Full set of training slides for Green Innovation Center Adaptation Academy climate change and foresight training co-organized by AICCRA Themes 1 and 2 presented by Ivy Kinyua, Dorcas Jalongo Anyango and Stephanie Jacquet, AICCRA team
The document discusses climate smart agriculture practices. It defines climate smart agriculture as an approach that aims to sustainably increase productivity and incomes, adapt and build resilience to climate change, and reduce and/or remove greenhouse gas emissions. The document outlines various climate smart agricultural practices and approaches, including crop management practices, soil/water management, livestock/agroforestry management, and more. It also discusses challenges and the need for capacity building, knowledge sharing, financial support, and policy frameworks to promote widespread adoption of climate smart agriculture.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to provide a general overview of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and the EPIC programme. After providing a definition of CSA, the presentation focuses on Sustainable Land Management and the role of climate finance to support CSA. It concludes with a description of the FAO-EC project on CSA.
Agroecology: The Foundation for Food System SustainabilityExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/agroecology-symposium-china/en/
Key note presentation of Steve Gliessman, from University of California Santa Cruz, on agroecology as the foundations for food system sustianability. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology in China, held in Kunming, China on 29-31 August 2016.
A presentation written by Miguel Altieri, Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, with the participation of Angela Hilmi. You can choose to download the short or the long version; both of them are in Power Point format and available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese download at ag-transition.org
Climate-smart agriculture aims to achieve two goals: ensuring food security and avoiding dangerous climate change. To meet the increasing food demand by 2050 while adapting to climate change, agriculture must increase productivity sustainably. Practices like conserving and managing water resources efficiently and reducing food losses can help boost food security and mitigate emissions. However, achieving these goals also depends on demographic, economic, and consumption pattern changes. Climate-smart agriculture sustains productivity and resilience increases while reducing greenhouse gases to enhance food security and development, using ecosystem-based landscape approaches. Key actions include investing in research, supporting smallholders' transition, and aligning agriculture, food security, and climate change policies and financing. Agriculture's full mitigation potential lies not
The document discusses climate smart agriculture practices. It defines climate smart agriculture as an approach that aims to sustainably increase productivity and incomes, adapt and build resilience to climate change, and reduce and/or remove greenhouse gas emissions. The document outlines various climate smart agricultural practices and approaches, including crop management practices, soil/water management, livestock/agroforestry management, and more. It also discusses challenges and the need for capacity building, knowledge sharing, financial support, and policy frameworks to promote widespread adoption of climate smart agriculture.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to provide a general overview of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and the EPIC programme. After providing a definition of CSA, the presentation focuses on Sustainable Land Management and the role of climate finance to support CSA. It concludes with a description of the FAO-EC project on CSA.
Agroecology: The Foundation for Food System SustainabilityExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/agroecology-symposium-china/en/
Key note presentation of Steve Gliessman, from University of California Santa Cruz, on agroecology as the foundations for food system sustianability. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology in China, held in Kunming, China on 29-31 August 2016.
A presentation written by Miguel Altieri, Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, with the participation of Angela Hilmi. You can choose to download the short or the long version; both of them are in Power Point format and available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese download at ag-transition.org
Climate-smart agriculture aims to achieve two goals: ensuring food security and avoiding dangerous climate change. To meet the increasing food demand by 2050 while adapting to climate change, agriculture must increase productivity sustainably. Practices like conserving and managing water resources efficiently and reducing food losses can help boost food security and mitigate emissions. However, achieving these goals also depends on demographic, economic, and consumption pattern changes. Climate-smart agriculture sustains productivity and resilience increases while reducing greenhouse gases to enhance food security and development, using ecosystem-based landscape approaches. Key actions include investing in research, supporting smallholders' transition, and aligning agriculture, food security, and climate change policies and financing. Agriculture's full mitigation potential lies not
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food SecurityShenggen Fan
This document discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security. It notes that climate change will negatively affect crop and livestock yields through higher temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events. This will lower global food production and increase food prices and malnutrition. Agriculture is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions but can also help mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration. The document calls for integrating climate change into strategies to adapt agriculture and ensure food security, such as investing in research, irrigation, drought-resistant crops, and social safety nets.
Reshaping the Food System for Food Security & NutritionExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership/en/
This presentation was presented during the Eurasian Soil Partnership workshop that was held on 29 February - 02 March 2016 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and it was made by Shenggen Fan.
Benefits of Conservation Agriculture presentation for Conference on Climate C...Paul Zaake
Conservation agriculture (CA) provides benefits to farmers and the environment by maintaining permanent soil cover, minimizing soil disturbance, and using crop rotations. CA increases land, labor, and water productivity while enhancing soil nutrients, biota, and economic profits compared to conventional agriculture. It uses resources more efficiently, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and fossil fuel use. CA is also accessible to small-scale farmers, though access to equipment can be challenging. For best results, farmers should experiment with CA principles and practices based on their local conditions rather than adopting it in a standardized way.
This document outlines an assessment of climate-smart agriculture (CSA). It discusses indicators for measuring CSA's contributions to food security, adaptation, and mitigation. It provides examples of successful CSA projects from FAO and others, including those focusing on improved rice cultivation techniques in Vietnam, drought-tolerant maize varieties in Africa, and livestock insurance programs in Kenya and Ethiopia. The document concludes with instructions for a breakout group exercise to further assess the CSA potential of case studies.
Research Outputs and Approaches to Enhance Food Security and Improve Livelih...ICARDA
The document summarizes research outputs and approaches from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) to enhance food security and improve livelihoods. It discusses constraints like drought, desertification, and climate change leading to food insecurity. ICARDA's strategic plan focuses on risk management, integrated water and land management, and diversification to improve nutrition and incomes. Technologies developed include improved crop varieties tolerant to abiotic stresses and diseases, as well as seed production approaches to cope with drought.
Agriculture has been and continues to be the most important sector in Indian economy. Climate change is one of the most important environmental issues facing the world today. The impact of climate change is a reality and it cuts across all climates sensitive sectors including the Agriculture sector. In this situation this seminar focuses on the climate smart agriculture. CSA brings together practices, policies and institutions that are not necessarily new but are used in the context of climatic changes which is prime requirement in arena of climate change. Farmers possessed low level of knowledge regarding climate change, and they adopted traditional methods to mitigate the impact of climate change. Small land holdings, poor extension services and non availability of stress tolerant verities were the major problems faced by the farmers in adoption to climate change. Extension functionaries were having medium level awareness about impact of climate change on agriculture. They used electronic media, training and conferences and seminars as major sources of information for climate change. They need training on climate smart agriculture aspects. Based on the above facts this presentation focuses on analyzing the opportunities and challenges of climate smart agriculture.
