive given the recent publication

date.

The second-highest scoring publication of all years, with a score of 1578, was “Planetary boundaries:

Guiding human development on a changing planet” (Richardson et al.) in Science, published in 2015.

“Natural climate solutions” (Shoch et al.) in PNAS, published in 2017, was close behind with a score of

1129 and 1110 mentions on Twitter.

Among the top 20 highest-scoring publications, Nature journals were most common (six publications),

followed by PNAS (three publications), and Science (two publications).

1.3 Cross-cutting dimensions (at CRP level)

1.3.1 Gender

A) List any important CRP research findings

CCAFS gender research included analysis and monitoring of gender outcomes in CSA, toolkits and manuals

to integrate gender and social inclusion in research, and analysis of gender equality in climate services,

climate policy, value chains, and scaling up of CSA.

Manuals on design and priority-setting of climate services, CSA technologies and practices, and dairy value

chains were developed to incorporate the interests and needs of women, e.g.:

• Research in 45 countries showed how ICT-facilitated climate advisories can be better tailored to

meet gender objectives, while gender outcomes of CSA adoption were monitored in nine CSV sites

in eight countries.

• The manual "How to Establish and Manage Seed Banks?" was developed with the women founders

of the Gumbu community seed bank in South Africa.

Research on gender-positive outcomes in CSA and climate services includes:

• Work with women in Niger to restore degraded land resulted in increased empowerment through

improved food security and increased participation in community environmental management.

• Diversification of food production and improved food processing through CSA technologies and

practices improved women's livelihoods in five countries in West Africa.

• A CSA women’s group in Ghana empowered women through sharing information on farming

practices, regular meetings, participation in training, and use of a loans facility. Members increased

their access to community resources for agriculture.

• Agro and climate information can lead to increased sharing of farm decision-making among men

and women when presented in a gender-responsive manner.

• A social equity framework for index insurance is based on experience in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda

and Tanzania. It unpacks the dynamics of social equity and identifies opportunities to benefit

vulnerable members of society.

Research in Tanzania and Uganda finds that while gender is increasingly being mainstreamed into climate

change-related policy, there are resource and knowledge constraints when it comes to implementation.

However, collaboration with policy makers can produce positive results:


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• CCAFS collaboration in Colombia resulted in a mandate to promote the empowerment of rural

women in the “Women, Land and Territory” policy of the province of Cauca.

• The official protocol for the selection of key informants of the Guatemala Secretariat of Food and

Nutritional Security now requires inclusion of women.

• AGN Expert Support (AGNES) members were trained on integrating gender into UNFCCC climate

negotiations.

Examples of research on gender-responsive approaches to scaling:

• Research in 37 countries in Africa and 8 countries in Asia found that ICT can be gender-positive

when it provides different types of information in different formats and platforms. It is also an

effective tool for scaling.

• Research in India found that women’s organizations and farmer field schools can be effective

vehicles for scaling of CSA.

B) What have you learned? What are you doing differently?

Gender findings include recognition that a lack of gender-disaggregated data constrains prioritization and

vulnerability studies. The development of data sets and modelling tools that allow gender-disaggregation

of results is ongoing. More detailed survey instruments have been generated to better understand intra-

household decision making, and methods are being rolled out to more sites to better understand context

specificities, benefits and constraints for women and men.

Research shows that women play less visible roles in agriculture and climate value chains, provide the most

manual labour, and tend not to be included in, or benefit from, mitigation initiatives. Participatory

technology approaches and transformation of gender relations in mitigation measures are being explored

to address this.

CCAFS is building on research on good practices for gender-aware monitoring and evaluation (M&E) by

including questions in data collection to track and evaluate changes in gender inequalities.

Women's empowerment has different dimensions at different levels. An integrated "global" approach is

needed to promote gender equality at household, community, national and global levels in key interlinking

CSA areas of technologies and practices, climate services, financial mechanisms, and policy and institutions.

CCAFS is developing a gender and CSA conceptual framework to coordinate work at different levels in

different areas.

C) Have any problems arisen in relation to gender issues or integrating gender into the CRP’s research?

In some regions gender is simply not prioritised by government actors, making it hard to integrate gender

into policy processes and documents. Implementation is constrained by lack of knowledge and appropriate

budgeting.

Transforming gender relationships in implementing mitigation measures is at a very early stage, and

women's roles are usually limited or less visible.

Women's adoption of CSA technologies and policies is constrained by lack of access to resources and

information for implementation. How to resolve these access constraints is an important aspect of CCAFS

research.


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Declining budgets have reduced the gender expertise available in CCAFS programs.

1.3.2 Youth and other aspects of social inclusion/“Leaving No-one Behind”

Youth experience barriers in participating in farming in the developing world, for reasons of poor economic

returns, lack of access to assets such as land and credit, and low participation in household decision-making.

They tend to engage in climate-induced seasonal migration as a result.

Integration of youth in CSA value chains include certification scheme for cocoa with Rainforest Alliance/UTZ,

including site-specific, climate resilient cocoa training and extension that improve production practices by

smallholder farmers. These materials constitute the core cocoa training curriculum which are mandatory

for public and private extension initiatives in Ghana. agCelerant is an inclusive smallholder value chain

orchestration platform based on phygital agriculture which employed 30 youth as franchised agents in

2018. In Rwanda, training was provided to 73 members of the Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum.

Capacity development efforts include the CLIFF-GRADS fellowships awarded to a record 33 participants

(including to 17 women) on measurement and management of GHG emissions and carbon storage in

agricultural systems. The role of youth as information disseminators in their homes and communities is also

being explored as CSA "Infomediaries" in the Philippines. This program has been scaled out through the

Department of Education to 208 sites, reaching 225,000 students. 109 schools have integrated climate-

smart rice agriculture into their curriculums.

A) List any important CRP research findings

A series of webinars organized by CCAFS with the CSA Youth Network, Climate for Development in Africa

Youth Platform, Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation, AgriProfocus and the CGIAR

Research Program on Livestock identified several key areas for attracting and supporting youth in CSA:

• Integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be attractive to youth, e.g. the

Zimbabwe Farmer's Union partnership with a local mobile operator to scale-up climate-resilient

solutions like weather-based index insurance, ICT-enabled climate information, and production

advisory services.

• Access to appropriate and inclusive financial services can provide the resources and support they

need to become economically active.

• CSA curricula in schools, mentorship of youth with older farmers, and peer-to-peer exchanges are

all useful strategies for equipping youth with CSA and farming skills.

• Youth are typically under- or unrepresented as a stakeholder group in policy and technical debates

around climate change. Gaming can be a tool to spark dialogue and modify perceptions. A game

focusing on climate tipping points was developed at UNFCCC events in Bonn and Katowice in 2018,

to integrate youth perspectives into global policy. Results showed significant changes to risk

perceptions around climate tipping points among participants.

• Young women face barriers of lack of participation in household decision making and access to

resources, as do young men, but they also face threats to personal security. They experience

employment constraints and have fewer migration options than young men.

• Increasing the education of both young women and men will increase their employment

opportunities and may better equip them for agricultural production in an increasingly

technological age.


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B) What have you learned? What are you doing differently?

Gaming is an area that needs to be explored further for its potential to contribute to social inclusion in

debates and activities around challenging issues.

Analysis of the influence of Mali’s Agrometeorological Advisory Program on farm-level decision making

found that gender and age/seniority as well as assets ownership explain patterns of climate service use.

Research with youth in East Africa found that training youth in CSA and agricultural production increases

their participation in farm decision making.

In 2018, CCAFS started integrating disaggregation by age in its M&E, including baseline surveys.

C) Have any problems arisen in relation to youth issues or integrating youth into the CRP’s research?

There has been difficulty in identifying researchers who have expertise in youth, agriculture and climate

change. Low research capacity exists in centres to accommodate youth in research approaches, and projects

are still not fully addressing youth as part of the problem identification.

1.3.3 Capacity Development

In 2018, over 700,000 participants benefited from CCAFS capacity development activities. The huge increase

from previous years comes from efforts by Rainforest Alliance and the Ghanaian cocoa sector to capacitate

farmers and extension agents in CSA practices. In addition, in Rwanda, 881 intermediary professionals were

trained on Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture, in turn training over 54,000 farmers to understand

and act on climate information.

Efforts also focused on UNFCCC negotiations, National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and NDCs. In particular,

CCAFS trained the AGN members in West Africa on gender mainstreaming in UNFCCC negotiations, and

worked with several countries in Southeast Asia on resilience building to support NAPs and NDC processes.

In East and West Africa, CCAFS provided training materials for NDCs. About 20 countries improved their

knowledge of Tier 2 methods for estimating livestock emissions, which can significantly contribute to MRV

for NDC processes. CCAFS also worked closely with the members of the Cambodian Senate and the

Parliamentary Institute of Cambodia to provide knowledge and capacity on climate change, climate politics

and climate negotiations.

CCAFS also targeted young people, and in partnership with GRA and USAID, a record 33 CLIFF-GRADS

fellowships were awarded to PhD students from developing countries, including 17 women. An additional

nine (five women) CLIFF-GRADS recipients received awards to conduct research in 2018.

The private sector was also targeted. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

and CCAFS convened a workshop, with key players including Ben and Jerry's, Cabot, Levi Strauss, Mars,

McDonald's, Microsoft, Monsanto, PepsiCo, Quantis, Syngenta, VF Corp, Yara, Ceres, and the IFC. The

workshop provided training on CSA metrics to track companies' progress and outcomes for building climate

resilience in agriculture. CCAFS also worked with the Council of Smallholder Agricultural Finance members

to incorporate climate and deforestation risk in loan due diligence processes.

1.3.4 Climate Change

Category not relevant to CCAFS - the entire program is climate change.


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2. Effectiveness and Efficiency

2.1 Management and governance

There were no changes in management or governance arrangements in 2018, apart from the decision to

invite a Director General (DG) from a Center other than the lead Center to each Independent Steering

Committee (ISC) meeting as an observer (selection based on ISC meeting location). In 2018 CIMMYT’s DG

was invited.

In 2018 key decisions about the future portfolio of projects (for the last three years of Phase II) were made.

This involved detailed analysis of past performance of all aspects of CCAFS (e.g. thematic leadership, project

performance, gender incorporation) and a series of strategy and stakeholder meetings, including dialogue

with the ISC. While this was challenging, the process was successful in shaping the new portfolio.

2.2 Partnerships

2.2.1. Highlights of External Partnerships

Partnerships continued to underpin CCAFS efforts, and helped achieve a number of outcomes in 2018. A

key highlight was the emphasis on private sector engagement and resulting outcomes. The partnership with

Rainforest Alliance resulted in a greater emphasis on CSA in the forthcoming version of the Rainforest

Alliance Standard, as well as the use of CCAFS science in new Rainforest Alliance projects in Honduras,

Indonesia and Ivory Coast. Engaging the investment community was also a highlight, with Root Capital using

CCAFS science to evaluate over 250 loans for coffee, cocoa and other sectors. CCAFS also continued to lead

in shaping the private sector's thinking around metrics for CSA, in partnership with WBCSD, and a capacity

building workshop was organized for major agribusinesses. Taking cognizance of the need for action on the

demand side, CCAFS worked with Ceres to inform the position of investors controlling US$ 6.5 trillion, who

have demanded fast food companies reduce emissions from their supply chains. The private sector was also

actively engaged in scaling out AWD in Bangladesh and Thailand, and in provision of climate and market

advisories in Ghana.

In addition to the private sector, CCAFS also built strong partnerships with other key players, notably

multilateral financial institutions, and innovative partnership arrangements including staff secondments.

The provision of evidence through these partnerships has led to CCAFS informing key investments of the

World Bank, AfDB, and IFAD. These efforts at the global and regional levels were complemented by strong

partnerships on the ground, for participatory testing of technologies and practices. This included scaling out

via partners (local development agencies, NGOs), national agricultural research agencies and local

universities. Use of CCAFS tools by a number of partners in project/program design and implementation

was another highlight.

