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The e-learning tool 'Planning for Community Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change' supports training on community-based climate change adaptation in agriculture. The tool links research-based knowledge on climate change impacts with examples and experiences on CBA drawn from FAO field projects and a range of country-specific case studies. The intended outcoume of the tool is to assist all actors, who face the challenge of initiating and facilitating adaptation processes at community level.
This submission is made with a view to making available, to Parties, work undertaken in other intergovernmental processes. FAO and IFAD would like to draw attention to the Declaration adopted by the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy (HLC). Also covered in this submission are related issues concerning financing of climate change adaptation and mitigation in the agriculture and forestry sectors that were highlighted in the context of the High-Level Conference, attended by a large number of Heads of State and Government. These issues are largely drawn from the HLC background document Financial Mechanisms for Adaptation to and Mitigation of Climate Change in the Food and Agriculture sectors (http://www.fao.org/tempref/docrep/fao/meeting/013/k2396e.pdfhyperlink), jointly prepared by FAO and IFAD. At the heart of these issues is the message that agriculture and forestry – the land use sectors – have significant potential for climate change mitigation, but to realize this potential, financing/incentive mechanisms need to target better these sectors and reach small-scale land users.
The major natural sinks of carbon dioxide are oceans, soils and living and dead biomass, mainly plants – including forests. This short information note provides an overview of the potential of soil as a carbon sequestration option. Currently the Clean Development Mechanism, established under the Kyoto protocol, considers only afforestation and reforestation as acceptable sequestration activities. It is suggested that the post-2012 regime would benefit if soil carbon storage could be recognized as an eligible carbon sink in all land use systems, in particular agricultural soils. Indeed, the IPCC (2007) noted that soil carbon sequestration is the mechanism that holds the greatest global mitigation potential.
This report provides a summary of the working approach developed and tested to promote community-based adaptation within agriculture in Bangladesh. It presents lessons learned from the implementation process as well as the details of good practice options for drought risk management in the context of climate change.