Presentation by Robert Zougmore, CCAFS Regional Program Leader, West Africa, at the at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The document discusses climate change adaptation challenges and strategies in East Africa. It notes that agriculture is the main economic activity in the region but is heavily reliant on rain-fed smallholder farming, leaving it vulnerable to climate impacts. Poverty levels in East Africa range from 19.5% to 45.9%. The document outlines climate hazards like droughts and flooding that threaten food security and economies. It discusses Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda's policies and plans to implement climate adaptation strategies in agriculture, and priorities for research to build resilience through practices like agroforestry.
What is Climate-Smart Agriculture? Background, opportunities and challengesCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Alexandre Meybeck of the FAO was given at a session titled "Using climate-smart technologies to scale up climate-smart agriculture practices" at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, on December 7, 2014.
The panel presentation and discussion focused on how these climate-smart technologies can be scaled-up to benefit smallholder farmers. This was followed by a public debate.
This document discusses climate-smart agriculture, its implementation globally and in Africa, and opportunities for Africa to lead in this area. It defines climate-smart agriculture as agriculture that sustainably increases productivity and resilience to climate change while reducing greenhouse gases. Examples show climate-smart agriculture being implemented at large scales around the world. For Africa to lead, opportunities exist in providing institutional support like climate information services, coordinating agriculture and forestry, creating innovation platforms, influencing policy with African science, and bringing together policy and science to support farmers.
Landscape restoration efforts in Ethiopia have led to improved food and water security and decreased soil and water loss. Major efforts include watershed management, gully reclamation, water harvesting, and tree planting. These activities are implemented through community participation and have achieved encouraging results. Lessons learned indicate that restoration is key to national policy and has increased vegetation cover, biodiversity, and awareness of the multiple benefits of landscape restoration.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
What is sustainable agriculture ppt Presentation by Allah Dad Khan Mr.Allah Dad Khan
1. The document discusses sustainable agriculture and defines it as a farming system that mimics natural ecosystems by being profitable, environmentally friendly, and supporting communities.
2. Key aspects of sustainable agriculture include diversification of crops and livestock, applying organic matter to soils, using cover crops and crop rotations, and direct marketing to consumers.
3. The goals of sustainable agriculture are to provide secure livelihoods for farmers and rural communities, ensure access to healthy food for all, and preserve environmental resources like soil and water quality.
- Agroecology is an approach that can increase agricultural productivity and sustainability by optimizing the use of local resources through diversification and minimizing external inputs.
- Key principles of agroecology include recycling nutrients on the farm, integrating crops and livestock, and focusing on interactions across the entire agricultural system.
- Agroecological practices maintain biodiversity through various techniques like crop rotation, cover crops, and agroforestry systems, which improve pest regulation, nutrient recycling, and ecosystem functions to increase yields over the long term in a sustainable way.
Theme 4 - Climate Change Mitigation and AdaptationCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Christopher Martius, Henry Neufeldt, Glenn Hyman and Laura Snook focuses on the objectives and structure of the climate change adaptation and mitigation program of the FTA Research Program, their evolution over time, the major accomplishments and the main obstacles and challenges.
This presentation discusses climate smart agriculture. It defines key concepts like weather, climate, and the greenhouse effect. It explains how climate change is impacting Nepal's agriculture sector through increased temperatures, more extreme weather, and reduced crop yields. The presentation outlines the objectives of climate smart agriculture to develop practices that help farming adapt to climate change by being more resilient, productive, and low-carbon. Specific climate smart agriculture strategies discussed include conservation tillage, agroforestry, water management techniques, and ensuring gender inclusion in climate adaptation efforts.
Climate resilient agriculture adaptation and mitigation strategiesDevegowda S R
This document discusses climate resilient agriculture and its importance in India. It provides definitions of key terms like climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation. It outlines various strategies for climate resilient practices in agriculture, including developing drought/heat tolerant crop varieties, improved water management, and diversifying crops and farm practices. The National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) is described as the major government project focused on building resilience through strategic research, technology demonstrations, and capacity building. Several case studies on awareness, adoption and impact of climate resilient practices by farmers in India are summarized.
The document discusses community climate change adaptation concepts and applications. It aims to provide an overview of community climate change adaptation, identify resources and partnerships needed to strengthen climate programming, delineate policies to improve community participation and resilience, and acknowledge challenges and pathways. It discusses key concepts like climate change impacts, community-based adaptation, climate-smart agriculture, and the role of extension services. It outlines methodologies, background on climate impacts and adaptation, and highlights challenges like uncertainty and deficits in adaptive capacities. Overall, the document presents a framework for community climate change adaptation through approaches like integration into development planning, capacity building, knowledge sharing, and education.
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food SecurityShenggen Fan
This document discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security. It notes that climate change will negatively affect crop and livestock yields through higher temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events. This will lower global food production and increase food prices and malnutrition. Agriculture is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions but can also help mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration. The document calls for integrating climate change into strategies to adapt agriculture and ensure food security, such as investing in research, irrigation, drought-resistant crops, and social safety nets.
Reshaping the Food System for Food Security & NutritionExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership/en/
This presentation was presented during the Eurasian Soil Partnership workshop that was held on 29 February - 02 March 2016 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and it was made by Shenggen Fan.
Benefits of Conservation Agriculture presentation for Conference on Climate C...Paul Zaake
Conservation agriculture (CA) provides benefits to farmers and the environment by maintaining permanent soil cover, minimizing soil disturbance, and using crop rotations. CA increases land, labor, and water productivity while enhancing soil nutrients, biota, and economic profits compared to conventional agriculture. It uses resources more efficiently, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and fossil fuel use. CA is also accessible to small-scale farmers, though access to equipment can be challenging. For best results, farmers should experiment with CA principles and practices based on their local conditions rather than adopting it in a standardized way.
This document outlines an assessment of climate-smart agriculture (CSA). It discusses indicators for measuring CSA's contributions to food security, adaptation, and mitigation. It provides examples of successful CSA projects from FAO and others, including those focusing on improved rice cultivation techniques in Vietnam, drought-tolerant maize varieties in Africa, and livestock insurance programs in Kenya and Ethiopia. The document concludes with instructions for a breakout group exercise to further assess the CSA potential of case studies.
Research Outputs and Approaches to Enhance Food Security and Improve Livelih...ICARDA
The document summarizes research outputs and approaches from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) to enhance food security and improve livelihoods. It discusses constraints like drought, desertification, and climate change leading to food insecurity. ICARDA's strategic plan focuses on risk management, integrated water and land management, and diversification to improve nutrition and incomes. Technologies developed include improved crop varieties tolerant to abiotic stresses and diseases, as well as seed production approaches to cope with drought.
