The Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Program, carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with national and international partners, comprises a set of pilot projects designed to integrate climate-smart practices into existing smallholder agricultural development activities.
The MICCA Program’s wider goal is to facilitate developing countries to mitigate climate change in agriculture by moving toward climate smart agricultural practices and policies.
A variety of activities are promoted under this umbrella to support policy and decision-making, as well as to provide input to the international negotiations on climate change. Such activities include developing a database of greenhouse gas emissions for agricultural activities that provide comparable global and country-level data, and to increase country level capacity for reporting on emissions.
MICCA Pilot Projects operate in four countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Ecuador.
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- Developing a database of greenhouse gas emissions for agricultural activities that provide comparable global and country-level data
- Increase country-level capacity for reporting on emissions
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| Key Results / Outputs: |
- Pilot projects designed to integrate climate-smart practices into existing smallholder agricultural development activities.
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| Key Outcomes: |
- The MICCA Program’s wider goal is to facilitate developing countries to mitigate climate change in agriculture by moving toward climate smart agricultural practices and policies.
- In Kenya, MICCA collaboration led by Heifer International under the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) Program aims to reduce the overall GHG balance of livestock production systems by testing various integrated production systems including improved agro-pastoral management.
- The MICCA pilot project in Tanzania is implemented within the framework of Hillside Conservation Agriculture Project (HICAP), by CARE International, which integrates soil and water conservation and zero tillage practices into smallholder farm management and promotes agroforestry.
- FAO Vietnam and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development collaborate under a MICCA pilot project to measure greenhouse gasses in rice production and rice residue utilization for energy generation as a capacity-enhancing strategy toward nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMA).
- In Ecuador, MICCA and UN-REDD collaborate to strengthen the country’s capacity to monitor greenhouse gas emissions and to report Ecuador’s national GHG inventory (NGHGI), agriculture and LULUCF components to the UNFCCC. National and international institutes came together to acknowledge technical and institutional capacities and to identify gaps for the preparation and presentation of Agriculture and LULUCF sectors in Ecuador’s first BUR submission.
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Photo credit: P. Kimeli (CIFOR) | Farmer in Lushoto, Tanzania prepares seedlings for transplanting.