2.2.2. Cross-CGIAR Partnerships

In 2017, CCAFS established six Learning Platforms (LPs) to link climate change efforts of Centers/CRPs, and

in 2018, these LPs continued to play a key role in facilitating cross-CGIAR partnerships. As part of the LP on

"ex-ante evaluation and decision support for climate-smart options", funds were secured for a workshop to

promote networking and collaboration among CRPs/Centers. The LP on “participatory evaluation of CSA

technologies and practices in Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs)” developed the Smart Data Collection App and

implemented a series of trainings on the CSV multilevel monitoring framework. The trainings covered ca.


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50 staff, including CSV coordinators, implementing partners, enumerators and supervisors from 10

countries across Latin America, East Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Implementation followed in eight

sites covering 1,391 households and 2,337 farmers (51% women). The LP on “identifying priorities and

options for low-emissions development” organized a webinar on reducing FLW as a climate change

mitigation strategy and developed guidance for multilateral development banks on decision support for

agricultural soil carbon sequestration. The LP on “weather-related agricultural insurance” also achieved

progress in fostering a CGIAR insurance community of practice through the launch of a webinar series, and

raising visibility through activities surrounding the 2018 Microinsurance Conference (Lusaka), and COP24

(Katowice). The "Gender, Agriculture and Climate Change" LP was presented at the 2018 Gender Platform

Annual Scientific Meeting, and updated to include sections on gender and climate-smart crop production

systems, gender and livestock production, and tools and frameworks for integrating gender into CSA. The

LP on “partnerships and capacity for scaling CSA” worked across Centers/CRPs to provide common impact

pathways for CGIAR climate change research, notably at COP24 where efforts of multiple CGIAR and non-

CGIAR partners were brought together under the umbrella of the “Agriculture Advantage 2.0: Transforming

food systems under a changing climate” event series.

2.3 Intellectual Assets

Have any intellectual assets been strategically managed by the CRP (together with the relevant Center) this

year?

While CCAFS does not have patents or PVPs, the program takes the following actions to maximize the

accessibility and impact of its intellectual property (IP): 1) follows up on partners' compliance with

agreements and contracts thus ensuring that all agreements and contracts, including confidentiality, comply

with IP principles; 2) maintains a regularly updated IP portfolio which, in CCAFS' case, includes lists of

publications and databases; 3) ensures that partners adhere to prior informed consent principles; and 4)

ensures that information subject to confidentiality obligations from CCAFS is appropriately managed.

Indicate any published patents and/or plant variety right applications (or equivalent)

Not applicable.

List any critical issues or challenges encountered in the management of intellectual assets in the context of

the CRP

No major challenges experienced.

2.4 Monitoring, Evaluation, Impact Assessment and Learning (MELIA)

One major evaluation in 2018 was a review of CCAFS conducted by the EU and IFAD, looking at progress in

East and West Africa. The review was very positive, with recommendations for greater focus on social

inclusion and M&E. Other highlights include evaluations of PICSA: making weather and climate data

available to 140,000 farmers in several countries around the world. Several adoption studies of different

CSA interventions were undertaken in East Africa, Southeast Asia and South Asia, and the first results were

obtained from midline surveys and CSV monitoring activities, which are being expanded in 2019. An epIA

on climate information services delivery in Senegal is ongoing. Under collaboration with the CGIAR System

Office, CCAFS delivered a CGIAR Results Dashboard prototype (data from 2017 annual reports captured

online in MARLO from six pilot CRPs). The CCAFS MELIA team has supported the programming of the


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management information system (MIS) now used by nine CRPs and two Platforms. In 2018 the work

centered on adjustments to requirements for planning and reporting.

2.5 Efficiency

CCAFS worked with all Centers and CRPs to plan for a greater degree of collaboration across the CGIAR

through the "CGIAR Two Degree Initiative" that will involve climate-related research for development in

multiple Centers/CRPs, with a focus on six Grand Challenges. CCAFS also funded five networking meetings,

with the goal of fostering greater collaboration around strategic topics. For example, one was a cross-CRP

Conference on Scaling, which brought together 34 research, development, farmer, policy and finance

organizations, to exchange perspectives and experiences on scaling (see key messages: “The why, what,

who and how of scaling agricultural innovations”). The conference was followed by a Scaling Workshop, in

which 25 researchers from nine CGIAR Centers discussed what would be needed institutionally to better

accommodate scaling. Other networking meetings to improve synergies covered weather-related

agricultural insurance; the Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS); learning and action for

gender-transformative CSA; and climate-informed breeding strategies.

As part of the LP on "Participatory evaluation of CSA practices and portfolios in CSVs", a pluri-disciplinary

CCAFS team tailored the Smart Data Collection App to measure the efficacy of emerging CGIAR agricultural

practices and technologies using a climate lens. A series of regional and local training sessions on the CSV

multilevel monitoring framework were implemented with 50 staff from multiple Centers from 10 countries

across Latin America, East Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Implementation followed in eight sites

covering 1,391 households and 2,337 farmers (51% women). More sites are to be monitored in 2019.

2.6 Management of Risks to Your CRP

CCAFS maintains a risk catalogue that is discussed at the Independent Steering Committee meeting. In 2018

the following were included in the discussion:

Programmatic risks

The major risk that CCAFS faced in 2018 continued to be related to funding levels. With the declines in

W1/W2 funds in the past and the uncertain amount of W3/Bilateral it was unclear if funding targets would

be achieved. One mitigation measure employed was to increase the level of contingency funds.

Climate change continues to be very high on the global agenda, so CCAFS staff are highly sought out for

engagement and partnership. When combined with reduced funding this can lead to stress and burn-out.

The key mitigation strategy is to ensure strategic focus and not be spread too thinly over topics/countries.

Contextual risk

With some governments still in denial about climate change, there is a risk to future funding. However, such

trends in government are likely to be mitigated by rising public activism.

Institutional risks

The risk "Weak commitment and/or capacity of CGIAR Centers to deliver a cohesive body of CGIAR climate

change science given the incorporation of climate change issues in all CRPs" has continued to be on CCAFS’

management agenda. CCAFS has positioned CGIAR as a go-to place for climate change issues in developing

country agriculture. The position of CGIAR could be weakened in the climate change world if it is seen as a




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collection of unconnected parts. CCAFS has implemented various measures to ensure it is integrative (e.g.

see 2.5).

2.7 Use of W1/W2 Funding

W1/W2 funds were planned to fund the core elements of the CCAFS strategy, as described in the POWB

and Phase II proposal. We would argue that all CCAFS achievements are due to W1/W2 funds as we only

use W3/Bilateral funds to support the overall strategy of CCAFS. W3/Bilateral projects are only accepted if

aligned with the strategy, and usually contribute to specific case studies in particular countries. W1/W2

funds were relatively equally allocated to the different CCAFS Regional Programs (Latin America, East Africa,

West Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia) to build project portfolios across all Flagships. W1/W2 funds

were allocated to Flagships as follows (including 2017 carryover):

Flagship 1: Priorities and Policies for CSA 22%

Flagship 2: Climate-Smart Technologies and Practices 31%

Flagship 3: Low Emissions Development 26%

Flagship 4: Climate Services and Safety Nets 21%

3. Financial Summary

A total of 22 direct Program Participants, 15 CGIAR Centers, 5 universities and 2 non-CGIAR NGOs

contributed to the 2018 scenario, in which a total of US$ 51.4 million was spent between W1/W2 funds

(18.3 million) and W3/Bilateral funds (33.1 million), one of the best years for CCAFS in terms of the

W3/Bilateral proportion over W1/W2 funds (1.8x).

The W1/W2 budget figures shown in this report comprise the 2017 carryover (3.438 million) and the 2018

allocation (18.245 million). The W3/Bilateral budget amounts come from the POWB.

The overall execution of W1/W2 funds reached 85%. The difference unspent is already committed for the

finalization of 2018 activities and to complement the new 2019 portfolio. W3/Bilateral expenses reached

97% of the expected contributions by Program Participants. The W1/W2 carryover for year 2018 (3.360

million) is distributed among Flagships and CRP management support costs as follows: 19% FP1, 28% FP2,

19% FP3, 30% FP4 and 4% CRP Management Team.

In terms of Flagships, W1/W2 expenses are split as follows: 22% FP1, 31% FP2, 27% FP3 and 20% FP4. CRP

management support costs via W1/W2 funds reached 10% of the total W1/W2 CRP expenditures. From the

total W3/Bilateral reported expenditures, the contribution per Flagship was: 22% FP1, 41% FP2, 24% FP3

and 14% FP4.

W2 donor contributions (13.883 million) reached 76% of the total W1/W2 income of year 2018 (18.245

million), the highest proportion over W1 funds in CCAFS since Phase I. The W2 contributions per donor are

composed as follows: 39% UK, 35% The Netherlands, 11% Switzerland, 8% Australia, 6% Ireland and 1%

Thailand. With these funds, 90% of the 2018 Program Participants' W1/W2 budgets were covered within

year 2018 and the 10% difference disbursed during the annual closure.


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Part B. TABLES

Table 1: Condensed list of policy contributions in this reporting year

Name and description of

policy, legal instrument,

investment or curriculum to

which CGIAR contributed (20-

50 words, ideally around 30

words)

Level of

Maturity

Link to sub-IDOs

(max. 2)

CGIAR cross-cutting marker score Link to OICR (obligatory if Level of Maturity is

2 or 3) or link to evidence (e.g. PDF

generated from MIS) Gender Youth Capacity

Develop-

ment

Climate

Change

41 - Local Technical

Agroclimatic Committees as

an implementing tool of the

Regional Strategy for

Disaster Risk Management in

the Agriculture Sector and

Food and Nutrition Security

in Latin America and the

Caribbean (2018–2030)

Level 1 • Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2571

OICR121

42 - Mbale District (Uganda)

counterfeit agricultural

inputs (prohibition)

ordinance, 2018. Passed to

stem the influx of fake

agricultural inputs which was

discouraging farmer use and

reducing trust in the market

Level 2 • Conducive

agricultural policy

environment

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR81

47 - Implementation

guidelines approved in Benin

and Madagascar to

Level 2 • Increased

conservation and

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

2 -

Principal

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2573

https://marlo.cgiar.org/projects/CCAFS/studySummary.do?studyID=2571&cycle=Reporting&year=2018





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operationalize laws adopted

in 2017 governing access and

benefit sharing of plant

genetic resources. National

partners in the two countries

developed guidelines for the

day-to-day operation of

these laws, including details

about processes, decision

making, relationships

between agencies with

different, but related,

responsibilities under the

laws

use of genetic

resources

48 - Two community

biocultural protocols aimed

at promoting farmers as

managers, providers and

recipients of genetic

materials and developing

expertise for climate change

adaptation approved by

municipal governments in

Benin


conservation and

use of genetic

resources

2 -

Principal

objective

0 - Not

targeted

2 -

Principal

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2574

49 - Kenya Climate Smart

Agriculture Implementation

Framework (2018–2027)


agricultural policy

environment

• Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

? - Too

early to

tell

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2122




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54 - National Council on

Food Security approves a

community-based food

security monitoring and early

warning system developed

using CCAFS science

Level 2 • Enhanced

capacity to deal

with climatic risks

and extremes

(mitigation and

adaptation

achieved)

1 -

Significant

objective

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR151

64 - Guideline for

mainstreaming climate

change adaptation and

mitigation in national and

sub-national agricultural

sector policies and plans in

Uganda


capacity to deal

with climactic risks

and extremes

(mitigation and

adaptation

achieved)

• Conducive

agricultural policy

environment

2 -

Principal

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR81

73 - Investment by two

Nepalese states in the "Chief

Minister's Climate Smart

Agriculture Village Model

Program


resilience of agro-

ecosystems and

communities,

especially those

including

smallholders

• Closed yield gaps

through improved

agronomic and

animal husbandry

practice

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR181





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74 - Supporting Directives

and Circulars of the Ministry

of Agriculture and Rural

Development of Vietnam

and the Department Crop

Production for

implementation of Climate-

Related Risk Maps and

Adaptation Plans (CS-MAP)

particularly the adjustment

of planting dates


environment for

managing shocks

and vulnerability,

as evidenced in

rapid response

mechanisms

• Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2600

75 - World Bank agricultural

investments for improved

climate change resilience in

the ag sector and reduced

contributions to GHG

emissions rise from 28%

(2016) to 45% (2018) of

committed budgets of new

agriculture projects

Level 2 • Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

• Reduced net

greenhouse gas

emissions from

AFOLU (mitigation

and adaptation

achieved)

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2154

OICR581

76 Integration of Climate

Smart Agriculture (CSA)

competencies by the

Philippine Department of

Education in the curricula of

75 schools nationwide that

now serve as CSA

information hubs among the

278 technical and vocational

(TechVoc) secondary schools


capacity to deal


and extremes

(mitigation and

adaptation

achieved)

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR631






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77 - Extension policy of Olam

Uganda: Olam Uganda, a

private company working

with coffee farmers, has

incorporated 'Stepwise', an

approach to climate change,

into its farmer training


capacity to deal


and extremes

(mitigation and

adaptation

achieved)

• Enhanced

adaptive capacity

to climate risks

(more sustainably

managed agro-

ecosystems)

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2602

88 - Comprehensive

Development Plan (2016–

2022) of the Municipality of

Ivisan, Capiz Province,

Philippines includes CSA

program with uptake of CSA

practices as success indicator

of climate resilience


agricultural policy

environment

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2638

89 - CCAFS' Climate

Resilience and Vulnerability

Assessment (CRVA) maps

were used as referenced in

developing the National

Color-Coded Agricultural

Guide in the Philippines


agricultural policy

environment

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2617





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91 - Agriculture and Fisheries

Modernization Plan 2018–

2022 integrates CCAFS'

Climate Resilience and

Vulnerability Assessment as

one of its planning tools


agricultural policy

environment

• Enhanced

capacity to deal

with climatic risks

and extremes

(mitigation and

adaptation

achieved)

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2619

94 - Vision 2045 for

agriculture sector in Bhutan -

strategic planning to achieve

food self-sufficiency,

livelihood security, and

environmental conservation


agricultural policy

environment

• Improved

forecasting of

impacts of climate

change and

targeted

technology

development

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2610

95 - Mbale District (Uganda)

coffee (management) bill,

2018


agricultural policy

environment

• Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR81

96 - Inputs on land

productivity for the long-

term Green Growth Policy of

Colombia


agricultural policy

environment

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2628






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• Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

100 - CCAFS and PIM science

referenced in formulating

the national and sectoral

Philippine Medium Term

Development Plan 2017–

2022


capacity to deal

with climatic risks

and extremes

(mitigation and

adaptation

achieved)

• Conducive

agricultural policy

environment

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2596

OICR2619

102 - National extension

training materials/

curriculum developed for

cocoa in Ghana. These

materials form the obligatory

base for all public and

private extension materials

for cocoa in the country

Level 2 • Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

• Conducive

agricultural policy

environment

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2161

104 - Implementing the

resolution of 9th Congress of

the Farmers Association of

Ha Tinh province, Vietnam

that integrates climate-smart

agriculture as part of the

2018–2023 provincial

strategy


livelihood

opportunities

• Enhanced

adaptive capacity

for climate risks

(more sustainably

managed agro-

ecosystems)

1 -

Significant

objective

? - Too

early to

tell

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2640






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105 - Local government of

Guinayangan, Quezon

Province, Philippines

emphasized climate-smart

agriculture in its 2017–2022

Comprehensive

Development Plan &

Municipal Agriculture Office

Banner Programs, following

the participatory

development of

Guinayangan Climate Smart

Village


agricultural policy

environment

• Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

1 -

Significant

objective

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2101

OICR201

OICR2109

OICR2638

111 - Rainforest Alliance

Sustainable Agriculture

Standard used as a basis for

the development of

Rainforest Alliance crop-

specific certifications

Level 1 • Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

• Increased

capacity for

innovation in

partner

development

organizations and

in poor and

vulnerable

communities

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR561

112 - Sustainable livestock

policy of Colombia's national

livestock producer

organization (FEDEGAN)

included information on

improved pasture nutrition

Level 1 • Reduced net

greenhouse gas

emissions from

AFOLU (more

sustainably

managed agro-

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2007








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and methane emissions,

which is informing livestock

options in the development

of the Government of

Colombia's Nationally

Appropriate Mitigation

Action policy

ecosystems)

• Reduced net

greenhouse gas

emissions from

AFOLU (mitigation

and adaptation

achieved)

116 - Impact investor Root

Capital introduced CCAFS

data on climate change risk

into its process for

underwriting and prioritizing

> $146M of loans to

producer organizations in

cocoa, coffee, etc. and

promoted uptake by

numerous peer agencies in

the Council on Smallholder

Agricultural Finance (CSAF)

community


capacity for

innovation in

partner

development

organizations and

in poor and

vulnerable

communities

• Increased

livelihood

opportunities

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR571

OICR2162

139 - Climate Research for

Development (CR4D) Africa

2018–2022 Strategic Plan:

CR4D is an African-led

initiative that aims to

strengthen links between

climate science research and

climate information needs in

support development

planning across Africa

Level 2 • Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

• Increased

capacity for

innovations in

partner research

organizations

0 - Not

targeted

0 - Not

targeted

1 -

Significant

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR21





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158 - The Cauca Department

Secretariat of Women,

Colombia, has updated its

Rural Women Policy to

include climate change and

variability and the role of

women in addressing climate

and environmental

challenges


agricultural policy

environment

• Enabled

environment for

climate resilience

2 -

Principal

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2681

160 - Gender and social

inclusion incorporated into

the Kenya Dairy Board

Strategic Plan

Level 1 • Gender-

equitable control

of productive

assets and

resources

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

0 - Not

targeted

The CCAFS project has supported Kenya

Dairy Board in a scoping study for the

development of their gender strategy. The

study focused on strategies, methodologies,

good practices and lessons learned in

addressing gender and social inclusion in

the dairy sector. As part of this scoping

study, numerous discussions with KDB staff

(including management) were held on

gender and social inclusion in the dairy

sector (including youth). Kenya Dairy Board

decided to include gender and social

inclusion as crosscutting issue in their

corporate strategic plan.

The project continues to support Kenya

Dairy Board in the development of their

gender strategy. The strategy will be

finalized in 2019.

161 - Kenya Climate-Smart

Agriculture Project (KCSAP)

monitoring and evaluation

Level 1 • Reduced net

greenhouse gas

emissions from

? - Too

early to

tell

? - Too

early to

tell

1 -

Significant

objective

1 -

Significant

objective

OICR2648




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manual incorporates CGIAR

methods for GHG emissions

agriculture, forests

and other forms of

land-use (more

sustainably

managed agro-

ecosystems)

182 - Investment in climate-

smart livestock in East Africa

by German government


adaptive capacity

to climate risks

(more sustainably

managed agro-

ecosystems)

• Reduced net

greenhouse gas

emissions from

agriculture, forests

and other forms of

land-use (more

sustainably

managed agro-

ecosystems)

1 -

Significant

objective

0 - Not

targeted

2 -

Principal

objective

2 -

Principal

objective

OICR2708



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Table 2: List of Outcome/ Impact Case Reports from this reporting year

Title of Outcome/ Impact Case Report (OICR) Maturity level Status

OICR121 - Implementation of novel agro-climatic services help more than 500,000 farmers

in Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua better plan their crops

Level 2 Updated Outcome/Impact case at new level of maturity

OICR181 - Investment by two Nepalese states in the 'Chief Minister's Climate Smart

Agriculture Village Model Program'

Level 2 New Outcome/Impact case

OICR571 - Root Capital uses CCAFS data to evaluate 251 loans including 199 for coffee

worth 146 million USD


OICR581 - World Bank agricultural investments for improved climate change resilience in

the ag sector and reduced contributions to GHG emissions rise from 28% (2016) to 45%

(2018) of committed budgets of new agriculture projects

Level 2 Updated Outcome/Impact case at same level of

maturity

OICR591 - Sustainable livestock policy of Colombia's national livestock producer

organization (FEDEGAN) included information on improved pasture nutrition and methane

emissions, which is informing livestock options in the development of the Government of

Colombia's Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action policy


maturity

OICR2144 - Delivery of climate services through Rwanda’s national agricultural extension

service extended to 106,000 farmers, and deepened through climate service Radio

Listening Clubs


maturity

OICR2161 - Ghana's COCBOD incorporates CGIAR science into training materials for climate

resilient cocoa production (targeting a potential 800,000 farmers)


maturity

OICR2585 - 15 million Euro invested for mitigation action in Thailand's rice sector Level 1 Updated Outcome/Impact case at new level of maturity



















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OICR2600 - 600,000 hectares of rice planted earlier in Vietnam to avoid risk to salinity

intrusion brought by the 2019 El Nino

Level 2 Updated Outcome/Impact case at new level of maturity

OICR2628 - Inputs on Land Productivity for the Long-Term Green Growth Policy of

Colombia


OICR2651 - CGIAR Climate change West Africa Program informs the adoption of a public-

private partnership business model for climate information services in Ghana









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Table 3: Condensed list of innovations by stage for this reporting year

Title of innovation with link Innovation Type Stage of innovation Geographic scope (with location)

245 - Global community seedbanks platform Research and Communication

Methodologies and Tools

Stage 1: discovery/proof of concept

(PC - end of research phase)

Global

246 - New method for GHG measurements with closed

chambers at night time

Research and Communication




Global

250 - Food security and drought monitoring and early

warning tool considering local vulnerabilities



Stage 4: uptake by next user (USE) National, Guatemala

261 - Innovation platforms for Climate Smart Agriculture

in Honduras

Social Science Stage 1: discovery/proof of concept


National, Honduras

272 - Decision-making tool for national implementation of

the Plant Treaty’s multilateral system of access and

benefit-sharing



Stage 3: available/ready for uptake

(AV)

Global

274 - Using roof-top rainwater harvesting system (RWHS)

to irrigate home-based vegetable gardens in Laos

Production systems and

Management practices



National, Lao PDR

275 - Climate-Related Risk Maps and Adaptation Plans

(Climate Smart MAP) for Rice Production in Vietnam’s

Mekong River Delta



Stage 4: uptake by next user (USE) National, Vietnam

286 - Validation of RUMINANT model of enteric methane

emissions




(AV)

National, Colombia

289 - Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees (LTACs)

approach generating climate forecasts and crop response

Social Science Stage 4: uptake by next user (USE) Regional, Latin America and the

Caribbean

https://marlo.cgiar.org/summaries/CCAFS/projectInnovationSummary.do?innovationID=245&phaseID=56




















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298 - Tool to integrate and measure gender equality in

monitoring and evaluation of climate services

Social Science Stage 1: discovery/proof of concept


Global

299 - Climate Smart Agriculture investment plans Research and Communication



(AV)

Global

310 - Estimating minimum nutrient (N,P,K) requirements

for climate-smart intensification of maize cropping



Stage 4: uptake by next user (USE) Regional, Sub-Saharan Africa

311 - Framework of analysis of country-level mitigation

potential from agricultural sector





Global

330 - Stakeholders Prioritization Framework of Climate-

Smart Agriculture Interventions



Stage 2: successful piloting (PIL - end

of piloting phase)

Sub-national, India

338 - The CCAFS Regional Agricultural Forecasting Tool

(CRAFT) will help bring powerful advance information

tools to farmers and agricultural decision makers, better

allowing them to manage within-season climate risk to

agriculture




(AV)

Global

340 - Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV)

Platform for Agriculture




(AV)

Global

360 - Pronosticos AClimateColombia: A system for the

sustainable provision of agro-climatic information for

agricultural adaptation in Colombia



Stage 4: uptake by next user (USE) National, Colombia

417 - Participatory Integrated Climate Services for

Agriculture (PICSA)



Stage 4: uptake by next user (USE) Regional, South Asia, Latin

America and the Caribbean,

Sub-Saharan Africa























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419 - Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-

based App—“YeZaRe”—for disseminating climate and

market information to smallholder farmers developed and

is being tested in northern and southern Ethiopian

highlands through a public-private partnership




of piloting phase)

National, Ethiopia

422 - Adoption and testing of the Gold Standard

Smallholder Dairy Methodology




of piloting phase)

National, Kenya

428 - Qualitative methodological approach to better

understand the socioeconomic factors that influence

adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural options in

smallholder farming communities.