Agriculture has been and continues to be the most important sector in Indian economy. Climate change is one of the most important environmental issues facing the world today. The impact of climate change is a reality and it cuts across all climates sensitive sectors including the Agriculture sector. In this situation this seminar focuses on the climate smart agriculture. CSA brings together practices, policies and institutions that are not necessarily new but are used in the context of climatic changes which is prime requirement in arena of climate change. Farmers possessed low level of knowledge regarding climate change, and they adopted traditional methods to mitigate the impact of climate change. Small land holdings, poor extension services and non availability of stress tolerant verities were the major problems faced by the farmers in adoption to climate change. Extension functionaries were having medium level awareness about impact of climate change on agriculture. They used electronic media, training and conferences and seminars as major sources of information for climate change. They need training on climate smart agriculture aspects. Based on the above facts this presentation focuses on analyzing the opportunities and challenges of climate smart agriculture.
Presentation by Robert Zougmore, CCAFS Regional Program Leader, West Africa, at the at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The document discusses climate change adaptation challenges and strategies in East Africa. It notes that agriculture is the main economic activity in the region but is heavily reliant on rain-fed smallholder farming, leaving it vulnerable to climate impacts. Poverty levels in East Africa range from 19.5% to 45.9%. The document outlines climate hazards like droughts and flooding that threaten food security and economies. It discusses Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda's policies and plans to implement climate adaptation strategies in agriculture, and priorities for research to build resilience through practices like agroforestry.
What is Climate-Smart Agriculture? Background, opportunities and challengesCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Alexandre Meybeck of the FAO was given at a session titled "Using climate-smart technologies to scale up climate-smart agriculture practices" at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, on December 7, 2014.
The panel presentation and discussion focused on how these climate-smart technologies can be scaled-up to benefit smallholder farmers. This was followed by a public debate.
This document discusses climate-smart agriculture, its implementation globally and in Africa, and opportunities for Africa to lead in this area. It defines climate-smart agriculture as agriculture that sustainably increases productivity and resilience to climate change while reducing greenhouse gases. Examples show climate-smart agriculture being implemented at large scales around the world. For Africa to lead, opportunities exist in providing institutional support like climate information services, coordinating agriculture and forestry, creating innovation platforms, influencing policy with African science, and bringing together policy and science to support farmers.
Landscape restoration efforts in Ethiopia have led to improved food and water security and decreased soil and water loss. Major efforts include watershed management, gully reclamation, water harvesting, and tree planting. These activities are implemented through community participation and have achieved encouraging results. Lessons learned indicate that restoration is key to national policy and has increased vegetation cover, biodiversity, and awareness of the multiple benefits of landscape restoration.
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
What is sustainable agriculture ppt Presentation by Allah Dad Khan Mr.Allah Dad Khan
1. The document discusses sustainable agriculture and defines it as a farming system that mimics natural ecosystems by being profitable, environmentally friendly, and supporting communities.
2. Key aspects of sustainable agriculture include diversification of crops and livestock, applying organic matter to soils, using cover crops and crop rotations, and direct marketing to consumers.
3. The goals of sustainable agriculture are to provide secure livelihoods for farmers and rural communities, ensure access to healthy food for all, and preserve environmental resources like soil and water quality.
- Agroecology is an approach that can increase agricultural productivity and sustainability by optimizing the use of local resources through diversification and minimizing external inputs.
- Key principles of agroecology include recycling nutrients on the farm, integrating crops and livestock, and focusing on interactions across the entire agricultural system.
- Agroecological practices maintain biodiversity through various techniques like crop rotation, cover crops, and agroforestry systems, which improve pest regulation, nutrient recycling, and ecosystem functions to increase yields over the long term in a sustainable way.
Theme 4 - Climate Change Mitigation and AdaptationCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Christopher Martius, Henry Neufeldt, Glenn Hyman and Laura Snook focuses on the objectives and structure of the climate change adaptation and mitigation program of the FTA Research Program, their evolution over time, the major accomplishments and the main obstacles and challenges.
This presentation discusses climate smart agriculture. It defines key concepts like weather, climate, and the greenhouse effect. It explains how climate change is impacting Nepal's agriculture sector through increased temperatures, more extreme weather, and reduced crop yields. The presentation outlines the objectives of climate smart agriculture to develop practices that help farming adapt to climate change by being more resilient, productive, and low-carbon. Specific climate smart agriculture strategies discussed include conservation tillage, agroforestry, water management techniques, and ensuring gender inclusion in climate adaptation efforts.
Climate resilient agriculture adaptation and mitigation strategiesDevegowda S R
This document discusses climate resilient agriculture and its importance in India. It provides definitions of key terms like climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation. It outlines various strategies for climate resilient practices in agriculture, including developing drought/heat tolerant crop varieties, improved water management, and diversifying crops and farm practices. The National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) is described as the major government project focused on building resilience through strategic research, technology demonstrations, and capacity building. Several case studies on awareness, adoption and impact of climate resilient practices by farmers in India are summarized.
The document discusses community climate change adaptation concepts and applications. It aims to provide an overview of community climate change adaptation, identify resources and partnerships needed to strengthen climate programming, delineate policies to improve community participation and resilience, and acknowledge challenges and pathways. It discusses key concepts like climate change impacts, community-based adaptation, climate-smart agriculture, and the role of extension services. It outlines methodologies, background on climate impacts and adaptation, and highlights challenges like uncertainty and deficits in adaptive capacities. Overall, the document presents a framework for community climate change adaptation through approaches like integration into development planning, capacity building, knowledge sharing, and education.
The document discusses climate smart agriculture as an approach to sustainable development. It describes how climate smart agriculture seeks to preserve natural resources, transition agricultural production systems, enhance food security, mitigate climate change, increase productivity, use inputs efficiently, and increase resilience. It provides examples of climate smart agriculture practices and technologies adopted, as well as challenges and recommendations for the future approach.
Reflection on Key Points from Inception WorkshopSri Lmb
The document summarizes presentations from a workshop on sustainable agriculture intensification, highlighting areas like improving rice production through conservation agriculture and sustainable rice intensification, promoting education for smallholder farmers, and developing monitoring and evaluation systems to understand impact on farmers. Key points included the need to work with natural systems to increase productivity with fewer inputs, empower farmers through participatory research and field schools, and influence policies to support sustainable intensification practices.
This document discusses redefining Africa's agrarian development policies in the face of climate change. It outlines that agricultural productivity in Africa has not kept pace with population growth, with cereal yields stagnating. Climate change impacts agro-ecosystems through changes to the environment and socioeconomics. The challenges include strengthening rural development and governance, improving productivity, and managing natural resources sustainably. Integrated actions are needed across economic growth, sustainable environments, and social equity to help rural communities weather the effects of climate change.
Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security CCAFS CIATCIAT
CCAFS aims to help agriculture and food systems adapt to and mitigate climate change through research. It has 4 themes: 1) adaptation to progressive climate change through technologies, practices and policies; 2) adaptation through managing climate risk at farm and food system levels; 3) pro-poor climate change mitigation; and 4) integration for decision making. Research is conducted in 3 focus regions - Indo-Gangetic Plains, West Africa, and East Africa - home to over 1 billion people dependent on agriculture. The goals are to close yield gaps, develop new adaptation strategies, and enable supportive policies and institutions from farm to national levels to strengthen food security under climate change.
Innovation for Sustainable Food and AgricultureFAO
Presentación (inglés) de Clayton Campanhola (FAO) en el marco del Eleventh regional planners forum on agriculture and Symposium on innovation systems for sustainable agriculture and rural development, realizado en Barbados del 13 al 15 de septiembre de 2017.
The document discusses several topics related to climate change and agroforestry:
1. It outlines two research groups focusing on adaptation and mitigation of climate change through agroforestry.
2. It summarizes some of the impacts of climate change on agroforestry species and economic activities as well as limits to adaptation.
3. It also briefly discusses the contributions of agriculture and land use to greenhouse gas emissions and benefits of trees on farms.
The document outlines the changes made to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) through a reform process. Key changes include:
1) Fifteen new CGIAR Research Programs were established to conduct integrated research across core competencies and form appropriate partnerships to achieve four system-level outcomes: reduction in poverty, increased global food security, improved nutrition, and better natural resource management.
2) A leaner structure was implemented with the Consortium providing a single contact point for donors and overseeing fifteen research centers and programs. A CGIAR Fund was also established as a new multi-donor funding mechanism.
3) The goals of CGIAR's research are now defined as four system-level
This document discusses climate-smart agriculture (CSA). CSA aims to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and food security, adapt to and build resilience against climate change, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It takes a landscape approach and considers synergies and tradeoffs between productivity, adaptation, and mitigation. CSA is context-specific and has multiple entry points, including technologies, policies, and value chains. While CSA builds on sustainable agriculture, it has a specific focus on addressing climate change impacts. The document outlines the need for CSA given climate change threats to agriculture and food security, and addresses common questions about CSA.
Climate change mitigation and adaptation 2011ver2cenafrica
This document provides an overview of Module Three which focuses on climate change and agriculture. It defines key concepts related to climate change impacts, vulnerability, adaptation, and mitigation. It discusses how climate change negatively impacts agriculture globally and regionally through changes in temperature, precipitation, and increased frequency of extreme weather events. Adaptation and coping strategies for agriculture are discussed. The module also covers agricultural innovations and systems for adapting to and mitigating climate change impacts.
Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in Food Systemsipcc-media
The document summarizes key findings from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report on the impacts of climate change on food systems. It finds that increasing extreme weather events have put millions at risk of food insecurity, and human-induced climate change has slowed agricultural growth over the past 50 years globally. Vulnerable groups are often at higher risk. There is now more evidence of observed climate impacts and complex, cascading events undermining food security. While adaptation actions have increased, there are growing gaps between needed adaptation and action taken, especially among lower-income populations. Urgent action is required to adapt to climate change and reduce emissions.
This document discusses climate smart agriculture (CSA) and outlines its importance, principles, and practices. It defines CSA as an integrated approach that addresses food security and climate change challenges by sustainably supporting agricultural development. The three pillars of CSA are increasing productivity, adapting to climate impacts, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Some key CSA practices mentioned include intercropping, conservation agriculture, water management structures, agroforestry, and livestock improvements. The document also outlines CSA activities being implemented in Ethiopia, such as watershed management, drought-resistant crops, and apiculture. While CSA provides benefits, the author notes challenges of long drought spells and pastoralist migration due to lack of feed.
This document discusses climate smart agriculture (CSA) and outlines its importance, principles, and practices. It defines CSA as an integrated approach that addresses food security and climate change challenges by sustainably supporting agricultural development. The three pillars of CSA are increasing productivity, adapting to climate impacts, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Some key CSA practices mentioned include intercropping, conservation agriculture, water management structures, agroforestry, and livestock improvements. The document also outlines CSA activities being implemented in Ethiopia, such as watershed management, drought-resistant crops, and apiculture. While CSA provides benefits, the author notes challenges of long drought spells and pastoralist migration due to lack of feed.
Rising to the challenge of establishing a climate smart agriculture - a global context presented as keynote in the Workshop on Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies in Asia workshop, organised by CCAFS, UNEP and IRRI.
Climate change and water security concern in agricultureAnoop Shrestha
Climate change poses major challenges for agriculture by threatening food production systems and water security worldwide. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events will reduce agricultural productivity and irrigation water availability. Both adaptation and mitigation measures are needed to increase the resilience of agriculture. Adaptation options include developing hardier crop varieties and more efficient irrigation techniques, while mitigation involves practices like minimum tillage and use of renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Innovation in agriculture, including new technologies and management practices, will be crucial to address the impacts of climate change on food security.
Presented by Jeremy Bird, Director General of IWMI, at the 1st High Level Scientific Consultation Panel and Ministerial Roundtable for the Adaptation of African Agriculture (AAA) to Climate Change initiative held in Marrakech, Morocco, on September 29 - 30, 2016.
This document discusses research into transforming Australia's peanut value chains to adapt to future climates. Researchers are studying how peanut production may shift locations due to climate threats like aflatoxin disease risks. They are exploring challenges like potential environmental and social impacts. Experiments and models are examining crop rotations, irrigation, fertilizer use, and pest/disease risks. Key factors for successful transformation include communities' exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Continued work is needed to fully understand transformation feasibility and impacts.
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Food safety research in low- and middle-income countriesILRI
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet at the first technical meeting to launch the Food Safety Working Group under the One Health Partnership framework, Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 September 2023
The Food Safety Working Group (FSWG) in Vietnam was created in 2015 at the request of the Deputy Prime Minister to address food safety issues in the country. It brings together government agencies, ministries, and development partners to facilitate joint policy dialogue and improve food safety. Over eight years of operations led by different organizations, the FSWG has contributed to various initiatives. However, it faces challenges of diminished government participation over time and dependence on active members. Going forward, it will strengthen its operations by integrating under Vietnam's One Health Partnership framework to better engage stakeholders and achieve policy impacts.
Reservoirs of pathogenic Leptospira species in UgandaILRI
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‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
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s
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The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
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bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
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Climate smart agriculture prioritization and policy making
1. Climate smart agriculture prioritization
and policy making
Full set of capacity building slides for customization to
specific training events
Developed by Sabrina Chesterman and Constance Neely, AICCRA consultants
Customized and delivered by Ivy Kinyua, Dorcas Jalongo Anyango and Stephanie Jacquet,
AICCRA team
GIZ Adaptation Academy capacity building virtual workshops for various countries
July – August 2022
3. SESSION OVERVIEW
Framing climate resilience
and the linkages to green
innovation
Synthesis of key findings
on value chain adaptation
potential
Wider policy and
intervention context
across scales
4. The first part of this session
will define climate resilient
development, green
innovation, climate-smart
agriculture and agri-food
systems and the linkages
between these key areas.
