Climate Smart Agriculture

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Climate Smart Agriculture

• Policy trade offs in the Netherlands

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• The Netherlands at a glance

• 16.805.037 (2013) inhabitants
• 449,9 people per km²
• 37.354 km²
• Partly sub-sea level
• Polders
• Sea defenses and dikes
• Well known for agriculture
• bulbs, dairy, tomatoes, potatoes, cheese, seeds
• Unesco world heritage, mainly water related
• Waddensea, polders

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Dutch agriculture key figures

• Economic significance of the AgriFood complex
• 10 of employment 675.000 fte
• Added value 52 billion (9,5 GDP)
• Livestock 26 billion
• Horticulture 7 billion
• Export Value 75 billon (19)
• Export driven
• Agriculture in the Netherlands
• Ca 68.000 SMEs
• Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Climate mitigation policies

• Netherlands
• EU member Kyoto agreement
• Specific mitigation reduction targets (2020)
• Horticulture -20 CO2-eq
• Live stock -30 CO2-eq
• Realisation (2011) -28.9
• Energy policy
• Energy taxes
• Degressive favoring bigger users
• Energy efficiency
• Renewable energy
• Livestock policies
• Discussion about sectoral targets 2030

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Sustainable Production Policies

• EU policies
• Insurances
• Investment guarantees
• Innovation
• Export enhancing policies
• Environmental policies
• Water- and soil-quality
• Nutrients
• Air Quality
• NOx, NH3, small particles
• Animal welfare

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Climate Adaptation Policies

• Netherlands Low countries
• Vulnerable to sea level rise
• Vulnerable to river flooding
• Serious Adaptation programm
• Water based
• 2017 new strategy, broader scope
• Seed and starting material sector
• Breeding and genetics
• Main issues
• Preventing flooding
• Preserving sweet water supply
• salinization
• Controlling water levels

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3 Policy areas interactions most interesting
Sustainable Food production
Mitigation
Adaptation
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Policy trade offs Horticulture
Production Mitigation Adaptation
Energy tax system -
Renewable energy
Sweet water
Flooding
Spatial planning -
Waste water quality -
Fertilizer use -
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Policy trade offs crop production
Production Mitigation Adaptation
Renewable energy 0
Farm fuels 0?
Fertilizer and pesticides -
Flooding
Sweet water
Soil, organic matter
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Policy trade offs dairy production
Production Mitigation Adaptation
Energy taxes 0
Renewable energy 0
Amount of animals -
Feed
LULUCF -
Farm fuels 0? ?
Fertilizer -
Flooding
Water quality -
Air quality -
Animal welfare - -
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Trade offsreview

• In every sector different trade offs
• Dependent on main sectoral characteristics
• Energy use
• Land use
• Non CO2 GHG emissions
• Environmental performance
• Sectors working on their licence to produce
• Animal welfare
• NL Making production more sustainable
• Environmental trade offs leading
• Adaptation is in our genes

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Discussion

• System boundaries
• Production or sustainable production?
• environmental trade offs?
• Fertilizer?
• AFOLU or LULUCF?
• Policy allingnment
• Responsibilities and Priorities?
• Intervention Level
• Policy or farm scale?
• Actors science, companies, governments, . NGOs?

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Any Qs?

• As will follow (if possible)

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Challences

• Incentive for Non-CO2 GHG
• EU milk quotum
• Secure investment possibilities
• Farmers themselves
• Stricter climate policy
• Multiple goals at farm level interactions?
• Energy
• Saving and producing
• Biofuels
• Land use (LULUCF)
• And oh yeah, sustainable production as well

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3 Policy areas trade offs most interesting
Food production

• Water retention areas
• LULUCF / water level
• Sweet water supply

• Production renewable energy (biomass etc)
• Fertilizer use
• Desubsidize farm fuels
• Degressive energy taxes

Mitigation
Adaptation

• Organic matter in soils
• Oxidation of organic soils

Ministerie van Economische Zaken
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Ministerie van Economische Zaken
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13 juni 2016
13 juni 2016
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3 Policy areas interactions most interesting
Food production

• Water retention areas
• Saline crops (potato)
• Animal and plant diseases, pests

• Horticulture and energy
• GHG dairy production
• Production renewable energy (biomass etc)
• Fertilizer use

• Mitigation
• Fossil fuels
• CO2 concentration
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Adaptation

• Organic matter in soils
• Oxidation of organic soils

Ministerie van Economische Zaken
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13 juni 2016