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International Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture

Introduction To address the need to generate knowledge build capacities and strengthen international coordination and collaboration on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), the project established an international partnership, which promoted the climate-smart approach for food security and contributed to making the agrifood sector more resilient to the impact of climate change.
Start date 01/04/2014
End date 31/12/2024
Status Closed
Recipient / Target Areas Botswana, Ecuador, Global
Project Code GCP/GLO/534/ITA
Objective / Goal
  1. Supporting the creation and enlargement of a global alliance to enhance knowledge, provide policy support, increase investments and financing opportunities,
  2. Mobilizing funds and
  3. Generating assessments, tools and methodologies to allow national and local stakeholders to identify and adopt the appropriate farming and breeding systems, practices and technologies that address food security and climate change. 
Partners Government of Italy 
Beneficiaries Government institutions and national entities involved in agricultural and rural policy and investment development and, indirectly, hungry and malnourished people in target areas, focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable, women, infants and young children. 
Impact

The expected impact of the project was the creation of efficient sustainable production systems,  that are adapted to changes in climate and resilient to future environmental and economic shocks. In this way, the project was expected to contribute to reducing hunger and extreme poverty, enhancing food security and increasing environmental sustainability.

Support was provided for the establishment and organization of the GACSA facilitation unit, hosted by FAO, and the activities of the three action groups within GACSA (on knowledge, enabling environment and investment groups). In Botswana, the project integrated traditional practices and CSA into crop and livestock production systems and strengthened national institutional and technical capacities to adopt a CSA approach for fostering sustainable development of the local agricultural sector.

In Ecuador, the project mainstreamed the climate-smart approach in the cocoa value chain under the chakra system in Napo Province. A range of knowledge products, as well as practice and policy briefs, case studies, reviews, compendia and extension tools, have been developed. 
Contact

Kadyrzhanova, Inkar (Senior Natural resources Officer) [email protected] 

Maltsoglou, Irini (Natural resources Officer) [email protected] 

Pagliaroli, Simone (Donor Liaison aAnd Resource Mobilization Officer) [email protected] 

Matteoli, Federica (Project Coordinator), [email protected] 

Enriquez, Geovanny (National Project Coordinator) [email protected] 
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