Overview presentation of the CCAFS Climate Smart Value Chains project on cocoa in Ghana

1. Mainstreaming Climate-Smart
Cocoa in Ghana

2. CGIAR
• A global partnership that unites organizations engaged
in research for a food secure future
• 15 research centers engaged in 15 CGIAR Research Programs

3. Overall objectives:
• Identify and develop pro-
poor adaptation and
mitigation practices,
technologies and policies
for agriculture and food
systems.
• Support the inclusion of
agricultural issues in
climate change policies,
and of climate issues in
agricultural policies, at all
levels.
The Climate Change, Agriculture and
Food Security (CCAFS) program

4. Project goals
Mainstreaming Climate-Smart Cocoa

5. Project goals (1)
What we know
• The impacts of climate change are not uniform across the
cocoa belt of West Africa.
• The differentiated nature of the risks means differentiated
strategies for managing adaptation.
• There is no one-size fits all strategy.
What we will do
• Use a transect approach to account for spatial and temporal
differences
• Select sites with high, medium and low climate change impacts
and develop appropriate strategies -- in collaboration with
others -- for each
• Assess adequate adaptation strategies with producers and
value chain actors (right varieties, diversification, shading, site
specific recommendations, new generation of farmers, smart
replanting strategies, etc.)

6. Project goals (2)
What we are doing (continued)
• Test ways to drive CSA adoption at scale with appropriate
support and incentives:
a) Integration of site specific CSA practices into extension services
tied to voluntary certification schemes; and, I
b) Integration of site specific CSA practices into producer
organization financing models.
• Engage local actors in the above process through multi-
stakeholder platforms (such as this meeting) in an on-going
way from now until (at least) 2019.
• We do not want to reinvent the wheel but rather support / build
on existing activities and hope you will find what we can
provide useful to achieving your business, research and policy
goals.

7. How we work
Mainstreaming Climate-Smart Cocoa

8. Proposed impact pathway

9. Proposed impact pathway
Engaging with private sector actors globally

10. Timeline
2015 20192016 2017

11. Final thougths
Mainstreaming Climate-Smart Cocoa

12. Final thoughts
The project expects to contribute to:
 Clear knowledge of what types of CSA practices to promote
where, for whom and with what return on investment
 Knowledge of under what conditions extension and PO
investments function as incentives for CSA uptake at scale
 Identification of additional public, private or public-private
incentives needed to promote widespread CSA adoption in the
cocoa sector
 Functional multi-stakeholder platforms that combines climate
science with industry knowledge to reduce risk faced by cocoa
in Ghana going forward.
• We seek to add value to what all of you are already
doing around climate change and look forward to
hearing what you think, how we might best collaborate
and what additional issues should be considered.

13. Thank you
We look forward to a good discussion