Social Science Stage 2: successful piloting (PIL - end

of piloting phase)

Global

429 - Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) monitoring

framework to track adoption, outcomes, synergies and

tradeoffs at household and farm level



Stage 3: available/ ready for uptake

(AV)

Global

439 - Investment pathways (Stepwise approach) tailored

to specific farmer segments for improving resilience and

smart agriculture practices




of piloting phase)

National, Uganda

440 - Developing, testing and making available an

integrated climate and agro-climate advisory to enhance

adaptive capacity and sustainable agricultural productivity

in Ethiopia





Regional, East Africa

484 - Analytical approach for predicting potential areas of

agroforestry expansion

Biophysical Research Stage 3: available/ ready for uptake

(AV)

National, Vietnam

507 - Feeding cassava leaves to livestock for reducing

methane emissions





National, Colombia



























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522 - Course for Cambodian parliament on climate politics Research and Communication


Stage 4: uptake by next user (USE) National, Cambodia

523 - Social learning approaches in Climate Smart Villages

(CSV) development and scaling

Social Science Stage 2: successful piloting (PIL - end

of piloting phase)

Regional, Southeast Asia

528 - Climate tipping point game for Conference of the

Parties (COP) delegates




of piloting phase)

Global







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Table 4: Summary of status of Planned Outcomes and Milestones

FP Outcomes 2022 Summary narrative on progress against

each FP outcome this year

Milestone 2018

milestones

status

Provide evidence for completed milestones (refer

back to means of verification, and link to evidence

wherever possible) or explanation for extended,

cancelled or changed

FP1

FP1 Outcome: # of

policy decisions

taken (in part) based

on engagement and

information

dissemination by

CCAFS

Activities undertaken on development

and dissemination of training

materials on resilience building in

several countries of Southeast Asia,

supporting National Adaptation Plans

and Nationally-Determined

Contributions (NDCs); training

materials and regional workshops on

NDCs in West and East Africa; training

the African Group of Negotiators on

gender mainstreaming in United

Nations Framework Convention on

Climate Change negotiations, in West

Africa; climate-smart agriculture

planning and investment in coastal

Asia; long-term capacity development

of the Senate of Cambodia on climate

change and national commitments;

training material developed and used

for scenario-based strategic planning

in several Central American countries.

All this helps empower partners to

mainstream issues around climate

change, national commitments and

gender into national decision-making

processes.

2018 - Training materials

are developed and

workshops held to

strengthen

national/state capacities

for scenario-based

strategic planning, as

well as targeted

materials for other

partner organizations

(e.g. NGOs) developed

(linked to CoA 1.2)

Complete NDC trainings:


NDC materials:

https://www.slideshare.net/cgiarclimate/training-

workshop-on-implementing-nationally-

determined-contributions-ndc-commitments-in-

agriculture

Scenarios material, Central America:


Cambodia:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/38ob3nmsgrrhir8/Blo

g%201_climate%20diplomacy%20training_draft%2

01.docx?dl=0

Southeast Asian Parliamentary staff conducts

climate change-related studies:

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/southeast-asian-

parliamentary-staff-conducts-climate-change-

related-studies


https://www.slideshare.net/cgiarclimate/training-workshop-on-implementing-nationally-determined-contributions-ndc-commitments-in-agriculture





https://www.dropbox.com/s/38ob3nmsgrrhir8/Blog%201_climate%20diplomacy%20training_draft%201.docx?dl=0



https://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/southeast-asian-parliamentary-staff-conducts-climate-change-related-studies




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FP1 Outcome: # of

organizations and

institutions in

selected

countries/states

adapting plans and

directing investment

to optimize

consumption of

diverse nutrient-rich

foods, with all plans

and investments

examined for their

gender implications

Activities towards this outcome

include participatory scenarios-based

policy guidance work in all CCAFS

target regions that has resulted in

major policy outcomes. This work is

being developed through a greater

emphasis on food systems and food

and nutrition security, as well as using

foresight as a mechanism for inclusion

of gender and youth issues and

stakeholders, in Bangladesh and

Ethiopia. The IMPACT model extended

and applied to address livestock, fish

and nutrition. Such tools have an

important role to play in bridging the

science-policy divide and in helping to

evaluate the possible effects of

different actions on different

stakeholders.

2018 - State of the art

multi-level scenarios

methodology is tested by

downscaling scenarios to

national/state levels and

including food and

nutrition security

modelling outputs; tools

are developed for

different audiences

Complete IMPACT livestock data, code:

http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/kmcfws92mf.2

Human health and nutrition and red meat:

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204139

Food security and climate change policy:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0230-x

Can Ethiopia feed itself by 2050?:


Keeping human diets within environmental limits:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0594-0

2018 - Combined climate

and food and nutrition

security scenarios are

developed and being

used for multilevel policy

development in selected

countries/states, with

the process started in

one country to effect

relevant policy change

that takes into account

gender dimensions with

appropriate MEL systems

on policy effectiveness in

place

Extended Activities are still under way towards this milestone

(including in Ethiopia, Bangladesh).

One output for Bangladesh:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1ixi1gf63je9bq/A4N

H_Dhaka_Moghayer_v2%20JV.pptx?dl=0

FP1 Outcome: # of

countries/states

where CCAFS

CCAFS made priority-setting

contributions in more than six

countries. Models were applied to

2018 - Global and

regional models are

applied in two particular

Complete Bhutan: http://tiny.cc/d4uqaz

http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/kmcfws92mf.2

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204139

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0230-x


https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0594-0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1ixi1gf63je9bq/A4NH_Dhaka_Moghayer_v2%20JV.pptx?dl=0


http://tiny.cc/d4uqaz


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priority setting used

to target and

implement

interventions to

improve food and

nutrition security

under a changing

climate

help develop the strategic vision

document for Bhutan's agricultural

sector and investment plans for states

in Nepal and India. World Bank-led

climate-smart investment plans

developed for Mali and Cote d'Ivoire

with CGIAR science input. CCAFS

contributed to Colombia's Green

Growth Policy, and supported the

Central American Agricultural

Council’s (CAC) Executive Secretariat

in guiding implementation of their

CSA Strategy; the Colombian

Agriculture Institute (ICA), FAO and

the Economic Commission for Latin

American and the Caribbean aligned

their medium-term plans to support

its implementation. Household gender

methodology was implemented in one

country and is being expanded to

more countries, working with IFAD to

test a framework evaluating gender

and nutrition issues in agricultural

transformation.

countries facilitating

cross-level analyses and

used to analyze

relationships with other

sectors; this includes

integrating other

datasets from household

or other levels; joint

cross-CRP analysis on

specific agri-food

systems topics are

initiated

India: https://doi.org/10.5958/0974-

0279.2018.00028.9

India:

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/97898110817

05 (DOI:10.1007/978-981-10-8171-2)

India:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.04.008

2018 - Country level

recommendations for

policy alternatives are

being developed that

identify robust climate

smart strategies, while

taking priority setting

and trade-off analyses

into account

Complete Description of prioritized technologies, institutional

framework, and impact on green growth indicators

at the national level: https://goo.gl/sjFstu

Technical and policy recommendations to the

Green Growth Mission in Colombia:

https://goo.gl/CmXbEb

Climate change and nutrition in the Philippines:


Agriculture and climate change in the Philippines:

http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738c

oll5/id/6518

FP1 Outcome: # of

national/state

organizations and

institutions adapting

their plans and


Strong engagement to position gender

and CSA in national (Guatemala,

Honduras) and regional (CAC) agendas

in Central America. Support to Africa

Group of Negotiators submissions to

the UNFCCC on Gender. South Africa's

2018 - Gender and social

inclusion focused

components in CSA

priority setting

developed and tested;

improved modules

Complete Green Growth Policy, Colombia:

https://goo.gl/DH12yV

Kenya, AGN:

https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/SubmissionsStaging/

Documents/201805051255---

https://doi.org/10.5958/0974-0279.2018.00028.9

https://doi.org/10.5958/0974-0279.2018.00028.9



https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.04.008

https://goo.gl/sjFstu

https://goo.gl/CmXbEb


http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll5/id/6518

http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll5/id/6518

https://goo.gl/DH12yV

https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/SubmissionsStaging/Documents/201805051255---Kenya%20Submission%20on%20Gender%20and%20Climate%20Change%2025th%20April.pdf



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to increase women's

access to, and

control over,

productive assets

and resources

Department of Agriculture supporting

creation of community seed banks,

promoting the role of women in their

governance. Gender mainstreaming in

CC policy work Uganda and Ethiopia.

Innovative gaming work undertaken

with COP participants and youth.

Understanding current constraints to

gender inclusion in policy formulation

and implementation is a key

contribution to achieving the

outcome.

related to gender and

sex-disaggregated output

data from the integrated

assessment models

developed and tested

Kenya%20Submission%20on%20Gender%20and%2

0Climate%20Change%2025th%20April.pdf

Social inclusion in Honduras:


Gender inclusion in Latin America related to

Climate change and nutritional and food security:

in https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99828

Gender mainstreaming and smallholder

perceptions in Uganda:

https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93199 and


Climate tipping point game at COP:

https://theconversation.com/we-built-a-sim-of-

worlds-climate-battle-heres-what-happened-

when-delegates-played-it-at-cop24-108520

Game prototypes:

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/student-game-jam-

explores-complex-sustainability-problems

FP1 Outcome: $

USD new

investments by

state, national,

regional and global

agencies, informed

by CCAFS science

and engagement

In FY2018 the portfolio of new

agriculture projects at the World Bank

was worth US$ 4.1 billion. CGIAR

science was used in project design and

implementation activities amounting

to several hundred million dollars in

>20 lower-income countries, and 45%

of project budgets are dedicated to

activities and actions that are

contributing to making project

recipients/countries more resilient to

2018 - Novel tools

employed in comparative

analyses of the

effectiveness of current

and emerging climate-

related food and

nutrition security

policies, and of science-

policy exchange

processes and other

engagement

Complete New tools and analysis for climate risk assessment

in Malawi, Zambia:


New climate risk maps and tools, Southeast Asia:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9g0m7egddxma70f/

AAAlVq1DblJEc2r6JYlrJOOsa?dl=0

Multi-stakeholder platforms in East Africa:








https://theconversation.com/we-built-a-sim-of-worlds-climate-battle-heres-what-happened-when-delegates-played-it-at-cop24-108520



https://www.uu.nl/en/news/student-game-jam-explores-complex-sustainability-problems

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/student-game-jam-explores-complex-sustainability-problems


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9g0m7egddxma70f/AAAlVq1DblJEc2r6JYlrJOOsa?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9g0m7egddxma70f/AAAlVq1DblJEc2r6JYlrJOOsa?dl=0



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a changing climate, while contributing

to GHG emissions reductions. A

framework for implementing

transformational approaches to IFAD's

mainstreaming themes (climate and

environment, gender, nutrition and

youth) was developed, for informing

IFAD's future investments in CSA.

mechanisms that support

climate-smart outcomes

and gender equity

Platform synthesis science-policy divide:


Platforms and scenarios for transformation in West

Africa: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/89643

CCAFS' lessons on science-policy divide:


2018 - 'Good enough'

practice guidelines on

enabling policy

environments with

national planners and

relevant international

and regional

organizations on climate

change issues across

different sectors and

scales are developed and

disseminated; these

organizations make US$

100 million of new

investments on the basis

of CCAFS science

Complete Transformational approaches:


CCAFS knowledge and evidence inform World Bank

Group investments in agricultural development:


FP2

FP2 Outcome: #

policy decisions


on engagement and

information

dissemination by

CCAFS

The outcome target (10) has been

large exceeded. A total of 16 policy

decisions taken as a result of CCAFS

science were reported in 2018, of

which 81% are considered Level 2 in

maturity. These include incorporation

of CSA concepts into development

2018 - 10 country

profiles in Sub-Saharan

Africa and South Asia

developed; strategic

engagement with

subnational government;

capacity building and

Complete By the end of 2018, CSA Country Profiles have

been develop for 21 countries across Sub-Saharan

Africa and Asia (Africa: Benin, Côte d’Ivoire,

Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Rwanda,

Senegal, Tanzania, The Gambia, Uganda, Zambia

and Zimbabwe; Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan,







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plans at national level (Kenya Climate

Smart Agriculture Implementation

Framework and Philippine Medium

Term Development Plan), and local

levels (e.g. Guinayangan, Quezon

Comprehensive Development Plan

Municipal Agriculture Office Banner

Programs). Level 3 maturity in Root

Capital's Expected Impact Rating

system, which has been used to

review and close 251 loans, including

199 loans totaling US$ 146 million to

coffee and cocoa businesses.

training plan co-

developed with the

Africa Climate Smart

Agriculture Alliance;

workshops on climate-

smart local development

planning

Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the

Philippines, and Vietnam).

