PREPARED FOR:

The Hon. Minister and Ministry of Agriculture

PROJECT NAME:

National Declaration of a Comprehensive

Climate-Smart Agriculture Protocol: C-SAC® Tool

PREPARED BY:

Steve V. Maximay

Project
Proposal
February 2022

ADDRESS:

Morne Jaloux
St. George
Grenada

PHONE:

1(473)-536-8774

EMAIL:

smaximay@sbi-tt.com
 I Contents

01 Background 01

02 Rationale 01

03 Problem 02

04 Recommendation 03

05 Uses 05

06 Additional Benefits 06

07 Implementation 07

08 About the Trademark Owner 07

09 Proof of Authentication 08

10 Supporting Videos 09

11 Contact 10

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 II Abbreviations & Acronyms

CSA Climate-Smart Agriculture

C-SAC® Climate-Smart Agriculture Compliant
MRV Measurement, Recording and Verification
NDC Nationally Determined Contributions
The Ministry Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

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 01 Background

The Ministry clearly states in its Mission “To facilitate agricultural

development through the sustainable utilisation of natural resources”
inter alia by “Adopting climate smart agricultural practices and facilitating
climate change research”. There is no more “sustainable use of natural
resources” to deal with the existential threat of the Climate Crisis than a
truly comprehensive CSA.

Although the Ministry has stated its intention to promote and adopt CSA,
there has never been a clearly articulated comprehensive set of protocols
and practices. To address this looming problem, C-SAC®, a tried, field-
tested and trademarked tool and protocol is recommended.

C-SAC®
A registered trademark

02 Rationale
CSA is meant to:
1. Improve food security and
agricultural productivity. C-SAC® is designed to address all
2. Increase the resilience of three areas of CSA.
farming systems to climate
change by adaptation.
3. Capture potential mitigation
co-benefits.
These CSA reasons were developed
by International consensus.

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 03 Problem

The problem is the absence of a comprehensive CSA tool and

protocol that mainstreams CSA and ensures compliance. A
number of factors have tempered and stymied the national
efforts at mainstreaming CSA. These include:
Incomplete articulation of a truly comprehensive CSA.
Unidimensional design, implementation and evaluation.
No prioritizing tool against “greenwashing”.
Loss of mitigative contributions from CSA .
No locally verifiable eco-linked Quality Labeling Standard.
Whilst this is not an exhaustive list, it highlights the more
significant barriers.

WHAT IS MEANT BY INCOMPLETE ARTICULATION OF A

TRULY COMPREHENSIVE CSA?

Incomplete articulation refers to the reality of the piecemeal

explanation of an approach that includes a suite of practices
and overarching philosophy due to the absence of a
comprehensive CSA approach. This is evidenced by the
projects funded thus far that concentrated on one or two
practices such as “water harvesting” or “composting,” whilst
ignoring even complementary activities. Because the
project is only focused on one practice, it will be categorised
as unidimensional.

UNIDIMENSIONAL PROJECT
This unidimensional project design
has been recognized by international
agencies1 as not being transformative
and as potential avenues for
greenwashing.

IMPACT OF NO MITIGITATION IN CSA ON THE STATE

The majority of CSA projects conducted have no mitigative
component thereby limiting the significance of the sector to
Barbados’s NDC.

HOW TO REWARD CSA-COMPLIANT PRODUCERS?

Producers who operate in a climate-smart manner should
be rewarded but there is no verifiable mechanism to
financially reward these producers.

1 UN-FAO is currently funding a review of these unidimensional projects to gather lessons learnt
to inform the design of transformative projects.

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 04 Recommendation

The listed barriers (or the problem) will be removed with the national
adoption of the tried, field-tested, scalable, user-friendly, comprehensive C-
SAC® tool and protocol. C-SAC® comprehensively addresses the five
components of CSA along with the stated secondary issues.

C-SAC® COMPONENTS

RESOURCE BIODIVERSITY GREENHOUSE

CONSERVATION ENERGY USE SAFETY GAS REDUCTION
SUPPORT

Main focus: Main focus: Main focus: Main focus:

Mitigation, Adaptation, Main focus:
Adaptation Food Mitigation
Agricultural Security Food
Productivity Security

FORMS OF C-SAC® SOLUTION

The C-SAC® solution is available in three forms.

