The OOM details what we are hoping to achieve through the project, not only ourselves at a system level through influencing others in the ecosystem.
OOM Submitted to SCF on July 20
Outcome: By 2031, multiple government and private actors in Bihar collaborate to reduce emissions from agriculture by upto 25% relative to a BAU scenario (up to 9.6 MTCO2e), without compromising yield / productivity, through adoption of sustainable and agro-ecological practices by small scale producers (SSPs) and success of this program has inspired similar action in other states
Objective: The government of Bihar strengthens climate focus of its agricultural extension program and by September 2023 delivers evidence-backed, locally relevant climate-smart production practices to over 200,000 smallholder farmers and ~50,000 farmers adopt these practices and reduce 10,000 tons of CO2e with a path to further scale-up
Milestone 1: By December 2021, JEEViKA scales the program to multiple blocks / districts and a v1.0 MRV platform is used to capture and quantify data on farmer practices by 40 VRPs on ~1,600 farmers during the dry / rabi season
MIlestone 2: By June 2022, leverage three models (DNDC, CoolFarmTool and CENTURY) to establish a baseline emission footprint based on existing practices for ~1,600 farmers
Milestone 3: By December 2022, Bihar DoA utilizes data captured by MRV platform to review its performance on driving adoption of climate smart practices.
Milestone 4: By December 2022, initiate a feedback loop where data captured by the MRV platform informs research and policy maker agendas and practices identified by partners such as Cereal Systems Initiative of South Asia (CSISA) and the Tata Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition as reducing yield scaled emissions are incorporated into JEEViKA’s farmer advisories and reach +120,000 farmers
Milestone 5: By July 2023, GHG emission reduction from agriculture, is promoted, tracked and internalized within the JEEViKA extension system, recognized in Bihar’s state climate action plans and the state is on a path to achieving the 2031 Outcome
Milestone 6: By September 2023, results shared with other states with goal of adapting model in other contexts (e.g., Andhra Pradesh’s Community Managed Natural Farming)
Milestone 7: By September 2023, one stakeholder (commodity buyer, certification agency, carbon offset project developer) leverages practice + emission estimates from farmer data wallet to drive a purchase or similar action demonstrating that the MRV is credible and data wallet delivers value to farmers.