The challenge

1. Adaptive Capacity for Resilience and Equity in Smallholder Agricultureprepared by Karl Deering and Stefan Mielke

2. The challenge “Feeding and nourishing a growing population in the face of climate change and other threats will be one of the defining challenges of the 21st century.” CI Discussion Paper “Climate Change, Smallholder Agriculture and Food Security” May 2013

3. Our world and its food and nutrition security • Causes of hunger and malnutrition are many; but increases in output are required (demographic/dietary change) • Increased production required without bringing new land into agriculture; with climate change, land-use conversion to agriculture is a major source of emissions and loss of biodiversity • Increasing stability of agricultural production systems requires much greater attention to building ecosystem services to increase resilience • To increase yields sustainably, we must harness knowledge from all current systems of agricultural production, including those based on conservation agriculture principles, local indigenous knowledge, etc. • Smallholder systems are a key part of the solution • Women underpin smallholder farming, but face many obstacles with insufficient support

4. Our world in a changing climate • BUT rising temperatures, reduced and erratic rainfall, increased flooding undermining farming, especially rain-fed agriculture

5. ACRES - Adaptive Capacity for Resilience and Equity in Smallholder Agriculture • ACRES established to address thematic pillar on food security, agriculture and climate change in the CI CC strategy. • Coordinated effort between the CI Poverty, Environment and Climate Change Network (PECCN) and the CI Food and Nutrition Security Steering Committee • ACRES is not a strategy but a workstreambased on existing corporate strategies • It has a ToR, budget, workplan, coordinator and structured communications, policy and fundraising support from the PECCN Secretariat • Cross-thematic links are key - water team also directly engaged

6. ACRES – background • 2012 – scoping exercise under CC strategy development process; political economy research and technical workshop • 2013 – discussion paper, positioning, programme design process, team established • 2014 – knowledge exchange workshop, work-planning and outreach • 2015 – the road to Paris – UNFCCC CoP

7. ACRES – planning (under development) 1 Building our Programme Portfolio and Resource Base • Engaging in Africa CSA Alliance, sharing donor intelligence, TA to COs on the development of proposals/concept notes; developing marketing and fundraising products (focus on gender/CCAFS r/ship) 2 Knowledge Management and Learning • Establish baseline of understanding on the issues/approaches and improve transfer of technical/programmatic/policy knowledge • Finalise Position Paper; develop/share learning and practice papers and agree learning agenda • More capacity building through practical, technical knowledge exchange events (e.g. Mozambique in Aug., Ethiopia in Sep.)

8. ACRES – planning cont. 3 Strategic Partnership • Building new and enhancing existing strategic partnerships, such as with the CARE-WWF Alliance and CCAFS 4 Policy and Advocacy Work • Build on Position Paper and develop new and cutting edge policy briefs for strategic purposes in CFS/UNFCCC • Production of robust, technical and programme-based evidence papers 5 Internal Communications • Ensure internal information transfer and awareness levels are established and maintained and that maximum coherence is sough with all initiatives across CC and F+NS strategies

9. To be sustainable and just, a food system must not only provide sufficient food, but also ensure food and nutrition security, promote equity and resilience, and make sustainable use of natural resources and environmental services

10. The emerging ACRES Approach CARE thus wants to promote smallholder agriculture that is • Sustainable • Productive • Equitable • Resilient SuPER smallholder agriculture