Revision as of 08:58, 23 October 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	2015
End year
Secretariat	Pan Pan Flagship Manager Climate-KIC AG Limmatstrasse 264, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland
Organisational structure
Geographical coverage	Western Europe, Eastern Europe
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	2030 Impact Goal - Increase, by an order of magnitude, the application of innovative CSA solutions in Europe and beyond. 2022 Outcomes Goals: 1.Reconnect diverse actors across the whole agricultural value chain by creating a multi-stakeholder platform, growing local ecosystems and activating behavioural change. 2. Catalyze the application and adoption of CSA innovations via identification, assessment, validation and scaling of CSA solutions. 3. Accelerate and de-risk CSA investments by blending climate and agriculture finance, enhancing data analytics and tools, and developing innovative public-private financing schemes and insurance mechanisms.
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	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

Last update: 10 March 2022 13:23:30

Not only have national states as participators

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 |LPAA Theme Cities and subnational governments=No
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 |LPAA Theme Energy efficiency=No
 |LPAA Theme Renewable energy=No
-|LPAA Theme Supply chain emission reductions=No
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-|LPAA Theme Adaptation=No
+|LPAA Theme Adaptation=Yes
 |LPAA Theme Other=No
-|LPAA Theme Resilience=No
+|LPAA Theme Resilience=Yes
-|LPAA Theme Innovation=No
+|LPAA Theme Innovation=Yes
 |LPAA Theme Energy Access and Efficiency=No
-|LPAA Theme Private Finance=No
+|LPAA Theme Private Finance=Yes
 |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.