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Time/date: Friday, Oct 29, 2021, 7am PDT / 7:30pm IST

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Time allocation

Item

15 min

Taking stock - brief presentation on the progress and status of the project

Plans for next quarter including content creation and dissemination of advisories

Update on partnership with JEEViKA

Update on funding/donor

35 min

Introduction to the baseline framework and the data we are capturing from the field, discussions and action agenda

Expected inputs from partners/outcome of the discussion

  1. How to establish a baseline for emission estimation based on current practises and improve the quality of data

  2. What type of information is needed for the partners to strengthen the approach and impact

  3. What should be our coordination mechanism/frequency of meetings - both at a higher level and at the operational level

10 min

Way forward and timelines till March 2021

Attendees:

DG: Krish, Rikin, Ashu, Ashok, Falguni, Ronali, Gelsey

EDF: Richie

CSISA consortium: Balwinder and Sonam (CYMMYT), Andy McDonald (Cornell)

Notes:

  • Update on funding: Last night (Oct 28) we received formal approval/notification from the donor, Sequoia Climate Fund. We expect a grant agreement shortly.

  • Update on partnership: A week ago we received a formal letter of support from JEEViKA.

  • Update on progress on the ground:

    • Ashok presented data summary and details collected (paddy land, urea used, green naturing practices, etc.). Link to presentation.

    • CSA practices followed currently by farmers: (1) water management (drying after transplanting), (2) green manuring/green gram, (3) application of jeevamrutha/ghanajeevamruta (but not used at large scale) and (4) aware of varietals (long/short term varieties)

    • CSISA MIP for wheat (Rabi 2021): early sowing, zero tillage variety promotion, irrigation mgmt, N optimization

    • DG has video resources available, but some other ones need to be made (short duration varieties, N optimization, water management, zero tillage)

    • Next steps: Kharif data collection (Nov/Dec), training to scale to 1600 farmers (Nov-March), and emission estimates for the initial 250 farmers (Jan)

    • Provide JEEViKA clarity on: proposed activities/advisories, digitization of VRP register, stats of GG estimation, and focus on CSA MRV on GHG emission co-benefits.