SESSION 1
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
7. TRIPLE CHALLENGE
1 Food security and nutrition: need for increased
quantity, quality and diversity of food,
everywhere and for everyone
2 Need to adapt to climate change
3 Need to contribute to climate change
mitigation
8. Climate-related stresses are “long-term trends
or pressures that undermine the stability of a
system and increase vulnerability within it”
Examples of climate-related stresses
include:
Decreased average annual rainfall
Delayed onset of the rainy season
Higher temperatures
Choularton et al. 2015 .
9. Climate-related shocks are “external short-term
deviations from long-term trends that have substantial
negative effects on people’s current state of well-being,
level of assets, livelihoods, safety or their ability to
withstand future shocks”
Shocks are normally acute events that either slowly
emerge (e.g., droughts) or rapidly emerge (e.g., flooding).
Examples of climate-related shocks include:
Heatwaves
Floods
El Niño events
Droughts
Wildfires
Livestock or crop
disease outbreak
10. SUPPLY CHAIN Increase in
rate of food
spoilage
resulting in a
loss of
income.
CONSUMPTION
Poor
consumer
experience.
IMPACTS OF
CLIMATE
CHANGE ON
THE FOOD
SYSTEM
Reduction in
water
available for
food
processing
plants.
Reduction
in product
quality in-
store.
Increase in
rate of food
spoilage and
wastage.
Greater need for
improved storage
and processing
facilities and costly
cold chain
Damage to
infrastructure
affecting delivery
of goods e.g.
damage to bridges
by flooding.
Volatile food
prices due to
a reduction in
productivity
and imports.
investments.
Food loss & waste Increase in
health risks due
to an increase in
prevalence of
pathogens and
pests.
Health risks
Transport
Cold chains
Water, energy availability
• Production & price
volatility
11. Other key stressors include:
Land degradation and
deforestation
Rural poverty
Lack of water
access/infrastructure
Population growth
Unequal
distribution/access to
natural resources
Gender inequality
12. KEY IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
21. Risk is not just about the climate
hazard, also about the socio-
ecological system – exposure to
the hazard and vulnerability of
the system to the effects of the
hazard
24. CLIMATE HAZARDS OF CONCERN
• Floods • Sand or dust
storms
• Droughts
Magnitude
Extent
• Tropical cyclones
and strong winds
• Landslides
• Sea level rise
• Temperature
changes
• Changes to
seasonal patterns
• Storm surges
• Extreme
temperatures
Rate of change
• Forest fires
Africa as a whole has the highest mortality-related vulnerability coefficients for droughts and very high coefficients for cyclones and volcanoes.
Drought and floods account for 80 per cent of loss of life and 70 per cent of economic losses linked to natural hazards (WB 2010).
31. SOCIAL VULNERABILITY
Example - social vulnerability to
floods
Neighbourhood
characteristics
Demographics
Health
Risk perception
Socio-economic
Coping capacity
Land Tenure
32. KEY TERMS
Sensitivity - theꢀdegreeꢀtoꢀwhichꢀaꢀsystemꢀisꢀaffected,ꢀ
eitherꢀadverselyꢀorꢀbeneficially,ꢀbyꢀclimateꢀvariabilityꢀ
orꢀchange.
Someꢀelementsꢀmayꢀbeꢀquiteꢀrobustꢀandꢀableꢀtoꢀcopeꢀ
with/absorbꢀquiteꢀlargeꢀchanges,ꢀothersꢀareꢀmore
sensitive and even a small change in climate can
have large impacts.
41. When we understand the
system that we are
working in, we have a
better sense of how drivers
of change impact different
dimensions of the system.
42. Food System–ꢀAꢀꢀfoodꢀsystemꢀisꢀaꢀcomplex
web of activities involvingꢀtheꢀproduction,ꢀ
processing,ꢀtransport,ꢀandꢀconsumptionꢀ–ꢀ
connecting people to their food.ꢀIssuesꢀ
concerningꢀtheꢀfoodꢀsystemꢀincludeꢀtheꢀ
governance and economics of food
production,ꢀits sustainability,ꢀtheꢀdegreeꢀ
toꢀwhichꢀweꢀwasteꢀfood,ꢀhowꢀfood
production affects the natural
environmentꢀandꢀtheꢀimpactꢀofꢀfoodꢀonꢀ
individualꢀandꢀpopulationꢀhealth.
53. WHAT IS CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE (CSA)?
Three pillars of CSA
Strengthen farmers’
capacity to adapt and
prosper in the face of
climate change
Reduce and/or
remove greenhouse
gas emissions
Sustainably increase
agricultural productivity
and incomes
54.
55. HY ADOPT CSA?
Addresses the Addresses the
relationship between
climate change and
agriculture
Addresses food
security,
misdistribution
and malnutrition
relationship between
agriculture and
poverty
Agricultural growth
provides an effective and
equitable means for
reducing poverty and
increasing food security
CSA reduces the risk of
climate change to agriculture
as well as the contribution of
agriculture to climate change
CSA improves food
security for poor and
marginalised groups as
well as reduces food
waste.
56. WHY ADOPT
CSA?
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
• Unsustainable agricultural
practices disrupt ecosystem
functioning and associated
goods and services delivery
• This has a cost to farmers and
other natural resource users
• CSA can rehabilitate and
protect ecosystem services,
enable sustainable production,
and improve food security
57. KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF CSA
Multiple entry
points at
different levels
Maintains
ecosystem
services
Engages women
and marginalised
groups
1 5
2 3 4 6
Addresses
climate
change
Integrates multiple
goals and manages
trade-offs
Is context
specific
58. VARIOUS LEVELS OF CSA
Landscape
System Level
Farm Level
Requires a
cross-sectoral
approach that
considers
synergies and
trade-offs
e.g. watershed management,
restoration of degraded rangelands
e.g. crop diversification, livelihood
diversification, new varieties
59. VARIOUS LEVELS OF CSA
Regional, national
global policies
Markets
System Level Stakeholder
engagement
involving all
value chain
actors and
decision
makers is key
e.g. climate change policies, long-
term climate resilient strategy
e.g. introducing climate-smart value
chains, sustainable value chains
60. CONTRIBUTION OF VALUE
CHAIN APPROACH TO CSA
Interventions can be designed
to deliver mitigation benefits at
multiple levels within the value
chain e.g. input, logistics,
Interventions that achieve
poverty-alleviation goals are
beneficial to climate change
adaptation as they build farmers’
assets and institutional linkages.
transport, and post-harvest.
Interventions focused on storage
and market access reduce post-
harvest losses, improve productivity
and increase farmers’ incomes.