2018 - New CSA

knowledge products

made available for

partners and updated

CSA compendiums

(approximately 50,000

data points)

Complete The African Compendium Dataset was redone and

completed in 2018. It will be made publically

available in 2019, following release of first scientific

publications. Already, it is being used for

development (e.g., in the CSA investment plans).

FP2 Outcome: 15

development

organizations, with

the focus on

investments for CSA

activities, adapting

their plans or


to increase women's

access to, and

control over,

productive assets

and resources.

The outcome target has been

exceeded with 24 organizations

reached by CCAFS outputs. The

governments of Cote d'Ivoire and Mali

who have developed plans to guide

investments into CSA, which include

gender and youth inclusion concerns.

CCAFS has influenced the US$ 2 billion

investment by ADB into CSA, the

Tanzania CSA Guideline and the Kenya

CSA Framework Programme.

Additionally, in West Africa

development institutions

(CORAF/WECARD, ECOWAS, UEMOA)

using CCAFS-informed equitable and

transformative CSA options to plan

initiatives in four countries (Burkina

2018 - Evidence on the

gender and youth related

motivations, aspirations,

opportunities,

challenges, and

associated benefits

related to specific

technologies and

practices informing

subnational adaptation

plans and development

initiatives addressing

gender equity

Complete A book "Gender dimensions of climate change

research for agriculture: Case studies in Southeast

Asia" explores men and women farmers

vulnerabilities and coping mechanisms or

adaptation measures. Analysis of gender

disaggregated CSA adoption trends in Tuma-La

Dalia in Nicaragua.

2018 - Socially

differentiated financial

vehicles and incentive

Complete Alternative financial delivery channel (VSLA) and

financial technology (blockchain) tested with CARE

and SNV in their target sites; two CSVs testing


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Faso, Ghana, Niger and Senegal) for

large investments for 1.5 million

farmers that increase women's (at

least 30% women) and youth control

over productive assets and resources.

mechanisms identified

and tested across three

CSVs; checklist on gender

aspects for informing

policymakers

financial instruments (including voluntary savings

groups); and impact investment innovations tested

and scaled out through Root Capital and others.

FP2 Outcome: 15

sub-national

public/private

initiatives providing

access to novel

financial services

and supporting

innovative CSA

business models

Major achievement on this front in

2018 with 8 initiatives informed by

CCAFS outputs. Training materials for

both cocoa and coffee climate risk

assessment are in use by voluntary

certification agencies (Rainforest

Alliance) in Ghana and Ivory Coast

(cocoa) and Peru (coffee and cocoa),

private sector extension teams (Ghana

and Ivory Coast, cocoa; Uganda,

coffee), other projects (Alliance for

Resilient Coffee, Honduras,

Guatemala, Uganda). Training

materials for Council on Smallholder

Agricultural Finance developed in

2018 and piloted connecting CSA

practice implementation with

producer organization finance in

Guatemala (Root Capital). Extension

apps used by private sector in Ghana

(cocoa) and Uganda (coffee).

2018 - Multi-stakeholder

platforms established

including representatives

from different groups

and actors of the value

chain and participatory

modeling workshops

held with decision

makers to create

investment portfolios

Complete Multi-stakeholder platforms established across

West Africa target countries for CSA planning. For

cocoa related work, climate risk assessments and

adaptation planning results handed over to multi-

stakeholder platforms managed by World Cocoa

Foundation, and in Peru with the Chamber of

Commerce. CSA investment plans completed for

Ivory Coast and Mali.

2018 - Range of

innovative finance

options for incentivizing

CSA identified for robust

testing in CSVs; two

financial vehicles

incorporating CSA

practices in cocoa or

coffee value chains in

use by financial

institutions; good

practice guidelines and

monitoring approach for

CSA certification;

workshops with

Complete Workshop held with range of climate finance

institutions, and paper on key innovative financing

mechanisms to scale up CSA finalized. Workshop

held with 12 Council of Smallholder Agricultural

Finance members on how to incorporate climate

and deforestation risk in loan due diligence

processes, and out-scaled significantly by Root

Capital.


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certification trainers

from private sector and

NGOs

FP2 Outcome: 50

site-specific

targeted CSA

options

(technologies,

practices and

services) tested and

examined for their

gender implications

94 CSA practices tested and/or

evaluated across the Climate Smart

Village (CSV) network: 63 with gender

dimensions assessed and 45 with

mitigation potential. Numerous

publications summarizing results,

including analysis of the effect of

combinations of practices (portfolios)

in South Asia. Gender dimensions of

CSA practices assessed through CSV

monitoring in nine sites, and for over

30 practices. Significant outscaling

achieved for some practices. For

example, science-based evidence

helped the Indian Government to

prioritize crop residues management

solutions and establish a large scale

investment of INR 1150 crores for in-

situ management using the Happy

Seeder technology. This scheme

targets increased incomes for 2

million farmers.

2018 - Structural and

functional farm

household and farming

systems typologies

developed across/within

sites for targeting CSA

technologies and

practices and potential

domains for targeting

CSA options identified

and refined in East Africa

and South Asia

Complete 94 CSA practices evaluated across the CSV

network: 63 with gender dimensions assessed and

45 with mitigation potential. Household typologies

and farm systems modelling results published for

South Asia CSV sites. CSA-Dx (derived product from

Compendium) implemented at three sites that

produce farmer-relevant data including gender and

socio-economics of CSA.

2018 - Participatory ex-

ante scenario

assessment conducted to

understand possible

trajectories towards

incorporation of CSA

practice portfolios within

gender differentiated

livelihoods; multi-

temporal scale prediction

of best practices in Latin

America

Extended M&E system was implemented in Latin America

CSVs. In Cauca CSV, community leaders and local

partner are currently making use of that

information for their planning and decision-making

processes based on key indicators. Studies in

Nicaragua were delayed due to the unstable

political situation.

FP2 Outcome: 6

million farm

households

Science-based evidence generated by

CCAFS-CIMMYT partners in the CSVs

helped the Indian Government to

2018 - CSA

technologies/practices

successfully piloted in

Complete Agreements with three different state actors in

India now outscaling the CSV approach, with

outscaling program on residue management


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receiving incentives

(training, financial,

programmatic,

policy-related) for

adopting CSA

related practices

and technologies

that potentially

reduce production

risks with increased

benefits for women

prioritize crop residues management

solutions and establish a large scale

investment of INR 1150 crores for in-

situ management using the Happy

Seeder technology. This scheme

targets an increased incomes for over

2 million farmers, improving soil

health, reducing water use and carbon

footprints on 4 million hectares. In

Latin America, climate specific

management systems are estimated

to be delivering actionable advisories

to 500,000 farmers. Through UTZ

certification schemes, an estimated

2.3 million farmers are receiving

incentives for adoption of CSA

practices based on CCAFS science.

1000 out-scale sites in

South Asia by two

subnational governments

and private sector

agencies, and three

strategic public-private

partnerships established

in East and West Africa

for wide scale adoption

by at least 300,000

farmers

targeting 2 million farmers. In West Africa, approx.

2.3 million farmers estimated to be receiving

incentives for CSA adoption through UTZ

certification schemes, in addition to development

program EU/IFAD investments.

2018 - Climate sensitive

extension schemes and

climate-site-specific

advisory systems for

farmers tested across

CSVs in West and East

Africa, South Asia and

Latin America

Complete Training materials for coffee and cocoa in use in

multiple countries (Ghana, Peru, Honduras,

Guatemala, Uganda), mobile application releases in

Uganda in use by 4,000 farmers and three private

partners. 500,000 farmers now accessing climate

specific advisories in Latin America.

FP3

FP3 Outcome: # of

low emissions plans

developed that have

significant

mitigation potential

for 2030, i.e. will

contribute to at

least 5% GHG

emissions reduction

or reach at least

In 2018, CCAFS research informed

measurement, reporting and

verification (MRV), finance and

technical options for projects and

policies in Vietnam, Colombia, Kenya,

India, Thailand, Mexico, Bangladesh,

Tanzania, and Indonesia, as well as

standards for the private sector

(International Fertilizer Association).

Government capacities for Tier 2 MRV

2018 - Piloting of

economic and social

incentives to adopt

mitigation practices

(livestock, rice, fertilizer,

soil management)

Complete Vietnam paddy rice: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/no-

regret-mitigation-strategies-rice-production

Kenya gender:


https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2018.1449488

Kenya livestock improved feed investment case:

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/research-

highlight/investment-case-reducing-livestock-

emission-intensities-east-africa

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/no-regret-mitigation-strategies-rice-production

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/no-regret-mitigation-strategies-rice-production


https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2018.1449488

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/research-highlight/investment-case-reducing-livestock-emission-intensities-east-africa




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10,000 farmers,

with all plans

examined for their

gender implications

of livestock were strengthened for 15

to 20 countries to help with Nationally

Determined Contribution reporting of

Indonesia. Tools and resources (food

loss and waste calculator, MRV

resource webpage, SECTOR rice

greenhouse gas calculator) were

developed. Gender research on

women in savings and loans

organizations for agroforestry supply

chains and for women in the informal

dairy market was conducted. Food

loss and waste action research was

delayed. Milestone was met and

progress towards outcome targets

made in five countries.

Vietnam gender: Simelton email, provided under

milestone reporting CERES investor guidance:

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/measure-chain-tools-

managing-ghg-emissions-agricultural-supply-chains

Business case development:

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/invest

COP23 event on finance:

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/cop23-side-event-climate-

contingent-finance-emerging-instruments-

mitigation-agriculture

2018 - Proof of concept

of mitigation practices

for N management, rice,

and livestock provided to

focal countries based on

field trials and scenarios

Complete Nitrogen fertilizer minimum requirements:


AWD in rice in Vietnam:

http://ghgmitigation.irri.org/our-work/vietnam

Livestock:


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.06.011


https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2018.1449488

LED practices generally:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-

9326/aab0b0/pdf

FLW: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98238

2018 - Improved options

for global donors to

Complete East Africa Dairy NAMA (in proposal phase)

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/measure-chain-tools-managing-ghg-emissions-agricultural-supply-chains

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/measure-chain-tools-managing-ghg-emissions-agricultural-supply-chains

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/invest

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/cop23-side-event-climate-contingent-finance-emerging-instruments-mitigation-agriculture




http://ghgmitigation.irri.org/our-work/vietnam


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.06.011


https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2018.1449488

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aab0b0/pdf

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aab0b0/pdf



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support LED and

agricultural climate

readiness, with options

examined for gender

implications

Hay production:


Gender in dairy and low emissions livestock

recommendations:


https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2018.1449488

Extension opportunities:



Access to and supply of finance for Kenya dairy

productivity: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93409

ADB training (CCAFS-wide): https://k-

learn.adb.org/learning-events/climate-smart-

agriculture-training-practitioners

MDB guidance on soil organic carbon (SOC)

indicators: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97613

SOC: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93146

FP3 Outcome: # of

organizations

adapting their plans

or directing

investment to

increase women's

participation in

decision-making

about LED in

agriculture

With the Global Research Alliance and

US Agency for International

Development co-funding, CCAFS

awarded a record 33 Climate Food

and Farming - Global Research

Alliance Development Scholarships

(CLIFF-GRADS) fellowships, including

17 women. An additional nine (five

women) CLIFF-GRADS recipients

received awards in March and

conducted research in 2018. In

2018 - Comparison of

LED-related livelihood

options for women and

their mitigation co-

benefits (e.g. in dairy

sector)

Complete Gender in dairy and low emissions livestock

recommendations:


https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2018.1449488



https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2018.1449488




https://k-learn.adb.org/learning-events/climate-smart-agriculture-training-practitioners






https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2018.1449488


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Vietnam, led by the World

Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) and CARE,

300 women in two provinces in Village

Savings and Loan Organizations

received training in agroforestry and

in gender dynamics to participate

more effectively in the coffee value

chain. In Kenya, analysis of women's

role in the informal dairy market and

dairy household dynamics informed

Kenya's Dairy Development Board's

gender strategy and the Dairy

Nationally Appropriate Mitigation

Action (NAMA). Moderate progress

toward outcomes, with at least five

organizations adapting plans to

increase women's participation.

