Revision as of 15:44, 12 March 2018

General

Name of initiative	Climate Smart Agriculture Booster (CSA Booster)
LPAA initiative	No
NAZCA Initiative	No
Website address	http://csabooster.climate-kic.org/
Related initiatives	Parent initiative: Climate-KIC Related: 4 : 1000 - Soils for Food Security and Climate Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture Partner
Starting year	2014
End year
Secretariat	Flagship Manager Pan Pan Climate-KIC AG Limmatstrasse 264 8005 Zurich Switzerland
Organisational structure
Geographical coverage	Western Europe, Africa, West Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific
Name of lead organisation	Climate-KIC
Type of lead organisation	Other intergovernmental organization, Network/Consortium/Partnership
Location/Nationality of lead organisation	Switzerland

Description

Description	CSA Booster is one of Climate-KIC's flagship innovation programmes – incubating and accelerating the commercialization, adoption and scaling of low-carbon (“climate-smart”) technologies in the EU’s €+400bn agriculture sector. Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest public-private climate innovation partnership; it funds and supports innovation and entrepreneurship activities for creating economically viable products and services addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Objectives	The purpose of the CSA Booster is to incubate and accelerate the commercialization, adoption and scaling of low-carbon (“climate-smart”) technologies in the EU’s €+400bn agriculture sector.
Activities	Capacity building - including open innovation platform (Agrisource.org), CSA solutions database, CSA MOOC, and regional hubs in Europe, (France, Italy, Netherlands, Nordic.) Project development, management and funding for agtech, agri-finance and insurance and innovation/technical assistance projects.
One or two success stories achieved	Upon request

Monitoring and Impacts

Function of initiative	Capacity building, Technical dialogue, Funding, Political dialogue
Activity of initiative	Awareness raising and outreach, Training and education, Knowledge dissemination and exchange, Knowledge production and innovation, Policy planning and recommendations, Fundraising
Indicators
Goals
Comments on indicators and goals
How will goals be achieved
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals
Progress towards the goals	Substantial - details upon request
How are you tracking progress of your initiative	Yes
Available reporting	Upon request

Participants

Participants

Number

Names

Members

50

Companies

0

Business organisations

0

Research and educational organisations

0

Non-governmental organisations

0

National states

12

Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Finland

Governmental actors

0

Regional / state / county actors

0

City / municipal actors

0

Intergovernmental organisations

3

GACSA (Global Alliance for CSA), FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), WBCSD

Financial Institutions

0

Faith based organisations

0

Other members

35

Wageningen University (NL), Wageningen Environmental Research, IBIMET (IT), South Pole Group (CH), INRA (FR), University of Reading (UK), GFZ (DE), PIK (DE), WBCSD (CH), BTU (DE), CMCC (IT), Cybeletech (FR), CPHU (DK), UPV (ES), AgriCircle (CH), Oasis Palm Tree (UK), Carbon Delta (CH), Agvesto (UK), CO2i (UK), Clarmondial (CH), Cirad (FR), Danone (FR), Cool Farm Alliance (UK), Wageningen University (NL), Wageningen Environmental Research, IBIMET (IT), INRA (FR), University of Reading (UK), GFZ (DE), PIK (DE), BTU (DE), CMCC (IT), CPHU (DK), UPV (ES), Cirad (FR)

Supporting partners

0

Climate-KIC, various co-founders

Number of members in the years

2018

70

Have only national states as participators

No

Theme

Transport	Agriculture	Forestry	Business	Financial institutions	Buildings	Industry	Waste	Cities and subnational governments	Short Term Pollutants	International maritime transport	Energy Supply	Fluorinated gases	Energy efficiency	Renewable energy	Supply chain emission reductions	Adaptation	Other	Resilience	Innovation	Energy Access and Efficiency	Private Finance
No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Last update: 10 March 2022 13:23:30

Not only have national states as participators

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 |Activities=Capacity building - including open innovation platform (Agrisource.org), CSA solutions database, CSA MOOC, and regional hubs in Europe, (France, Italy, Netherlands, Nordic.) Project development, management and funding for agtech, agri-finance and insurance and innovation/technical assistance projects.
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+|Participants national actors number=12
+|Participants national actors names=Netherlands,France,Italy,Germany,Denmark,Sweden,Norway,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Spain,Belgium,Finland
+|Participants intergovernmental organisations number=3
+|Participants intergovernmental organisations names=GACSA (Global Alliance for CSA), FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), WBCSD
+|Participants other members number=35
+|Participants other members names=Wageningen University (NL), Wageningen Environmental Research, IBIMET (IT), South Pole Group (CH), INRA (FR), University of Reading (UK), GFZ (DE), PIK (DE), WBCSD (CH), BTU (DE), CMCC (IT), Cybeletech (FR), CPHU (DK), UPV (ES), AgriCircle (CH), Oasis Palm Tree (UK), Carbon Delta (CH), Agvesto (UK), CO2i (UK), Clarmondial (CH), Cirad (FR), Danone (FR), Cool Farm Alliance (UK), Wageningen University (NL), Wageningen Environmental Research, IBIMET (IT), INRA (FR), University of Reading (UK), GFZ (DE), PIK (DE), BTU (DE), CMCC (IT), CPHU (DK), UPV (ES), Cirad (FR)
+|Participants supporting partners names=Climate-KIC, various co-founders
+|Number of members={{Number of members
+|Number of members year=2018
+|Number of members value=50
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 |Have only national states as participators=No
 |Short and long-time objectives=2030 Impact Goal - Increase, by an order of magnitude, the application of innovative CSA solutions in Europe and beyond.
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 |Participants=Wageningen University (NL), Wageningen Environmental Research, IBIMET (IT), South Pole Group (CH), INRA (FR), University of Reading (UK), GFZ (DE), PIK (DE), WBCSD (CH), BTU (DE), CMCC (IT), Cybeletech (FR), CPHU (DK), UPV (ES), AgriCircle (CH), Oasis Palm Tree (UK), Carbon Delta (CH), Agvesto (UK), CO2i (UK), Clarmondial (CH), Cirad (FR), Danone (FR), Cool Farm Alliance (UK), GACSA, FAO, Unilever (NL), FrieslandCampina (NL), Barry Callebaut (CH), FoodNexus, Food KIC
-|Participants supporting partners names=Climate-KIC, various co-founders
-|Participants other members number=35
-|Participants other members names=Wageningen University (NL), Wageningen Environmental Research, IBIMET (IT), South Pole Group (CH), INRA (FR), University of Reading (UK), GFZ (DE), PIK (DE), WBCSD (CH), BTU (DE), CMCC (IT), Cybeletech (FR), CPHU (DK), UPV (ES), AgriCircle (CH), Oasis Palm Tree (UK), Carbon Delta (CH), Agvesto (UK), CO2i (UK), Clarmondial (CH), Cirad (FR), Danone (FR), Cool Farm Alliance (UK), Wageningen University (NL), Wageningen Environmental Research, IBIMET (IT), INRA (FR), University of Reading (UK), GFZ (DE), PIK (DE), BTU (DE), CMCC (IT), CPHU (DK), UPV (ES), Cirad (FR)
-|Participants intergovernmental organisations number=3
-|Participants intergovernmental organisations names=GACSA (Global Alliance for CSA), FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), WBCSD
-|Participants national actors number=12
-|Participants national actors names=Netherlands,France,Italy,Germany,Denmark,Sweden,Norway,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Spain,Belgium,Finland
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