61. CSA SMARTNESS
Technologies and practices promoted for
climate change adaptation and mitigation
are categorised into different ‘smartness
criteria’:
Weather and knowledge-smart:
enerating and disseminating weather and
meteorological information to farmers assists
hem in making informed decisions – use of
technology and media
Water-smart:
Technologies and practices which minimise
yield losses due to extreme weather
conditions – e.g. rainwater harvesting and
storage, drip irrigation, drainage
management, cover crops, flood/drought
tolerant varieties
62. CSA SMARTNESS
Nutrient/carbon-smart:
Reduce GHG emissions – e.g. soil
nutrition management using
organic fertiliser, intercropping,
residue retention, manure
management, zero/minimum
illage
Institution/market-
smart:
Institutional
strengthening to assist
farmers in accessing
resources, information
and markets as well as to
address gender inequality
– e.g. inter-sectoral
linkages, capacity
building, financial
services, market
Seed/breed-smart:
High quality seeds of locally
dapted varieties and improved
livestock breeds are key to
enhanced productivity – e.g.
drought/disease/flood tolerant
crop varieties, heat tolerant
livestock breeds, pest and disease
resistant cultivars, nutrient
efficient cultivars
information
dissemination
63. CSA SMARTNESS
All climate-smart options
ultimately enhance resilience
to climate change and
contribute to food security
and development goals
66. CSA IS CONTEXT SPECIFIC
CSA technologies and practices are site-specific
Adopting CSA at the field-level may be influenced
by institutional mechanisms, landscape
governance, resource tenure, economic, social,
ecological and climate conditions
A diversity of CSA options are developed for
various contexts, across scales, and for socially
differentiated groups (i.e. gender, age)
67. What is an example of a climate smart
practice?
68. CSA PRACTICES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Practices - the application of a
method e.g. precision farming,
intercropping, mulching
Technologies
- new materials used e.g.
improved seeds, efficient irrigation
equipment, slow-release fertilisers
69. TYPES OF CSA PRACTICES
Forestry
Soil management
Crop management
Water management
Livestock management
Fisheries and aquaculture
Energy management
70. SOIL MANAGEMENT
Soil management principles for climate change adaptation and
mitigation and enhancing resilience
Enhance soil
organic
matter for
soil carbon
sequestration
Improve soil
structure
with organic
matter
Boost
nutrient
management
Improve
soil water
storage
Control
soil
erosion
72. CROP MANAGEMENT
Cultivate a wide
range of species
and varieties in
associations,
rotations and
sequences
Maintain soil
health to
enhance soil-
related
ecosystem
services and
crop nutrition
Sustainable crop
production can be
Adopt
integrated
management
of pests,
diseases and
weeds
Use high quality
seeds and
planting
materials and
well adapted,
high-yielding
varieties
achieved through good
farming practices that are
based on improving
efficiencies and managing
biological processes
Manage
water
efficiently
74. WATER MANAGEMENT
• Given the fundamental role of water in
agriculture, the scope of water
management is wide-ranging and complex
• Rain-fed agricultural systems – e.g.
water harvesting and storage, soil
management practices to retain water
• Irrigated agricultural systems – e.g.
water conveyance and application system
types, irrigation scheduling
75. WATER MANAGEMENT
Examples of climate-smart water management options at different scales
Options Field level Irrigation scheme Landscape level
(watershed/river basin)
On-farm water storage: water harvesting
Modernisation of irrigation infrastructure
Enhancing soil moisture retention capacity
X
X
X
X
Alternate wet and dry rice production system X
Integrated water resources management X
X
Riparian habitat restoration or creation in
rivers
Supplementary irrigation X X
76. LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT
Climate-smart livestock practices:
• Feed management
• Efficient management of manure
• Increasing livestock water productivity
• Reducing heat stress
• Improved breeds
• Control of animal diseases
• Improved pasture management
77. FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE
Climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture
practices:
Site selection
Improved fish stock
Physical/biological structures for seal level
rise/storm surges
Weather warning systems
Water sharing systems
Plant mangrove and floodplain forests
Regulate fuel use of fishing fleets
Disease management
78. FORESTRY AND AGROFORESTRY
Agroforestry interventions allow farmers to
harvest tree products, supplement their
diets, and generate additional income
Agroforestry includes:
• Home gardens with multipurpose trees
and shrubs
• Intercropping of trees and crops
• Silvopasture
• Shelterbelts/ windbreaks/fodder banks/
live fences
79. ENERGY MANAGEMENT
The food sector accounts for around 30% of the world’s total energy consumption
The sector is highly dependent on fossil fuels, which threatens food security
EXAMPLES OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS ALONG
THE FOOD CHAIN
ON-FARM
• Adoption of renewable
energy
• Fuel efficient engines
• Precise water and
fertiliser applications
• No-till practices
OFF-FARM
• Adoption of renewable energy
• Energy efficient transport, lighting
and heating
• Insulation of cool storage
• Minimised food packaging
• Improved efficiency of cooking
devices
81. GENDER – CLIMATE CHANGE – AGRICULTURE NEXUS
Climate change
impacts
Gender inequality
implications
Crop failure Household food provision;
Increased work load
Household fuel provision;
Increased time to collect fuelwood
Fuel shortage
Water scarcity Household water provision; Water
contamination; Increased time to
collect water
82. GENDER – CLIMATE CHANGE – AGRICULTURE NEXUS
Climate change
impacts
Gender inequality
implications
Natural disasters Women have a higher incidence of mortality
Lack of access to health care; Increased
burden as women provide care
Disease
Forced migration increases women’s
vulnerability
Displacement
Conflict
Loss of lives and livelihoods; Violence against
women
83. GENDER AND CSA
• Gender productivity gaps exist in agriculture
due to traditional gender-based discrimination,
women have fewer privileges, entitlements and
endowments
• Women face more challenges than men in
accessing, using and controlling productive
resources and services
This affects their vulnerability and adaptive
capacity to climate threats
• Closing the gender gap in agriculture would
reduce the number of hungry people by 100–150
million
• Climate change exacerbates the existing
barriers that women face
85. GENDER RESPONSIVE APPROACH TO CSA
Goal - to give women and men the same incentives and
opportunities to invest in or adopt climate-smart practices
Undertake gender analyses to assess:
Women’s and men’s control of assets such as land and water
Income
Labour and time to realise benefits
Access to information, credit and markets
Gender-related vulnerabilities to climate change
Understand causes of gender inequalities, social (including cultural) and
economic barriers, that can be used to inform solutions.
Such information is crucial for understanding the factors that influence the
adoption of CSA practices and technologies.
87. KEY TERMS
Agricultural value chain - the whole range of goods and services
necessary for an agricultural product to move from the farm to the
consumer
Green value chain - a value chain that promotes the sustainable use of
natural resources to mitigate adverse environmental impacts on the
landscape and generate positive results for nature and communities
Good agricultural practices (GAPs) – are a collection of principles to
apply to agricultural production and post-production processes,
resulting in safe and healthy food and non-food agricultural
products, while taking into account economic, social and
environmental sustainability
88. KEY TERMS
Green innovation centres (GICs) - are a Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) initiative to generate
employment, raise farmers’ income, and improve farmers’ education
and skills by funding training in good agricultural practices, water
management, post-harvest processing, and entrepreneurship
Green economy - a low carbon, resource efficient and socially
inclusive economy
Greening – is the transformation of a process or practice towards a
more sustainable and resilient outcome
89. WHAT IS GREEN INNOVATION IN
AGRICULTURE?
• Aꢀprocessꢀthatꢀcontributesꢀtoꢀ
theꢀdevelopment of new
agricultural practices and
technologies
• Aimꢀofꢀreducing climate
change and environmental
risks
91. WHY IS GREEN INNOVATION
IMPORTANT?
• Provides a strategy to achieve environmental
sustainability and economic profitability
• Sustainable competitive advantage
• Meets customer demand for environmental
protection
• Enables farmers to use technical, input- and
knowledge-based innovations to improve
productivity, income and climate resilience in the
long term
Innovations in agriculture and food security can:
• Increase smallholder farmers’ incomes
• Boost employment along value chains (target
women and youth)
• Improve regional food supply
92. KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IS KEY
“Whether technical or social, green innovation
requires the exchange of knowledge e.g.
through advisory services, education and
training courses”
93. CSA BUNDLING
Bundling addresses all
the farmers’
requirements by offering
a variety of CSA options
in a single basket, such
as modern technologies,
information services,
weather index insurance,
and market-related
information
Farmers have been
provided with
different CSA However, using
them in isolation
limits the
development of
holistic solutions
and minimises
benefits
This is a more
efficient
technologies,
practices, and services
to enhance their
adaptive capacity in
the face of climate
change
approach than
different entities
knocking on the
same farmer’s
door
94. CSA BUNDLING
CSA bundling involves the
integration of a diverse suite of
practices, technologies and
services to:
• Enhance farm outcomes through
optimisation
• Enhance complementarity
• Manage trade-offs
• Maximise the benefits to farmers
95. SESSION OVERVIEW
Framing climate resilience
and the linkages to green
innovation
Synthesis of key findings
on value chain adaptation
potential
Wider policy and
intervention context
across scales
96. This second session will give a
synthesis of key findings from
the analysis of country
SESSION 2
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
specific climate change risks
and potential of integrating
climate-smart adaptation into
value chains
100. AGRICULTURAL CONTEXT
Agriculture is the main economic
activity in Bungoma, Kakamega,
Siaya, and Nyandarua counties
Low agricultural productivity due
to:
• Poor farming practices -
degraded natural resources
and low soil fertility
• Employing more than half
of the population in each
High poverty levels • Sub-optimal use of inputs
• Around a third of the
population in each county is
classified as poor
• Overreliance on rainfed
agriculture
Weak land tenure
Agricultural production is
dominated by small-scale
farmers
• >60% of farmers in Bungoma,
Kakamega, and Siaya counties
lack deeds to their farms
Climate change adversely
affects: • Cultural norms restrict
women’s access to land
• Crop and livestock
production and productivity
• Transport networks –
hindering access to inputs
and markets
Need for land reform and
enforcement of existing land
policies
101. FOCAL VALUE CHAINS
Sweet potato and dairy
• Important for the
Kenyan economy and
for food security
• Sweet potato – for both
human consumption
and livestock feed,
current deficit in
production
• Milk accounts for 8% of
the country’s GDP
104. CHATBOX
Are you in agreement with the
information presented in terms of
capturing the context and
livelihoods?
(yes, and… or no, because…)
105. POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMS ON
CLIMATE CHANGE
National and local-level government are aware of the adverse effects of climate change
• Policies and strategies have been developed to address the effects of climate change on
agricultural productivity
Key focus on youth and gender inclusion
Relevant policies and strategies include:
National Root and Tubers Crop Development Strategy (2019-2022) – to enhance adoption of
improved varieties and strengthen market linkages
Kenya Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategy (2017-2026) – to improve climate change adaptation
and resilience
Agricultural Sector Transformation and Growth Strategy (ASTGS) (2019-2029) - for a hunger and
food insecurity-free country
Agricultural Sector Development Support Programme (ASDSP) Phase II – to promote sustainable
value chains for improved income and food security
106. POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMS ON
CLIMATE CHANGE
• County governments have developed policies and strategies aimed
at enhancing agricultural productivity through individual County
Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) 2018-2022
Implementation of the policies and strategies is impacted by:
Inadequate funds
Misappropriation of funds
Poor monitoring and evaluation
Insufficient enforcement
Need for:
Institutional capacity enhancement
Effective planning
Reduced bureaucracy
107. GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES
AND CAPACITY
• Governmental ministries overseeing the agricultural sector and climate change mitigation and
adaptation efforts include:
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries (MoALF)
Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation
Ministry of Lands
Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD)
Kenya Forest Service (KFS)
Kenya Forest Research Institute (KEFRI)
National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA)
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
Kenya Dairy Board (KDB)
Department of Cooperatives and Marketing
108. GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES
AND CAPACITY
State institutions have regional offices in most counties
County governments lack guidelines for enforcing some of the policies and programs
There a several NGOs; faith, community, and farmer-based organizations; and research institutions
working in the sector, some include:
GIZ
Technoserve
Kenya Red Cross
Self Help Africa (SHA)
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
• International Potato Centre (CIP)
Many of the organizations engage in participatory planning by partnering with local groups
Barriers to successful program implementation include:
Institutions working in isolation
Lack of technical, financial and human resource capacity
110. CLIMATE RISK AND VULNERABILITY
All four counties are at risk of: The climate hazards will:
Reduce agricultural productivity
• Limit the livelihoods of value chain actors
• Lead to an increase in food prices
Moisture
Stress
Erratic
rainfall
Droughts
Need to enhance coping
strategies across the value
chains
Nyandarua is also
susceptible to flash flooding
