Latest revision as of 12:03, 1 April 2022

General

Name of initiative	Global Alliance For Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA)
LPAA initiative	No
NAZCA Initiative	No
Website address	http://www.fao.org/gacsa/en/
Related initiatives	Related: Climate Smart Agriculture Booster (CSA Booster)
Starting year	2014
End year
Secretariat	GACSA Facilitation Unit hosted by FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy, GACSA-Facilitation-Unit@fao.org
Organisational structure	The SC serves as a representative body of Alliance members and the decision authority for approving an annual Program of Work and a budget for the Facilitation Unit. Among other responsibilities the SC oversees the implementation of the programme of work and main activities of the Alliance, and provides guidance to the Facilitation Unit. For the first inception year (2015) of the alliance, all GACSA members may volunteer to be members of the GACSA Steering Committee.
Geographical coverage	Global, North America, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and The Caribbean, Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe
Name of lead organisation	Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
Type of lead organisation	International organisation
Location/Nationality of lead organisation	Italy

Description

Description	GACSA is an inclusive, voluntary and action-oriented multi-stakeholder platform on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Objectives	GACSAs vision is to improve food security, nutrition and resilience in the face of climate change. GACSA aims to catalyse and help create transformational partnerships to encourage actions that reflect an integrated approach to the three pillars of CSA. GACSA works towards three aspirational outcomes to: Improve farmers’ agricultural productivity and incomes in a sustainable way; Build farmers’ resilience to extreme weather and changing climate; Reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, when possible.
Activities	Within the Alliance there are three initial action groups on: Knowledge: Increasing and promoting knowledge, research, and development into technologies, practices, and policy approaches for CSA. Investment: Improving the effectiveness of public and private investments that support the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture. Enabling environments: Integrating climate-smart agriculture into policy, strategies and planning at regional, national, and local levels and across landscapes. The objectives of the action groups is to provide the services and address knowledge gaps required by members and other entities to undertake their CSA up-scaling actions and interventions.
One or two success stories achieved

Monitoring and Impacts

Function of initiative

Technical dialogue, Capacity building, Political dialogue

Activity of initiative

Knowledge production and innovation, Training and education, Policy planning and recommendations, Awareness raising and outreach, Knowledge dissemination and exchange

Indicators

Knowledge production and innovation — Knowledge production or publication produced

Year	2018
Value (#)	12

Goals

Comments on indicators and goals

GACSA's Knowledge Action Group has developed 12 practice and policy briefs for the inception year of the alliance. These practice briefs are just one of many product types in the group's impressive pipeline of scholarship. These briefs are designed to focus on technical documents on specific Climate-Smart Agricultural practices. At: http://www.fao.org/gacsa/en/

How will goals be achieved

Have you changed or strenghtened your goals

Progress towards the goals

How are you tracking progress of your initiative

Available reporting

Compendium on Climate-Smart Irrigation: Concepts, evidence and options for a climate-smart approach to improving the performance of irrigated cropping systems on:

www.fao.org/3/CA1726EN/ca1726en.pdf

Participants

Participants

Number

Names

Members

534

Companies

0

Business organisations

0

Research and educational organisations

0

Non-governmental organisations

0

National states

0

Governmental actors

0

Regional / state / county actors

0

City / municipal actors

0

Intergovernmental organisations

0

Financial Institutions

0

Faith based organisations

0

Other members

534

Supporting partners

0

Number of members in the years

2016

144

2018

207

2019

286

2020

465

2021

534

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: 1 April 2022 11:03:34

Not only have national states as participators

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 |Starting year=2014
 |Secretariat=GACSA Facilitation Unit hosted by FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome,  Italy, GACSA-Facilitation-Unit@fao.org
 |Organisational structure=The SC serves as a representative body of Alliance members and the decision authority for approving an annual Program of Work and a budget for the Facilitation Unit.  Among other responsibilities the SC oversees the implementation of the programme of work and main activities of the Alliance, and provides guidance to the Facilitation Unit. For the first inception year (2015) of the alliance, all GACSA members may volunteer to be members of the GACSA Steering Committee.
-Have the following sub-ICI: "Mainstreaming Youth and Persons Living With Disabilities in Climate Smart Agriculture"
+|Geographical coverage=Global,North America,Asia and the Pacific,Latin America and The Caribbean,Africa,Western Europe,Eastern Europe
-|Geographical coverage=Global,North America,Asia and the Pacific,Latin America and The Caribbean,Africa,Western Europe,Eastern Europe,
+|Name of lead organisation=Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
-|Type of initiative=Political dialogue,
-|Secondary functions=Knowledge dissemination and exchange / Information and Networking (e.g. output databases / workshops / conference),Campaigning and awareness raising (e.g. output advocacy or awareness raising publication),Policy planning / Institutional policy and economic framework (e.g. output policy documents / workshops),
-|Name of lead organisation=FAO
 |Type of lead organisation=International organisation
 |Location/Nationality of lead organisation=Italy
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 |LPAA Theme Energy Access and Efficiency=No
 |LPAA Theme Private Finance=No
-|Description=A voluntary, farmer-led, multi-stakeholder, action-oriented coalition committed to the incorporation of climate-smart approaches within food and agriculture systems.
+|Description=GACSA is an inclusive, voluntary and action-oriented multi-stakeholder platform on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)
-|Goals=i. Sustainable and equitable increases in agricultural productivity and incomes;
+|Goals=GACSAs vision is to improve food security, nutrition and resilience in the face of climate change. GACSA aims to catalyse and help create transformational partnerships to encourage actions that reflect an integrated approach to the three pillars of CSA.
-ii. Greater resilience of food systems and farming livelihoods; and
-iii. Reduction and/or removal of greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture (including the relationship between agriculture and ecosystems), where possible.
+GACSA works towards three aspirational outcomes to:
-|Activities=The work of the Global Alliance will focus on three initial action areas: knowledge, investment and enabling environment. Activities under these action areas include:
+Improve farmers’ agricultural productivity and incomes in a sustainable way;
-i. Voluntary adoption of national strategies for the practice of climate-smart agriculture, within the context of national strategies for agriculture, food security and nutrition;
+Build farmers’ resilience to extreme weather and changing climate;
-ii. Development of systems that encourage all people to adopt climate-smart agriculture through accessing (a) expertise from other countries, (b) lessons from pilot studies and (c) resources needed to establish the necessary operating principles, extension services and farmer support schemes;
+Reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, when possible.
-iii. The engagement of businesses, foundations, development agencies and intergovernmental organizations in support of this government-led agenda - in ways that bring benefits to the people whose livelihoods are most threatened by climate change.
+|Activities=Within the Alliance there are three initial action groups on:
-|Participants=102, see below.
+Knowledge: Increasing and promoting knowledge, research, and development into technologies, practices, and policy approaches for CSA.
-|Non-profit organisations=32
+Investment: Improving the effectiveness of public and private investments that support the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture.
-|Members=1. Canada 2. Costa Rica 3. France 4. Grenada 5. Ireland 6. Italy 7. Japan 8. Netherlands 9. Malawi 10. Mexico 11. Nigeria 12. Niger 13. Norway 14. Philippines 15. Republic of Cyprus 16. South Africa 17. Spain 18. Switzerland 19. Tanzania 20. United Kingdom 21. United States of America 22. Viet Nam 23. Aequator Groen & Ruimte 24. Africa Partnership on Climate Change Coalition 25. African Union Commission 26. Agriculture for Impact GACSA Series Document 3 (GACSA3) 2 27. The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) 28. The Alliance of Religions & Conservation (ARC) 29. Asia Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Development (AFA) 30. Association for Agricultural Research Asia Pacific (NAARAP) 31. Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID) 32. Canadian Fertilizer Institute (CFI) 33. Carbon Drawdown Solution 34. Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) 35. CGIAR Consortium (Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers) 36. Central Himalayen Environnent Association (CHEA) 37. Center for Development & Competitive Strategies Ltd 38. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) 39. Cool Farm Alliance 40. Common Market For Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) 41. CROPP Cooperative 42. Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) 43. Colorado State University 44. CSA Youth Network 45. Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) 46. Danone 47. Ecofys 48. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) 49. Evergreen Agriculture Partnership 50. EcoAgriculture 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 52. Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) 53. The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) 54. Fertilizers Europe 55. Ghana Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security Platform 56. Global Biotechnology Transfer Foundation GACSA Series Document 3 (GACSA3) 3 57. The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) 58. Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) 59. GLOBAL G.A.P. 60. Haifa Chemicals Ltd. 61. Humana People to People 62. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 63. International Agri-Food Network 64. International Coffee Organization 65. International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) 66. The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) 67. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 68. International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) 69. International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) 70. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 71. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) 72. Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) 73. Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) 74. Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education (INHERE) 75. Koppert Biological Systems BV 76. Mosaic Company 77. Institut national de la richerche agronomique (INRA) 78. National Council for Climate Change Sustainable Development and Public Leadership (NCCSD) 79. New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) 80. Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) 81. Rainforest Alliance 82. RTI International 83. SCS Global Services 84. Solutions from the Land 85. Spectrum 86. Sustainable food lab GACSA Series Document 3 (GACSA3) 4 87. Tropenbos International 88. Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) 89. UK-China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (SAIN) 90. University of Missouri, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology 91. University of California, Davis, USA 92. The Nature Conservancy 93. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) 94. The Virtual Fertilizer Research Center (VFRC) 95. Wageningen University and Research Center, the Netherlands 96. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) 97. World Bank 98. World Farmers Organization (WFO) 99. World Food Programme (WFP) 100.World Resources Institute (WRI) 101.Yara International 102.Youth Millennium Development Ambassadors Initiative, Sierra Leon 103.501 Carbon
+Enabling environments: Integrating climate-smart agriculture into policy, strategies and planning at regional, national, and local levels and across landscapes.
-|Governmental bodies/agencies=14
-|Monitoring and Reporting=Unclear
+The objectives of the action groups is to provide the services and address knowledge gaps required by members and other entities to undertake their CSA up-scaling actions and interventions.
-|Commitment=Yes
+|Participants other members number=534
-|Quantified=No
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+|Available reporting=Compendium on Climate-Smart Irrigation: Concepts, evidence and options for a climate-smart approach to improving the performance of irrigated cropping systems on:
+www.fao.org/3/CA1726EN/ca1726en.pdf
+|Related initiatives=
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