Organisations as leaders in a

changing world

Hanna Wetterstrand

Cemus – Climate change leadership

April 8th, 2014

Ett ”nytt” sätt att se på världen…

”Where sustainability

aims to put the world

back into balance,

resilience looks for ways

to manage in an

imbalanced world.”

”A new dialogue is emerging

around resilience: how to help

vulnerable people,

organizations and systems

persist, perhaps even thrive,

amid unforeseeable

disruptions.”

”We’ll also need to use

nature itself as a form of

’soft’ infrastructure… e.g.

the restoration of

wetlands that serve as a

vital buffer against

hurricanes.”

“The ability of an individual, a community, a country or a region to anticipate risks, respond and cope with shocks and stresses, while addressing the underlying root causes of risks, to then recover and continue to develop”.

“Bouncing Back Better – People’s resilience in relation to recurrent natural hazards. Sida’sapproach to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability.

1. Persistence (Motståndskraft: att kunna buffra förändringar och motstå chocker)

2. Adaptability (Anpassningsförmåga:kapaciteten hos människor i social-ekologiska system att anpassa sig till förändring)

3. Transformability (Transformationsförmåga:att kunna välja helt nya vägar, att styra mot önskade framtider)

Tre aspekter av resiliens

The global outlook:

Food• Today: nearly a billion hungry

despite enough food for all

• In 40 years: 9 billions

demands 60% more food, with

increasing challenges:

climate change and resource

scarcity

• Next 10 years: Higher food

prices, diminishing production

So what is needed?

• Business as usual is not

an option

• Small scale farmers play

a key role

• Change consumption

patterns

• Change current

production patterns

– NOTHING LESS THAN A

TRANSFORMATION

Future agriculture

• More sustainable

agriculture based on

agro-ecological practices,

resilient to climate

change

• Higher biodiversity

• Gender equality

• Produce more with less

inputs

• More democratic

• twin objectives:

– feeding humanity and

– safeguarding a stable planet

• will require a planetary food revolution based on a new paradigm for

agriculture development.

• We must now shift from our current paradigm of productivity enhancement while reducing environmental impacts, to a paradigm where sustainability constitutes the entry point for all agricultural development.

• In this new paradigm, sustainable governance and management of ecosystems, natural resources and Earth system processes at large, provides the basis for practical solutions towards an intensification of agriculture.

• A rapid world transformation to global sustainability is increasingly acknowledged.

• Agriculture can and must be a major part of the solution in this world transformation.

• Core elements of a new paradigm are well established, including strategies to build social-ecological resilience, ecosystem-based landscape planning and farm practices, system based governance approaches connecting sectors and scales, practices of multiple benefits and resource reuse, connecting diverse knowledge systems, gender and equity.

• We must develop agricultural systems that integrate water, land and ecosystems in ways that build resilient, productive and sustainable wellbeing for human societies.

General statistics

• 85 % of the world´s farmers

are small holders

• Less than 2 ha

• Poor quality of land

• Produce a majority of the

food

Women

• Produce 80 % of the

food in Africa

• Own only a few

percentage of the land

Challenges for small scale farmers

• Infrastructure and non functioning markets

• Non favourable policies

• Worse biologicalpreconditions

• Generally poor and hungry

This is why the work of Vi Agroforestry is needed

How it all started…

• 1983 skrev Tidningen Vi:s

chefredaktör Sten Lundgren en

artikel om jorderosion

• Startskottet för Vi-skogen

• Då: Trädplantering för att

stoppa ökenspridning

Vi Agroforestryin Eastern Africa

• 4 countries

• Extension services

• 200 000 small scalefarming households < 2 ha

• 1 200 000 people

Local outlook:Householdconstraints

• Weak health and education systems

• Unsustainablefarming techniques

• Loss of forest cover

• Climate change

• Weak institutions

• No savings

Tree planting and soil erosion

Tree planting and soil erosion

Agroforestry and Food security

Tree planting and soil erosion

Agroforestry and food security

Poverty reduction

Tree planting and soil erosion

Agroforestry and food security

Poverty reduction

Organizational

Development

Tree planting and soil erosion

Agroforestry and food security

Poverty reduction

Organizational development

Marketing & Enterprise development

Financial services

Tree planting and soil erosion

Agroforestry and food security

Poverty reduction

Organizational development

Marketing and Enterprise Development, Financial services

Climate change:

