Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) makes financial sense for businesses. Governments are increasingly holding the private sector responsible for their role in climate change impacts. Extreme weather events are incredibly costly for businesses. This is particularly true in agriculture, which relies heav...
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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| author | Nowak, Andreea C. Steward, Peter R. Namoi, Nictor Mayzelle, Megan Kamau, Hannah N. Lamanna, Christine Rosenstock, Todd S. |
| author_browse | Kamau, Hannah N. Lamanna, Christine Mayzelle, Megan Namoi, Nictor Nowak, Andreea C. Rosenstock, Todd S. Steward, Peter R. |
| author_facet | Nowak, Andreea C. Steward, Peter R. Namoi, Nictor Mayzelle, Megan Kamau, Hannah N. Lamanna, Christine Rosenstock, Todd S. |
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| description | Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) makes financial sense for businesses. Governments are increasingly holding the private sector responsible for their role in climate change impacts. Extreme weather events are incredibly costly for businesses. This is particularly true in agriculture, which relies heavily on favorable weather conditions. CSA practices and technologies are central to the transformative changes necessary to maintain the stability—and profitability—of the food system in the face of climate change. Where robust information on the benefits, costs, and risks of interventions is missing or incomplete, would-be investors, including donors, governments, businesses, and farmers, remain uninformed of the potentially massive dividends climate-smart investments could offer. This dearth of viable business models ultimately hinders the mainstreaming of productive, climate-resilient, low-emissions agriculture. Robust business-case analyses of CSA could accelerate the scaling of promising, profitable technologies by transparently and rigorously laying out the monetary and nonmonetary values of performance. We use existing data from Evidence for Resilient Agriculture (ERA, previously known as The Compendium) to develop a general framework for establishing the business case for specific farm-level agricultural technologies. The framework focuses on the costs, benefits, and risks of adoption of CSA by smallholder farmers. We illustrate the application of the framework with two case studies in Kenya and Malawi to highlight opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned from building business cases for CSA. These give potential investors the tools to screen and select appropriate technologies and help de-risk investments where data are few and far between. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1090332024-01-23T12:04:17Z Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments Nowak, Andreea C. Steward, Peter R. Namoi, Nictor Mayzelle, Megan Kamau, Hannah N. Lamanna, Christine Rosenstock, Todd S. climate-smart agriculture resilience enterprises productivity agriculture scale data smallholders food security climate change Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) makes financial sense for businesses. Governments are increasingly holding the private sector responsible for their role in climate change impacts. Extreme weather events are incredibly costly for businesses. This is particularly true in agriculture, which relies heavily on favorable weather conditions. CSA practices and technologies are central to the transformative changes necessary to maintain the stability—and profitability—of the food system in the face of climate change. Where robust information on the benefits, costs, and risks of interventions is missing or incomplete, would-be investors, including donors, governments, businesses, and farmers, remain uninformed of the potentially massive dividends climate-smart investments could offer. This dearth of viable business models ultimately hinders the mainstreaming of productive, climate-resilient, low-emissions agriculture. Robust business-case analyses of CSA could accelerate the scaling of promising, profitable technologies by transparently and rigorously laying out the monetary and nonmonetary values of performance. We use existing data from Evidence for Resilient Agriculture (ERA, previously known as The Compendium) to develop a general framework for establishing the business case for specific farm-level agricultural technologies. The framework focuses on the costs, benefits, and risks of adoption of CSA by smallholder farmers. We illustrate the application of the framework with two case studies in Kenya and Malawi to highlight opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned from building business cases for CSA. These give potential investors the tools to screen and select appropriate technologies and help de-risk investments where data are few and far between. 2020-08-18 2020-08-18T22:05:16Z 2020-08-18T22:05:16Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109033 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Nowak AC, Steward P, Namoi N, Mayzelle M, Kamau H, Lamanna C, Rosenstock TS. 2020. Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments. CCAFS Working paper No.316. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). |
| spellingShingle | climate-smart agriculture resilience enterprises productivity agriculture scale data smallholders food security climate change Nowak, Andreea C. Steward, Peter R. Namoi, Nictor Mayzelle, Megan Kamau, Hannah N. Lamanna, Christine Rosenstock, Todd S. Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments |
| title | Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments |
| title_full | Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments |
| title_fullStr | Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments |
| title_short | Climate-smart agriculture is good for business: A framework for establishing the business case for climate-smart agriculture investments |
| title_sort | climate smart agriculture is good for business a framework for establishing the business case for climate smart agriculture investments |
| topic | climate-smart agriculture resilience enterprises productivity agriculture scale data smallholders food security climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109033 |
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