ICCO West Africa

Towards carbon credit schemes in shea value chains a programmatic approach in Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana.

Presented by: V.L. van der Linden Consultant at F&S WA Victor.van.der.linden@fairandsustainable.nl +223 76 910 933 Skype id: vl.vanderlinden

• ICCO is the interchurch organization for development cooperation, partner to enterprising people

• In 44 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America we support programs that contribute to a dignified human existence and a strong local economy.

• ICCO works with 7 programs to alleviate poverty: • Fair Economic Development • Food and Nutrition Security • Education • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) • Fair Climate • Democracy and Peace • Emergency Aid

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ICCO Global

ICCO West Africa • http://www.icco-

international.com/int/about-us/regions/west-africa/

• http://m.icco.nl/west-africa/home • Office based in Bamako. Programs in

Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone

FED Program – West Africa

Approach / main themes • Sustainable production, processing,

marketing activities in chains • Organisation of farmers • Access to finance, BDS and other services • Developing sustainable business

relationships • Enabling environment, i.e. regulatory

frameworks, access to land, good governance, accountability

Approach / main themes • Connect4Change Alliance adds ICT

component to our value chain interventions • Multi stakeholder processes in shea and

sesame sectors (ML and BF, Ghana starting up) – Started August 2012 – Programmatic Approach – Regular stakeholder meetings – Systemic change through joined forces – Joint financing and learning

The Fair Climate Fund • Fairclimate Fund: • Fair Climate flyer • FairClimateFund

The Fair Climate Fund was established by ICCO in 2009 to buy and sell the carbon credits generated by these projects on the voluntary Dutch and European markets. Revenue from these credits flows back to the people in the developing countries where the credits were generated.

The Fair Climate Fund • Scale-up goals are: • Development of existing and new Fair Climate

Networks • Development of capacity and business

approaches among NGOs and other social entities • Increased expertise in carbon credit development. • Development and implementation of carbon credit-

generating projects • Financing of carbon project registration processes. • Participation of European companies in carbon-

neutral value chains

State of the art 2013 • ICCO is taking a more regional approach

to shea value chain development – Strategic collaboration with Global Shea

Alliance – Expansion of program to Ghana, open for

exploring interventions in other shea countries – Capitalising on experiences / programmatic

approach – More focus on environmental aspect of the

shea chain (see case study)

Carbon Footprint of Hand-Crafted Shea Butter in Cosmetic Products Commissioned by: ICCO West Africa Researcher: David Glew Company: The Savannah Fruits Company Ltd. www.savannahfruits.com

CASE (executive summary):

• The aim of the study is to provide a picture of GHG emissions across the shea butter supply chain to highlight where emissions savings can most effectively be made, specifically regarding the use of efficient stoves.

• This information will be useful in providing the shea industry with a platform on which to reduce its environmental impacts.

Justification and Aim

Method • This research uses the British Standard

PAS2050.

• The functional unit is set as: “GHG (kgCO2eq) of 1kg Shea in a cosmetic product”.

• Mass allocation is used to distribute emissions among Shea butter’s co-products such as the husks and kernel residue that can be used as a biofuel or compost.

System Boundary Hand collected sheanuts

Shea kernels

Husks

Kernel Residue

Unrefined hand-crafted shea butter

Boiling, Drying and De-husking, Transport

Roasting, Milling Boiling, Kneading,

Filtering, Packaging, Transport

Refined shea butter

Refining, Packaging, Transport

Shea butter in cosmetics

Formulation, Packaging, Storage, Transport Input

Supply chain

Output

49.5%

25.9%

0.6% 1.1%

19.6%

3.3% Harvesting and Dehusking

Butter Extraction

Refining

Formulation

Final product Packaging

Transport

• Burning woody biofuels to pre-treat the nut for de-husking and to extract butter are by far the largest emitting processes.

• The focus of carbon reduction effort in the Shea supply chain should address the source and use of wood in the extraction process as a priority.

Results

Reducing GHG using Stoves

10.37

8.44

6.50

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

Traditional Stove 25% Wood Saving Stove 50% Wood Saving

kgCO2eq of 1 kg Shea Butter in Cosmetics Comparing Traditional Extraction and Stoves

• Stoves could reduce Shea butter’s carbon footprint though Shea may still lag behind other conventional vegetable oils.

• The GHG emissions of traditionally produced shea butter may generally be expected to exceed that of other vegetable oil.

• The use of woody biofuels on open fires are mostly responsible for this.

• Efficient stoves can reduce shea’s GHG by as much as 40%.

• Future research may be directed into reducing the consumption of wood and sourcing from sustainable sources.

Conclusions

Contact researcher

• We would be very grateful to any companies who are willing to provide energy data on the extraction and refining stages of Shea’s life cycle.

• We are happy receive any feedback or questions on the data presented here.

• This report will be published in spring or summer 2013.

• For further information please contact David Glew dwg501@york.ac.uk

• To develop interventions / programs to reduce emissions and promote carbon neutral shea value chain in Ghana, BF and ML. We intend to do carbon footprints in BF (done already) and ML as well.

Follow up

Contacts ICCO Manon Stravens Program Officer FED Ghana and Sierra Leone Office phone: 00223 20 29 3113 Cell phone: 00223 76536764 Skype: manon.stravens1 Manon.Stravens@iccokia.org Mamadou Diarrah Program Officer FED Mali and Burkina Faso +22375122172 Mamadou.Diarrah@iccokia.org Fair Climate Fund: Gert de Gans gert.de.gans@fairclimatefund.nl ICCO West Africa: