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Multi-focal Area Programming in the GEF- Opportunities and Challenges
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Case of Sustainable Land Management Financing in the Context of Climate Change
Multi-focal Area Programming in the GEF- Opportunities and Challenges
Overview
• Recap of Land Degradation Focal Area as GEF window for financing SLM
• Cross-focal area linkages for SLM - specifically Climate Change Mitigation
• Emerging Priorities and Implications
Land Degradation Focal Area Mandate – Finance efforts to arrest and reverse current global trends in land degradation, specifically desertification and deforestation
Focus – Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in production landscapes
Impacts:•Flow of ecosystem services increased or maintained•Sustained crop, livestock, and forest production•Sustainable livelihoods (development benefit)
Multiple Benefits through SLMEcosystem Services in Production Systems
– Soil health improvement– Land and water conservation– Biodiversity conservation - above and below ground– Reduced GHG emissions and carbon sequestration
Development– Climate-resilient production systems – Options for household food security and income
Multi-focal Area Projects• LAND DEGRADATION: Flow of ecosystem services in
production systems; Integrated approaches to reduce pressure from competing uses
Deliver multiple environmental and social benefits, seeking synergy with –
• BIODIVERSITY: Integrated Landscape approaches and Sustainable use of biodiversity
• CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION: LULUCF component for reducing GHG emissions and carbon sequestration
• CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION (LDCF/SCCF): Adaptation and resilience in the agriculture, livestock, and food security sectors
SFM/REDD-plus Program
Funding derives from three GEF Focal Areas - Biodiversity, Climate Change and Land Degradation
Separate funding envelope created to provide incentive funding for interested countries
Goal: Achieve multiple environmental benefits from improved management of all types of forests
Typology of LDFA investmentsLD-stand alone Multifocal area SFM/REDD+
Focus: Agriculture and Rangeland Management
Focus: Integrated Landscape Management
Focus: Carbon benefits in forests Landscapes
China: Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Land Management in Western PRC
Ecuador: Promotion of Climate-Smart Livestock Management
Azerbaijan: Sustainable Land and Forest Management in the Greater Caucasus Landscape
Pakistan: Sustainable Land Management Program to Combat Desertification
Kazakhstan: Improving Sustainability of PA System in Desert Ecosystems
Kenya: Development of SFM and Support to REDD for Drylands Forests
Uzbekistan: Reducing Pressures on Natural Resources from Competing Land Use
Turkey: Sustainable Land Management and Climate Friendly Agriculture
Mongolia: Securing Forest Ecosystems through Participatory Management and Benefit Sharing
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Carbon dioxide sequestered (ton per hectare per year)
No-tillage
Inorganic fertilizerIntercropping
Alley farmingManure
Cover crops
Crop residues
Rotation intensification
Soil amendments
Terracing
Rotation diversification
Rainwater harvesting Cross slope barriers
Include trees Afforestation
Tree crop farming
Improved fallow
Source: World Bank, 2012
“Normal” or sustainable level of SOC
BAU GEF Project with LDFA Resources
GEF Project with LD + MFA Resources
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SLM for food security
SLM+SFM+LULUCF for CC-M
Scenarios for SOC in GEF Projects
Emerging Global Priorities for SLM• Agriculture (crop, trees, livestock) and Environment
GEF positioning in the context of SDGs– specifically GEF role in aligning the environmental agenda in
agriculture to address the challenges facing global sustainability.
• Food Security, especially in Drylands – improving food crop production through SLM LD positioning
• maintaining the land resources and ecosystem services needed to support crop and livestock production
Increased carbon in soils
Climate-smart agriculture
Decrease GHG emissions
Mitigation
Value to farmers, communities, society
More biomass, more residue, more production
More employment
Better land management
Adaptation
Agriculture production and
productivity
Climate change
Reduce poverty and food security
How low carbon options contribute to agriculture productivity and food security
Implications
• Focus on transformational change at scale• Stronger link to global development aspirations –
agriculture and food security, “Nexus” approach • Demonstrate and harness effective cross-focal
area linkages – synergies for conventions• Non-traditional Partnerships – sectors,
institutions• More resources, effectively targeted
Challenges
• Resource allocation – justifying focal area priorities
• Global Environmental Benefits – from single to multiple focal areas
• Monitoring and reporting – Focal Area Tracking Tools