FP3 Outcome: # of

policy decisions


on engagement and

information

dissemination by

CCAFS

International Rice Research Institute

(IRRI) supported Alternate Wetting

and Drying (AWD) upscaling in

Bangladesh and Vietnam. The World

Agroforestry Center (ICRAF)

supported action research on

agroforestry measurement, reporting

and verification (MRV) with Colombia

and Vietnam, producing a major

synthesis of global agroforestry MRV

practices, and an outcome on the

contribution of agroforestry to the

Nationally Determined Contribution

for Vietnam. CCAFS' low emission

2018 - MRV

methodology for

livestock available to

partner countries

Complete Ruminant MRV in Colombia:


Agroforestry MRV global review:


MRV resource website:


Livestock Tier 2 MRV global review (2017):

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/guidance-national-and-

activity-level-reporting-greenhouse-gas-emissions-

and-mitigation

Livestock Tier 2 Activity Data workshop July 2019,

and presentations Tier 2 MRV findings:




https://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/guidance-national-and-activity-level-reporting-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-mitigation





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development flagship (FP3) organized

an activity-data workshop with ~15

country MRV experts, and

representatives from the Global

Research Alliance(GRA), the UN Food

and Agriculture Organization (FAO),

Wageningen University and Research

(WUR), and UN Framework

Convention on Climate Change

(UNFCCC). Two significant MRV

projects were launched in China, one

to improve national guidance on Tier

2 emissions estimates (with the

Chinese Academy of Agricultural

Sciences [CAAS] and GRA) and one

producing a footprinting tool and

analysis for livestock sustainability

interventions (CAAS, Chinese

Agricultural University, Wageningen

University and Research, producers).

MRV resources clearinghouse website

created with GRA. Capacity for

improved policy enhanced in at least

ten countries, contributing to good

progress on outcome.

https://www.slideshare.net/cgiarclimate/advanced

-mrv-to-capture-mitigation-impacts-recent-

analysis-and-tools

2018 - Improved

emission models and

factors (e.g. for N2O

emissions) and LED

suitability maps

disseminated in partner

countries

Complete Twenty new measured emissions factors and 118

reported emissions factors from the CCAFS

Compendium were added to SAMPLES:

https://samples.ccafs.cgiar.org/

Global N database (dashboard now developed):

http://35.154.104.110:3838/

Paddy rice information kiosk:

https://sites.google.com/a/irri.org/ccac/

WBCSD training on metrics:

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/impactful-and-

measurable-progress-climate-smart-

agriculture-corporate-value-chains

FP3 Outcome: # of

agricultural

development

initiatives where

CCAFS science is

used to target and

CCAFS' Flagship 3 supported country

initiatives in Colombia (mitigation in

livestock), Mexico (fertilizer

efficiency), Vietnam (agroforestry

measurement, reporting and

verification (MRV), agroforestry

2018 - Analysis of LED

(livestock systems, rice,

fertilizer) synergies with

food security

development and

suitability by geographic

Complete AWD analysis in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Thailand,

Philippines: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/ghg-mitigation-

rice-information-kiosk

http://ghgmitigation.irri.org/

https://www.slideshare.net/cgiarclimate/advanced-mrv-to-capture-mitigation-impacts-recent-analysis-and-tools



https://samples.ccafs.cgiar.org/

http://35.154.104.110:3838/

https://sites.google.com/a/irri.org/ccac/

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/impactful-and-measurable-progress-climate-smart-agriculture-corporate-value-chains



https://ccafs.cgiar.org/ghg-mitigation-rice-information-kiosk

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/ghg-mitigation-rice-information-kiosk

http://ghgmitigation.irri.org/


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implement

interventions to

increase input

efficiency

mitigation potential, alternative

wetting and drying (AWD) scaling and

investment), Bangladesh (AWD), China

(MRV, greenhouse gas footprint), and

Kenya (dairy investment, mitigation

scenarios) that inform Nationally

Determined Contributions and

support monitoring of their progress.

Work in Bangladesh with Climate and

Clean Air Coalition funding to the

International Rice Research Institute

has successfully focused on scaling up

AWD through grassroots capacity

building and the preparation of

technical manuals. Analysis of cattle

certification for mitigation in Brazil

identified key barriers to scaling.

Progress in at least six countries is

supporting outcome targets

region, production

system and farmer

characteristics in 5–8

countries

https://www.nama-facility.org/projects/thailand-

thai-rice-nama/

Gender studies from 2018 and prior years:






Livestock in Kenya:





Livestock in Colombia:


Fertilizer in India:

https://www.cimmyt.org/news/study-reveals-new-

opportunities-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-

india/ (2017)

2018 - Analysis of the

causes of FLW in priority

value chains and related

drivers of emissions

reductions

Extended FLW business case analysis: This delay is due to a

performance issue involving the former FLW

research leader in 2016-2018. WUR has been

responsive and appointed a new FLW leader in the

last quarter of 2018

https://www.nama-facility.org/projects/thailand-thai-rice-nama/

https://www.nama-facility.org/projects/thailand-thai-rice-nama/











https://www.cimmyt.org/news/study-reveals-new-opportunities-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-india/




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FP4

FP4 Outcome: 8 of

million farm

households with

improved access to

capital, with

increased benefits

for women

(millions)

The agCelerant smallholder value-

chain platform (ICRISAT, P46)

provided over 50,000 farmers with

insurance, finance, inputs and

advisories. Commitments were

secured, in 2018, by Nigeria's Federal

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural

Development (FMARD) to scale up to

15 million farmers, and by the Islamic

Development Bank (IDB) to reach 2

million in the 2019–2024 Regional

Rice Value Chain Program (10

countries). International Maize and

Wheat Improvement Center

(CIMMYT) and IRI (P41) supported an

insurance provider serving more than

600,000 farmers in Africa to develop

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

protocols and to improve design and

marketing. FP4 and International Food

Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (P266)

initiated an insurance community of

practice through webinars and raised

visibility through InsuResilience Global

Partnership, activities at

Microinsurance Conference and

COP24.

2018 -

National/subnational

initiatives incorporate

flood insurance products

in disaster risk reduction

financing solutions in

collaboration with

insurance industry and

governments

Complete IWMI (P41) piloted flood insurance in 17 villages

(1000 households) in Muzaffarpur District, Bihar,

India. It has been adopted by Bihar Disaster

Management Department and at national level by

Ministry of Agriculture - Farmer’s Welfare, as

evidenced by co-financing; and by a World Bank

project proposal for Assam (OCIR2654).

2018 - Scaling of

weather-related

agricultural insurance in

West Africa

Changed ICRISAT (P46) supported development of

agCelerant platform to scale up insurance within a

suite of value chain services. Nigeria’s FMARD

endorsed an insurance roadmap (in 2017),

developed with FL4 (P266), CIMMYT (P51), and

CCAFS West Africa (P255), but shifted its strategy

to partner with agCelerant to scale up insurance

(OICR2702).

FP4 Outcome: 40 of

institutions or major

initiatives that use

CCAFS research

outputs for services

FP4 engagement and research

outputs contributed to significant

advances in 2018, by at least 41

institutions, in services or projects

that support farm households’

2018 – National

meteorological services

and regional climate

institutions implement

new climate information

Complete New climate information was achieved in 2017

(2017 OICR on African met institutions), enhanced

in 2018 at ICPAC, AGRHYMET, Meteo-Rwanda

(P266, P363). Scaling communication was achieved

through PICSA adoption in 17 countries


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that support farm

households'

management of

climatic risks

management of climatic risks. These

included National Meteorological

Services, Regional Climate Centers;

government ministries, agencies and

departments; farmer and community

organizations; development NGOs;

private insurance; agribusiness and

communication companies; and

development donors. (Evidence: P41,

P42, P46, P48, P51, P25, P266, P363).

or climate-related early

warning

products/platforms

targeting agricultural

decision-makers; NARES

and other farmer

intermediary

organizations implement

new participatory and

ICT-based

communication channels

scaled up for rural

climate services

(OICR2583), radio programming in Senegal (P46)

and Rwanda (OICR2144), ICT-based advisories in

India (P259) and Nepal CSVs (OICR181).

FP4 Outcome: $

USD new

investments by

state, national,

regional and global

agencies, informed

by CCAFS science

and engagement

Engagement of major climate service

funders included participation in

United States Agency for International

Development (USAID) Learning

Agenda for Climate Services in Sub-

Saharan Africa, which aims to

strengthen knowledge and evidence

base for investment in agricultural

climate services in Africa. Progress

was also made in shaping pan-Africa

climate research strategy through

Climate Research for Development

(CR4D) Africa; in discussions with

Department for International

Development (DFID) on its climate

service investment programs in Africa

and South Asia; and in project-focused

discussions with donors including

World Bank, European Union (EU),

2018 - Science-policy

engagement processes,

guidance policy briefs

inform new climate

service investments in

CCAFS regions

Extended Progress was made engaging USAID and DFID on

climate service investment strategy and on

discussions with World Bank, EU, Adaptation Fund,

and IFAD about projects. Through USAID’s Learning

Agenda for Climate Services in Sub-Saharan Africa,

FP4 drafted publications (some to be published in

2019) that aim to inform climate service

investment/implementation.

2018 - CCAFS cost-

benefit analyses,

methods, guidance

integrated into African

Climate Policy Center

(ACPC) guidance to

Africa-focused climate

service investors

Extended Building on FP4 investment in its design/launch,

ongoing CCAFS East Africa engagement of the

Climate Research for Development Africa initiative,

coordinated by ACPC, contributed to its 2018–2022

strategic plan to prioritize and catalyze climate

research responsive to development needs across

Africa (OCIR21). Work on cost-benefit analyses and

methods extended into 2019.


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Adaptation Fund, and the

International Fund for Agricultural

Development (IFAD). Work on ex-ante

cost-benefit analysis to inform

agricultural climate service investment

did not progress sufficiently to

contribute significantly to guiding

climate service investment.

FP4 Outcome: 20 of

development

organizations

adapting their plans

and directing

investment to

increase women's

access to, and

control over,

productive assets

and resources

through gender-

sensitive climate-

based advisories

and safety nets

In P42, Bioversity research on gender-

differentiated impacts of climate risk

on food security informed the design

of Guatemala’s food security

monitoring and early warning system.

In P51, as a result of project

engagement, a major agricultural

insurance provider, which services

about 600,000 farmers across Africa,

increased their attention to women

and other under-served farmer groups

in their product design and

Monitoring and Evaluation. In P363,

the development of rural climate

services in Rwanda aims at gender

balance in intermediaries trained and

farmers engaged, and gives attention

to gender in its Monitoring and

Evaluation.

2018 - Based on

assessment of current

FP4 project portfolio and

opportunities, an

adjusted project

portfolio will target

research and

engagement that will

lead to increased efforts,

by at least 10 additional

development

organizations, to

increase women's

participation in decision-

making about climate

services and safety nets

Complete 2019 project planning identifies 11 next users that

will increase women's participation in decision-

making about climate services and safety nets.

