Revision as of 16:49, 14 March 2017

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
Goals
Comments on indicators and goals
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

Participants

Participants

Number

Names

Members

0

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

0

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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 |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
 |Type of initiative=Political dialogue
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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:
-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;
+Improve farmers’ agricultural productivity and incomes in a sustainable way;
-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;
+Build farmers’ resilience to extreme weather and changing climate;
-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.
+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.
 |Participants=102 (see below)
 |Non-profit organisations=32