Nutrition Security

•  “food and nutrition security” better

Funding Climate-Smart Agriculture articulates the links, as opposed to
“food security and nutrition” (FAO)
as a determinant of
•  Background in Food and Nutrition
Nutrition Security Surveillance with PAHO

Steve Maximay
Science-Based Initiatives

Early encounters with Climate Change

Climate-Smart Agriculture

•  CPACC 1998
•  Team member “Risk management guidelines”
•  1st Agriculture & Water Risk Management
Training Seminar 2002
•  Cost effectiveness of mitigation in agriculture
•  3 years of CSA workshops at CWA
•  COP17 Durban South Africa
•  Caribbean-wide CSA consultancies
•  Listing as Senior Expert EU-ACP CTA
•  Attracting significant funding
•  Potential for “Greenwashing”
•  Will deserving producers (large and small)
be able to access Climate finance?
•  Linked to Nationally Determined
Contributions

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This certification and auditing scheme can be
used to compare projects, processes and products
to justify the applicability and quantum of
Climate Change Funding (grant and/or loan).
C-SAC
How does C-SAC work
•  incorporates major categories of compliance
•  provides a replicable analysis matrix
•  uses scalar approaches to convert qualitative
assessments into a numeric compliance
scale.
•  Failure to attain a score above 40 implies
non-compliance.
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 Resource Conservation
Land Use Plant density/
The categories of compliance examined are intensive rearing/
building design
Water Management/
Resource conservation; efficiency/reuse
Energy use;
Nutrients Manure/fertilizer/
Safety;
Biodiversity support; and feed/feedstock
Greenhouse gas reduction Labour Productivity,
tooling, ergonomics

Energy Use Safety

Power Production/ Production Equipment use,
harvesting/drying
operations infrastructure
equipment design
Lighting Production area/
Harvesting Tools, equipment,
perimeter machinery
Input manufacture Fossil fuel
Storage Container type,
component, input
building design
life cycle
Utilization NAHFS standard
Transportation On/off farm, source
of ex-farm inputs

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 Biodiversity Support Greenhouse gas reduction
Land clearing Zoning applicability,
extent of denudation, Enteric Ruminant management
habitat displacement
fermentation
Off-site agrochemical Runoff/effluent impact
impact Soil management Soil water anaerobic
conditions
Limit the introduction of Bio-control protocols,
invasive species Fossil fuel use Reduction through use
of renewable energy
Ecosystem services Micro-climate
impact modification, Manure/waste Gasification and
percolation/runoff, management storage/usage, soil
riverine impact sequestration

Funding Climate-Smart
Agriculture

•  The Region has had several underfunded or

inappropriately funded programmes e.g.
BAM

•  Multilateral and bilateral funds have limits

•  GCF in replenishment phase

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 Appropriate screening of CSA
projects is necessary if the
mistakes of the past are to
avoided…….. and the attainable
levels of Nutrition Security
achieved

Thank You