FP4 Outcome: # of

policy decisions


on engagement and

Advances in policy: 1) shaping Climate

Research for Development Africa

2018-2022 Strategic Plan (OICR#21);

2) Adoption of Local Technical

2018 - National planners

in at least one country

supported to incorporate

CCAFS-informed climate

Changed National planners in two countries (Nepal -

OICR181 - and Colombia - OICR2628) supported to

incorporate CCAFS-informed climate services,


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information

dissemination by

CCAFS

Agroclimatic Committees approach in

Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk

Management in Agriculture

Sector/Food and Nutrition Security in

Latin America/Caribbean

(OICR#2571); 3) adoption of

community-based food security

monitoring and early warning system

by Guatemalan Secretariat for

Food/Nutrition Security, formalized by

National Council for Food/Nutrition

Security (OICR#151); 4) adoption of

CS-MAP climate-risk related maps and

adaptation plans by Ministry of

Agriculture/Rural Development to

adjust rice planting calendar

(OICR#2600); and 5) progress in

developing National Climate Service

Frameworks in Rwanda (OICR#2098)

and Colombia.

services, insurance

and/or safety nets into

CSA/adaptation

investment portfolios for

international climate

finance providers that

meet funding

requirements

insurance and/or safety nets into CSA/adaptation

investment portfolios for national funding.

2018 - Agro-Climatic Risk

Management approach

and local Agroclimatic

Committees formalized

in Colombia’s agriculture

policy

Complete Prior adoption of the LATC approach by Colombia

has been extended regionally (OICR2571).


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Table 5: Numbers of peer-reviewed publications from current reporting period

Number Percent

Peer-Reviewed publications 168 100%

Open Access 119 70.83%

ISI 157 93.45%

For the full list of peer-reviewed publications, please refer to the following link: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101129



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Table 6: Participants in CapDev Activities

Number of trainees Female Male

In short-term programs facilitated by CRP 292,362 412,125

In long-term programs facilitated by CRP 398,035 306,452


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Table 7: Key external partnerships

Lead FP Brief description of partnership aims (30 words) List of key partners in partnership. Do not use

acronyms.

Main area of partnership (may

choose multiple)

FP1 Formulation, coordination and adoption of the policies, plans,

programs and projects for the Agricultural, Fisheries and Rural

Development sector, including scaling up of climate actions in

agriculture.

• MADR - Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo

Rural (Colombia)

• Development

• Policy

FP1 Secondment of FP1 staff to the World Bank to facilitate linkages

between CGIAR research and the Bank's agriculture portfolio.

• The World Bank • Capacity

• Delivery

FP1 Development and delivery of materials and training courses on

NDCs in target regions and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit

• NEPAD - New Partnership for African

Development

• Capacity

• Development

FP1 Learning alliance for adaptation in agriculture, and joint efforts

focused on climate-nutrition interface, scaling up private sector

investments, gender transformative approaches, and South-South

cooperation.

• IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural

Development

• Capacity

• Delivery

• Development

FP2 Incorporation of CCAFS climate science into the Rainforest Alliance

voluntary certification scheme.

• Rainforest Alliance • Capacity

• Development

• Delivery

FP2 Scientific inputs into the CSA program, including metrics for

measuring CSA progress, prioritization at the regional level, soil

carbon, and global policy engagement.

• WBCSD - World Business Council for

Sustainable Development

• Capacity

• Delivery

• Development


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FP2 Integrations of CSA approaches and exposure maps into decision-

making by Root Capital and the Council on Smallholder Agricultural

Finance.

• Root Capital • Capacity

• Development

FP2 Work on sustainable intensification of plant production in Sub-

Saharan Africa, business models and financial incentives for CSA,

biological nitrogen fixation for smallholders, and modelling of

CCAFS scenarios.

• WUR - Wageningen University and Research • Research

FP3 Scientific inputs into the CSA program, including metrics for

measuring CSA progress, prioritization at the regional level, soil

carbon, and global policy engagement.

• WBCSD - World Business Council for

Sustainable Development

• Capacity

• Delivery

• Development

FP3 Research, capacity development and policy engagement. Included

joint engagement in UNFCCC processes, scaling out CSA at the

regional and global levels, and addressing emissions from the

livestock sector.

• FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of

the United Nations

• Research

• Policy

FP3 Collaboration on improving understanding among countries of Tier

2 MRV practices for livestock; support of capacity building through

PhD research.

• Global Research Alliance on Agricultural

Greenhouse Gases

• Policy

• Research

FP3 Support to KDB and State Department of Livestock in developing a

dairy NAMA and for submission to the Green Climate Fund.

• KDB - Kenya Dairy Board • Capacity

• Delivery

FP4 Development and support for use of CRAFT tool. • UF - University of Florida • Delivery

• Development

FP4 Development and implementation of tools and products used in

the PICSA approach.

• University of Reading • Capacity

• Delivery

• Development


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FP4 Collaboration on Global Framework for Climate Services, including

supporting countries to develop national level plans.

• WMO - World Meteorological Organization • Development

• Policy

• Capacity

FP4 In East Africa, development of expanded suite of gridded, online

regional historic and forecast climate information products tailored

to agricultural needs. Coordination of introduction of new products

through Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum.

• ICPAC - IGAD Climate Prediction and

Applications Centre

• Capacity

• Delivery

FP4 In West Africa, development of expanded suite of gridded, online

regional historic and forecast climate information products tailored

to agricultural needs. Coordination of introduction of new products

through regional Climate Outlook Forum process.

• AGRHYMET - Centre regional AGRHYMET • Capacity

• Delivery


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Table 8: Internal Cross-CGIAR Collaborations

Brief description of the collaboration Name(s) of collaborating

CRP(s), Platform(s) or

Center(s)

Optional: Value added, in a

few words

Several links between FP1 and A4NH: (1) a systematic review on how climate change interacts with inequity

and risk to affect nutrition, to be published in 2019 ; (2) a CCAFS working paper on "Setting priorities to

address the research gaps between agricultural systems analysis and food security outcomes in low- and

middle-income countries" (also with Cornell, University of Michigan, Bergen University, Swedish University of

Agricultural Sciences, and Bioversity); (3) joint scenarios modelling work with Utrecht University and WUR in

Bangladesh and Ethiopia, as reported in P274 (see, for example,

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1ixi1gf63je9bq/A4NH_Dhaka_Moghayer_v2%20JV.pptx?dl=0); (4)

collaboration on GCAN Policy Note 10, "The impact of rising carbon dioxide levels on crop nutrients and

human health", published in 2018 (http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/132733)

A4NH Bringing new skills in

modelling and nutrition

into CCAFS

Collaboration under LP1 of CCAFS, “Ex-ante evaluation and decision support for climate-smart options",

under FP1. Activities in 2018 included the following: (1) publication of a paper, "A framework for priority-

setting in climate smart agriculture research", Agricultural Systems 167:161-175, 2018, as a result of a

writing workshop held in 2017, involving 17 authors, eight CRPs/Centers and five external partners (CSIRO,

IRI, WUR, World Bank, University of Minnesota); (2) collaborative inputs to a NUI Galway MSc thesis

"Targeting new climate-resilient feeds and forages in the smallholder mixed farming systems of East Africa",

Mercy Fakude, 2018, and development of a joint activity to take this work further with funds from

LIVESTOCK CRP in 2019; (3) finalising a paper for Agricultural Systems on "Impact of climate change on future

availability of forage grass species for Ethiopian dairy systems", K. Kekae (MSc thesis project from 2017); (4)

planning for a workshop to be held in early 2019 on "Breeding foresight: exploring opportunities around

climate-smart breeding for future food and nutrition security" .

BIOVERSITY, CIAT, CIMMYT,

CIP, EiB, IFPRI, ILRI, IRRI,

Livestock, Maize, PIM, Rice,

RTB, Wheat

Better and more

comprehensive scientific

papers

In FP2 several inter-Center and inter-CRP collaborations were materialized around LP 2, “Participatory

evaluation of CSA practices and portfolios in CSVs”, which involved CIAT, CIMMYT, ICRAF, Bioversity, IITA,

ICRISAT, ILRI, IRRI, IWMI, and World Fish. Thematic areas of pursued collaboration included low emission rice

cultivars and water management (IRRI, RICE), trials on a new orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties rich in

beta-carotene to address vitamin A deficiency (CIP, RTB), biological nitrification inhibitors (MAIZE, WHEAT),

CIP, ICRAF, ICRISAT, IITA,

ILRI, IRRI, IWMI, WorldFish,

A4NH, BigData, FTA,

Genebank, Livestock, Fish,

Maize, PIM, Rice, RTB,

Scientific and efficiency

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agroforestry and soil carbon (WLE, FTA, ICRAF), bio-fortification (A4NH), MRV in livestock (LIVESTOCK, ILRI,

CIAT, CIFOR, FTA), and weather related insurance (PIM). Other activities include a community seedbank

linked to CGIAR Genebank Platform established in East Africa in partnership with Bioversity; and a climate

risk profiling and climate vulnerability assessment developed with ICRISAT, CIAT and WLE. CCAFS led inter-

Center collaborative work in order to implement a joint evaluation of 93 CSA practices (45 with mitigation

potential) across the CSV network (See https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100237). Those practices included

agroforestry, agronomy, aquaculture, crop/soil/water/nutrient/energy management, livestock, genetic

improvement (incl. bio-fortification) and post-harvest options. Other fruitful collaborations beyond the LP

included: (1) in LAM, collaborative work among CIAT, CIMMYT and the Big Data Platform on data analytics to

deliver better CSA advice and climate-site-specific agronomy recommendations (Mexican MasAgro

program); (2) collaboration with Roots and Tubers around capacity building and improvement of the

ClimMob digital platform for scaled on-farm farmer-participatory evaluations of agricultural climate

adaptation options ; (3) in South Asia collaborative work with WHEAT CRP generated science evidence which

supported the Government of India’s new scheme for no-burning management solutions for rice crop

residues and the increased adoption of Happy Seeder (no-till) covering 0.8 million ha in the northwest of the

country; (4) agriculture based index created to understand the behavioral approach of women towards

adoption of climate-smart practices and study undertaken on factors determining the adoption of laser land

leveling in the irrigated rice-wheat system in Haryana ; and (5) in Southeast Asia collaborative work with RICE

CRP on water management of rice production and with FTA (together with ICRAF) on the development of an

ex-ante approach for estimating the mitigation potential and investment necessary to scale-up agroforestry

under Vietnam’s NDC. Research outputs also supported province level agriculture planning informed by

seasonal forecasts and investment in CSA with potential to benefit over 200,000 farmers and the

development of ASEAN guidelines for agroforestry development lines for agroforestry development.

Wheat, WLE, BIOVERSITY,

CIAT, CIMMYT

Together with WLE and FTA, developed concept notes for SOC and production of an Info Note on indicators

for monitoring climate finance for SOC. Collaboration started in 2017 with a webinar and workshop to pull

together soil carbon work across the CGIAR. This involved also about six Centers (listed at right below the

main collaborators).

WLE, FTA

Also: CIAT, CIFOR, CIMMYT,

ICRAF, IITA, IRRI

Brought together people

with shared interest in SOC

across Centers to plan

potential collaborative

research and learn about

current global initiatives

IFPRI (Berber Kramer) was commissioned to facilitate the Weather-Related Insurance Learning Platform by

fostering a community of practice across the CGIAR and by raising visibility with external insurance

IFPRI, PIM

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initiatives. Key accomplishments include initiating a community of practice webinar series, organizing a side

event and sessions at the International Microinsurance Conference in Zambia, and participating in an

InsuResilience Global Partnership event at COP24. At the Zambia conference, the LP organized three events:

1) workshop with Innovations for Poverty Action to bring together implementers of existing/pipeline

insurance activities with social scientists to develop joint research; 2) side-meeting with CGIAR

researchers/partners to create a platform to share findings from insurance projects and identify

collaboration; 3) session on lessons from CGIAR research for scaling agricultural insurance. Berber Kramer

received a small networking grant from CCAFS, which partially supported these events. An innovation

(picture-based insurance) that draws on the work of the LP and Berber Kramer was reported by PIM.