Adaptation &

Carbon sequestration

Tree planting and soil erosion

Agroforestry and food security

Poverty reduction

Organizational development

Marketing and Enterprise Development, Financial services

Climate change: Adaptation & Carbon sequestration

1983 2011

Significant changes on various levels

- a sign of resilient leadership

• Diversifying

Sector:From tree planting – Agroforestry – 5 working areas

• Shift in mind-set and theory of changeHow to implement:From own implementation – to support localorganisations in their own mandatePractical leadershipFrom one authoritarian Swedish leader – several maleSwedish leaders – a mix of local and Swedish leadersboth male and female

Working areas• Agroforestry

• Gender equality

• Organisational development

• Farming as a business

• Financial services

Adaptation to climate change

Agroforestry – climate change adaptation and production

increase

”Ett jordbrukssystem där fleråriga trädväxter integreras med grödor och/eller djurskötsel inom ett markområde”

Ecological and economic benefits. Provides the families withthe five F:s: Food, Fuel, Fodder, Finance and Fertility

A triple win: 1) increased crop yields and farm productivity 2) soil carbon sequestration 3) increased smallholders resilience to climate

change – climate change adaptation.

Vi Agroforestry unique advocate of AF

Agroforestry

Organisationaland business development

• Organising farmers

•Market based

production

• Voice and

representation

• ARE REAL LEADERS!

Supporting farmers´organisations

Farmers

Farmer

groups

Networks

of farmer

groups

National

farmers

organisations

Global

collaboration

Savings and loans

• Village savings and loans

associations

• Builds on own savings only

• Small investments

• Handling cash flows

• Insurance

• Gender equality

1000 trees -the way to a betterlife

• Used to walk 4 km – now ownfire wood

• Selling woodmakes good profit

•More cows givemilk and income

• Egg production

Some results

> During 2012 7 million treesplanted

> 6000 groups of farmers were supported in 2010

> During 2010 714 savingsand loans groups saved 5 million SEK

Successfactors

• Relatively secure land tenurerights

• Relatively stable political and economic situation

• Strongly committed farmers organise themselves – buildssustainability and social capital

• The combination of workingareas

• Persistent long term support

• Agroforestry amazing potential and gives quick results

Time to think

TIME TO THINK

Purpose:

To explore and contribute to understanding and

clarify areas of convergence and divergence

regarding ways to scale up the mobilization of

financial resources, including innovative financial

mechanisms, to achieve the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity

Targets.

Participants:

Nominations via the CBD Secretariat from Parties

and Non-parties, 80 representatives from

governments, development agencies, UN

organizations, non-governmental organizations,

social movements, farmer organizations, local

communities and indigenous peoples organizations,

scientists and the private sector.

Scaling up Biodiversity Finance

Success factors of the dialogue

• Diversity of participants

• Friendly, open, honest atmosphere and spirit based in

genuine concern for biodiversity, despite broad range of

perspectives and ideology.

• Diversity of issues and balance between perspectives

• Open-mindedness and Chatham House principles/rules

• Careful and substantial preparations

• Well-designed seminar ‘road map’ and overall ‘issue and

perspectives’ mapping.

• The excellent facilitation

• A fair amount of group work

• Fieldtrip

What is according to you

required by the leaders of the

future?

My definition of a leader

• Inspirer

• Knowing how to get others on board

• Stear the ship, but trusting other people,

hearing, seeing and acknowledging others for

their contribution and strengths

What type of leadership that is

required?

• To create a resilient planet we need resilientpeople – and resilient people need resilientleadership

• Able to deal with change and continue todevelop.

• Capacity to adapt, continuous learning, flexible, innovative, low prestige

• Creator of learning spaces, making othersgrow

Thanks!

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