DESKTOP APP PAPER-BASED MOBILE APP

MANUAL VOL. 3.0 2021

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 04 Recommendation

HOW C-SAC® WORKS?

Table 1 - Points System
C-SAC® provides a step-by-step, checklist style, 5
Excellent
guide to ascribing a numeric value to the -

parameters being assessed. Each project,

process or product under review is subjected to 4
Good
a total of twenty questions. These questions are -

grouped in fours across five categories. Each

question seeks answers to an aspect of CSA.
The answer to each question will be ascribed a
3
-

Average
value within a 1 - 5 points system. The 5-points
system i.e. Nil =1, Fair =2 Average =3, Good =4,
2
-

Fair
and Excellent =5 is shown in Table 1.

1
-
Nil

TABLE 2 - COMPLIANCE LEVEL WITH RESPECT

TO CSA

Compliance Level Aggregate Point Scale

C-SAC® has been designed

to characterize each
Level 5 80-100 points reviewed project in terms
of its level of compliance
Level 4 70-79 points with respect to CSA. This is
Level 3 shown in Table 2. The level
60-69 points
of compliance is based on
Level 2 50-59 points the points derived from the
points system that is
Level 1 40-49 points shown in Table 1.

UNDER
Failure to attain a score of 40 and above implies
non-compliance. The project did not meet the
minimum requirements to be certified as a
genuinely comprehensive and holistic CSA project,
Pooints
process or product. NON-COMPLIANCE

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 05 Uses

Owing to its comprehensive and holistic design, C-SAC® is a complete CSA

solution. Its versatility is all encompassing. It is a proven tool for guaranteed
results in the following areas:

C-SAC® provides a comprehensive framework for

training.

C-SAC® can be used by the producer to assess

the operations irrespective of size of the
operation. Its a very scalable tool.

C-SAC® offers an auditing component that

augments any self assessment.

C-SAC® provides an authentication mechanism

as proof positive of adaptation and mitigation.

C-SAC® is a means of branding that certifies

produce and products as climate-smart and eco-
friendly.

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06 Additional Benefits

There are 10 additional benefits of the national adoption of C-SAC®. These are
outlined below. However, the list is not exhaustive.

Use of a comprehensive CSA as per the C-SAC® tool offers

01 adaptive and mitigative possibilities.

C-SAC® is a viable quality determinant for differential pricing of

02 products and outputs.

C-SAC®, as a self assessment tool, can be used by smallholders

03 and larger farmers.

C-SAC® provides a proven mechanism to justify Climate finance

04 and inclusion of agricultural initiatives in NDC computations.

05 Livestock and mixed farming operations can be assessed using

C-SAC®.

As an auditing tool, C-SAC® can be used as a means of

06 consensus for “Smart Contracts” using Distributed Ledger
Technologies e.g. Blockchains.

The C-SAC® five categories of compliance incorporates the

07 breadth and depth of CSA projects and can guide their design,
implementation and evaluation.

By grading degrees of Compliance, C-SAC® provides and easy to

08 explain, visual and numeric scale that can be the basis of any
prioritizing mechanism.

By including mitigation aspects of compliance such as

09 greenhouse gas reduction C-SAC® points the way for MRV
protocols as required for the completion of NDC.

C-SAC® is a registered, certifiable Brand with an eco-linked,

10 Quality Labeling Standard.

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 07 Implementation

The Ministry of Agriculture and Trademark Owner,

Steve Maximay will implement C-SAC®.

08 About the Trademark Owner

Steve Maximay BSc., MPhil., has contributed to the

Agricultural sector in Barbados in numerous
voluntary and paid capacities over the last 31 years.
He is internationally recognized as a prominent
Caribbean Scientist, Innovator and CSA Expert.

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 09 Proof of Authentication

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 10 Supporting Videos
The full videos can be found on Steve Maximay's YouTube channel.
C-SAC® LAUNCH

WINSTON RUDDER, FORMER FAO SUB REGIONAL

REPRESENTATIVE, ENDORSEMENT OF C-SAC®

C-SAC® AT CARIBBEAN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE

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 11 Contact

STEVE V. MAXIMAY
Trademark Owner

Morne Jaloux
St. George
Grenada

1(473)-536-8774

smaximay@sbi-tt.com

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