ILRI, IFPRI, CIAT, CIMMYT,

ICRISAT, and IRRI also

attended the workshop

and side meeting.

sharing and coordination

and improved visibility of

CGIAR work with external

initiatives

Organized the 'Agriculture Advantage 2.0: Transforming food systems under a changing climate' event series

at COP24, which brought together efforts of CGIAR and non-CGIAR partners into a single effort of seven

events over a week, showcasing opportunities for climate action in agriculture.

IWMI, WLE, RTB, CIP, CIAT,

ICARDA

Efficiency and

communications benefits


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Table 9: Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Impact Assessment (MELIA)

Studies/learning exercises

planned for this year (from

POWB)

Status Type of study or activity Please include links to MELIA publications here.

S11 - Impact evaluation of

crowdsourcing variety

evaluation

Ongoing Adoption study A draft impact assessment report is available for internal use. The data show good impact

in India. The report will be converted into a brief and a journal manuscript in the course

of 2019. This is part of an impact evaluation study led by Elisabetta Gotor.

S61 - Emerging adoption

patterns of CSA in CSVs

Ongoing Effectiveness study See deliverable 12896: Between February and December 2018 the CSV Monitoring

Framework was implemented by locally trained enumerators across eight CSV sites in

Latin America, East Africa and South Asia, interviewing over 2,300 farmers using the

Smart Monitoring App for data collection. This report presents preliminary results of the

analysis highlighting adoption of CSA options by 1,800 farmers, and illustrates examples

of the effects of the top three CSA options on livelihoods level indicators, including one

that assesses the gender dimension (impact on labor).

S141 - Ex-ante impact

assessment of climate services

for agriculture in a bean

growing area of Colombia

Complete Effectiveness study An ex-ante impact analysis for the AgroClimas project intervention with bush bean

farmers in Santander, Colombia is made using the partial budget analysis and economic

surplus methodology. A total of four scenarios are compared to analyze the potential

impact of different levels of adoption of the agro-climatic information and agricultural

practices package presented in the AgroClimas project. Results show that the adoption of

the complete package is highly profitable and even intermediate adoption levels could

have a positive potential economic impact in bush bean farmers. See deliverable D368.

S511 - Midline surveys at

household, village and

organizational levels in Ghana

CSV

Complete Other This is a pilot test of conducting a midline survey using the same tools/instruments as

used in the baseline. It was done to assess whether doing it in more sites would be

useful. The survey results will be used to examine what kinds of changes are happening

in the CSV site (beyond CCAFS' activities) to look at development trends, natural resource

trends, etc. that are being experienced by the communities and households. The report

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S621 - Integrated aquaculture

systems as a climate smart

approach: Adoption study

Complete Adoption study Although climate-smart aquaculture (CSAq) brings higher economic and environmental

benefits to adopters, broader adoption and scaling of CSAq practices faced several

challenges and required supportive measures. To understand the factors affecting the

adoption of CSAq, an econometric model was applied with data collected from 200

aquaculture farms. The results indicated that 69.4% of farmers’ CSAq adoption behavior

can be explained by economic efficiency (30.2%); higher price of products (16.0%);

access to technical information (14.9%); pond environmental improvement; the

household's labor availability; and food security. Improving economic efficiency and

raising awareness about CSAq systems among farmers are important measures to be

implemented (https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100122).

S801 – EpIA study on National

Food Security Act supports CSA

in India by stimulating the

sourcing of small millets

Complete EPIA This study (https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100156) concluded that “there is no doubt that

the research-based evidence on the nutritional, environmental, and economic benefits of

millet production” by Bioversity and partners “greatly focused the power and

persuasiveness of (the) advocacy efforts” leading up to the National Food Security Act.

This has the potential for massive increase in production and consumption of small

grains, which are both climate-smart and nutritious. However, the implementation of the

Act is still at an early stage and many issues around procurement by states will need to

be solved if a shift in production and consumption is to be facilitated

S2590 - Uptake and impact of

CSA on food security, incomes

and assets in East Africa

Complete EPIA The study (https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99267) uses quasi-experimental approaches to

analyze uptake and impact of CSA—improved multiple stress-tolerant crop varieties,

improved and better adapted livestock breeds and integrated soil and water

conservation measures, coupled with improved agronomic and livestock management

practices—on livelihood outcomes (food and nutrition security, incomes and asset

accumulation), all of which are indicators of resilience. In addition, the paper examines

drivers of CSA adoption.

S2622 - Is a distributed

research program an effective

model for implementing R4D?

Complete Program evaluation The report (https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99499) authors interviewed 14 researchers

(members of or associated with FP1) to investigate how researchers operate in a globally

distributed research program. The report is entitled "Collaboration in a distributed

research program: Islands of intensity in a sea of minimal interaction".






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S2639 – CCAFS-informed tools

and approaches mainstreamed

in Indian national program for

targeting and scaling climate

smart multi-commodity

smallholder farming systems

Complete Quali Outcome Study Science-based approaches and tools for farm level exploration of farm-type specific

productive, economical and environmentally sound alternative multi-commodity farming

systems were developed and validated through multi-location pilots across the All India

Network of Integrated Farming Systems Research of Indian Institute of Farming Systems

Research (ICAR) using evidence base generated by CCAFS and Wheat Agri-Food Systems

by CIMMYT, ICAR, and WUR. This has not only led to better targeting the farming

systems for smallholders but also to the scientific evidence, learning and enhanced

capacity of researchers helping in achieving the Government of India's mission of

doubling farmers income in a sustainable way.

S2783 - Assessment of the use

of PICSA approach by farmers

to manage climate risk in Mali

and Senegal

Complete Program evaluation PICSA makes use of historical climate records, participatory decision-making tools and

forecasts to help farmers identify and better plan livelihood options. This approach was

implemented in 2016 in two sites in Senegal and Mali, with 57 and 47 farmers,

respectively. At the end of the growing season, these farmers were surveyed to explore

their perceptions on the use of the approach. In Senegal and Mali, 97% and 76% of the

respondents respectively found the approach ‘very useful’. The approach enabled

farmers to make strategic plans long before the season, based on their improved

knowledge of local climate features.

S2784 - Strengthening climate

services for the food security

sector

Complete Program evaluation This article references an earlier study that was commissioned by CCAFS and World Food

Programme to conduct an independent assessment of how effective the various climate

service activities were at meeting the needs of farming and pastoralist communities. This

was complemented by the overarching M&E of the program led by the Center for

International Climate and Environmental Research, and Chr. Michelsen Institute.

S2785 - Implementación de

Servicios Integrados

Participativos de Clima para la

Agricultura (PICSA) en el TESAC

– Cauca, Colombia

Complete Other This document presents the implementation of the "Detailed guide on the use of PICSA

with farmers", articulated to the processes in the Cauca CSV. A synthesis of the activities,

results, and lessons learned is creating the route for the generation of integrated

participatory climate services in the adaptation process, in the rural context of Colombia.

PICSA was implemented in 2017 with 30 families in the Danube and Mercedes lanes in

the department of Cauca.


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S2787 - CGIAR Review 2018:

Case study on Climate Change,

Agriculture and Food Security

Complete Program evaluation This review by the EU and IFAD was very positive, with recommendations for greater

focus on social inclusion and M&E. Management has drafted a response, but this is still

to be discussed by the CCAFS governance body. The evaluation and its response can be

accessed at this link: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100835.



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Table 10: Update on Actions Taken in Response to Relevant Evaluations

Name of the

evaluation Recommendation

number (from

evaluation)

Text of

recommendation

(can be

shortened)

Status of response

to this

recommendation

Concrete actions

taken for this

recommendation

By whom (per

action) When (per

action) Comments (including

expenditure, where relevant –

relate this back to predicted

budgetary implications in the

management response to the

evaluation )

Table 10 is not applicable. Please see S2787 - CGIAR Review 2018: Case study on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Table 9 above.


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Table 11: Examples of W1/2 Use in this reporting period (2018)

Please give specific examples, one per row (including through set aside strategic research funds or partner funds) Select broad area of use of W1/2

from the categories below - (drop

down) Select only one category

Delivering climate-informed advisories through digital means with ESOKO, which has now delivered on c. 300,000 farmers

receiving advisories Research

EpIA: National Food Security Act supports CSA in India by stimulating the sourcing of small millets - potentially reaching 31 million

farmers (based on previous CCAFS/Bioversity research supported by W1/W2) Other MELIA

Projects on LTACs and climate-informed decision-making for farmers, now reaching 500,000 farmers (just under 45% women) in

Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua Research

Projects on Kenya’s dairy sector (including feeding studies, institutional analyses, design of a MRV system, and participatory

action), now informing a US$ 223 million NAMA, regarded by external evaluators as "a pioneer example of how climate change

mitigation and adaptation can support agricultural development objectives"

Research

CCAFS/CIMMYT research in Nepal in the CSV, including testing and evaluating CSA technologies, simulation modelling and socio-

economic surveys; now informing "Chief Minister's Climate Smart Agriculture Village Model Program" in two Nepal states. Research

Research with the investment community in the coffee/cocoa sectors, now informing loans totalling US$ 146 million. Research

CS-MAP in the Mekong River Delta, which resulted in adjustments in planting date influencing more than 600,000 ha (avoiding

about 200,000 ha of damage suffered in the 2016 El Niño). Research

Support to the design and delivery of PICSA, which is now being rolled out in 17 countries (e.g. Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania,

Uganda) Delivery


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Table 12: CRP Financial Report

Planned Budget 2018* Actual expenditure* Difference* Comments

W1/W2 W3/

Bilateral

Total W1/W2 W3/

Bilateral

Total W1/W2 W3/

Bilateral

Total

FP1 - Priorities

and Policies

for CSA

US$

4,315,005

US$

5,226,595

US$

9,541,600

US$

3,687,045

US$

7,220,659

US$

10,907,704

US$

627,960

US$ -

1,994,064

US$ -

1,366,104

Top 5 Centers of the largest

executions of W1/W2 funds

are ILRI, IFPRI, ICRISAT, IRRI

and CIAT. The first 5 Centers

with the largest W3/Bilateral

contributions were CIAT,

IITA, IFPRI, ICRISAT and

BIOVERSITY.

FP2 - Climate-

Smart

Technologies

and Practices

US$

6,036,553

US$

13,911,976

US$

19,948,529

US$

5,104,800

US$

13,415,209

US$

18,520,009

US$

931,753

US$

496,767

US$

1,428,520

Top 5 Centers with the

largest executions of W1/W2

funds under FP2 are CIAT,

ICRAF, CIMMYT, IRRI and

ILRI. The first 5 Centers with

the largest W3/Bilateral


CIMMYT, IITA, BIOVERSITY

and ICRAF.

FP3 - Low

emissions

development

US$

5,115,733

US$

5,931,609

US$

11,047,342

US$

4,461,876

US$

7,917,473

US$

12,379,349

US$

653,857

US$ -

1,985,864

US$ -

1,332,007



funds under FP3 are

CIMMYT, ILRI, IRRI, ICRAF

and CIAT. The first 5 Centers

with the largest W3/Bilateral

contributions were CIMMYT,

IITA, ILRI, IRRI and ICARDA.


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FP4 - Climate

services and

safety nets

US$

4,178,088

US$

8,792,498

US$

12,970,586

US$

3,181,721

US$

4,536,854

US$

7,718,575

US$

996,367

US$

4,255,644

US$

5,252,011



funds under FP4 are ICRISAT,

CIMMYT, ILRI, IWMI and IRRI.

The first 5 Centers with the

largest W3/Bilateral


ICRISAT, CIMMYT, IWMI and

CIP.

Strategic

Competitive

Research

Grant

US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ US$ N/A

CRP

Management

& Support

Cost

US$

2,037,511

US$

184,650

US$

2,222,161

US$

1,887,774

US$ US$

1,887,774

US$

149,737

US$

184,650

US$

334,387

N/A

CRP Total US$

21,682,890

US$

34,047,328

US$

55,730,218

US$

18,323,216

US$

33,090,195

US$

51,413,411

US$

3,359,674

US$

957,133

US$

4,316,807


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