Farmers said they had experienced climate change over the years,
particularly rainfall variation and drought
• Their perceptions aligned with climate modelling
111. CLIMATE RISK AND VULNERABILITY
Key climate hazards affecting the value
chains include:
Bungoma, Kakamega, and Siaya counties
will remain highly suited to sweet potato
production in the future
Sweet potato– drought and
flooding
Drought and water scarcity negatively
affects milk production:
Milk - drought and extreme rainfall
• Low availability of feed
• Increase in feed prices
• Reduced milk production and
associated income
Excessive rainfall presents both risks
and opportunities to milk production:
Increased fodder availability
Increased incidence of disease
Damage to transport networks
112. CHANGES IN SUITABILITY OF PRODUCTION ZONES
SWEET POTATO
Suitability change of sweet
potato production in Bungoma,
Kakamega, Siaya, and
Nyandarua Counties, Kenya
113. ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
AND VARIABILITY
Farmers’ current coping strategies for milk
production include:
Use of local bulls for breeding
Use of traditional medicine to treat animals
Water harvesting
Soil and water conservation
Farmers’ current coping strategies for sweet
potato production include:
Diversifying production, crop rotation
Replanting after crop failure
Reliance on informal sweet potato vines during
planting
Sale of roots at the farm gate
Simple value addition
Soil and water conservation
114. ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
AND VARIABILITY
Best-ranked adaptation strategies according to experts included:
• Milk - storage of hay and silage, use of good agricultural practices (GAP), and
commercial forage production
• Sweet potato - adoption of drought-resistant varieties, GAP, early warning systems
Cost-benefit analysis of the adoption of drought-resistant varieties and GAP in
sweet potato production found:
Drought-resistant sweet potato
Requires 6% higher capital
Improves yields by 200%
GAPs
Require significantly higher
capital for adoption
Improve yields by 126%
Costs associated with these innovations may restrict adoption by smallholder
farmers
115. PROMISING ADAPTATION STRATEGIES
VALUE CHAIN - Milk
Extreme
Rainfall
HAZARD Droughts
Commercial forage
production
Zero grazing
STRATEGIES
Strengthening dairy
cooperative and
farmer groups
Artificial insemination
services
New fodder varieties Storage of hay and
silage
• Storage of hay and
silage • New fodder varieties
Good husbandry
practices
• Good husbandry
practices
Strengthened dairy
cooperatives
Early warning
information
116. PROMISING ADAPTATION STRATEGIES
VALUE CHAIN – Sweet Potato
HAZARD Floods
Drought
Good agricultural
practices
Good agricultural
practices
STRATEGIES
Solar irrigation Early warning
systems
Drought-tolerant
varieties Improved market
linkages
117. SYNTHESIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Projections indicate drought, floods, and the intensity of rainfall will continue to affect crop and
livestock production in the four counties
Farmers are particularly vulnerable to climate change due to:
• Low use and high cost of inputs
• Sub-optimal use of inputs
• Poor road connectivity
• Poor information asymmetry
Farmers are making efforts to enhance their resilience by adopting climate-smart practices
Adoption of good GAPs and drought resistant varieties of sweet potatoes offer promising and profitable
adaptation strategies
• Need to upscale adoption of these innovations
118. SYNTHESIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
County-level governments need to be involved to provide basic services and improve existing
infrastructure
Need to improve:
Capacity of extension workers and veterinary care providers
Access to water, electricity, and road networks
County governments must collaborate with national government, NGOs, research institutes and
private organisations
Several federal policies offer general support for climate-smart initiatives, such as:
Climate- Smart Agriculture Strategy
Agricultural Sector Development Strategy
Agricultural Sector Development Support Programme
County Integrated Development Plan
119. SYNTHESIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Barriers to the implementation of climate change programming in Kenya include:
• Some institutions implement projects in isolation
• Need for improved coordination and cooperation among government, international, and private institutions
• Some organizations need improved technical, financial, and human resource capacity
• Local governments need guidelines and an overall implementation framework
• Other barriers include:
Weak infrastructure
Lack of storage facilities
Difficulty procuring clean seeds and vines
Land insecurity
Price fluctuations
Uncontrolled packing standards
Limited access to financial resources
• Cultural norms that restrict women farmers are a major hindrance in scaling climate-smart adaptation
122. BUNDLING IN THE DAIRY VALUE CHAIN
IN KENYA
What are Climate Smart
Agriculture practices and services
that could be bundled to enhance
adaptation in the DAIRY Value
Chain?
123. BUNDLING PRACTICES AND SERVICES IN THE DAIRY
VALUE CHAIN KENYA (EXAMPLES)
Practices
• Storage of hay and silage
• Good animal husbandry practices
• Strengthened dairy cooperatives
• Value chain actor networking
Services
• Farmer access to climate information services
• Access to financial services
• Insurance services
124. SESSION OVERVIEW
Framing climate resilience
and the linkages to green
innovation
Synthesis of key findings
on value chain adaptation
potential
Wider policy and
intervention context
across scales
125. The last part of the session
will focus on the policy context
across scales and introduce a
deeper understanding of
future thinking, foresight and
long-term transformative
planning
SESSION 3 LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
126. In 2015, countries committed to three international agreements that are shaping the global
response to climate change, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development
127. UNFCCC: WHAT IS IT?
TheꢀUNFCCCꢀenteredꢀintoꢀforceꢀonꢀ21ꢀMarchꢀ1994.ꢀToday,ꢀtheꢀ197ꢀ
countriesꢀthatꢀhaveꢀratifiedꢀtheꢀConventionꢀareꢀcalledꢀPartiesꢀtoꢀtheꢀ
Convention.
Preventingꢀ“dangerous”ꢀhuman interference with the climate system isꢀ
theꢀultimateꢀaimꢀofꢀtheꢀUNFCCC.
128. KEY INSTITUTIONS AND COOPERATIVE BODIES
Conference of Partiesꢀ
197ꢀsignatoryꢀCountries)ꢀwithꢀCMPꢀforꢀKyotoꢀProtocolꢀandꢀCMAꢀforꢀParisꢀ
Agreement.
Entities entrusted with operations of financial
mechanisms
(GreenꢀClimateꢀFund,ꢀGlobalꢀEnvironmentꢀFacility)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
Scientificꢀbody.ꢀItꢀreviewsꢀandꢀassesses,ꢀatꢀregularꢀintervals,ꢀtheꢀ
mostꢀrecentꢀscientific,ꢀtechnicalꢀandꢀsocioeconomicꢀinformationꢀ
producedꢀworldwide,ꢀrelevantꢀtoꢀtheꢀunderstandingꢀofꢀclimateꢀ
change.
131. RATIONALE FOR LONG-TERM PLANNING: PARIS AGREEMENT
Article Paragraph Language
Establishes a temperature goal of well below 2oC to 1.5oC (mitigation)
Establishes a link between adaptation, resilience and mitigation
Making finance flows consistent with low emission and climate resilient development
2 1
Introduces the concept of net zero emissions (carbon neutrality) as advanced in the IPCC Special Report on 1.5oC
(2050)
4
4
1
4
Developing countries encouraged to move over time towards economy-wide emission reductionnor limitation
targets
All Parties should strive to formulate and communicate long term low GHG development strategies, mindful of
Article 2
4
7
19
1
Establishes the global goal on adaptation (GCA): enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, and reducing
vulnerability to climate change, with a view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring an adequate
adaptation response in the context of the temperature goal referred to in Article 2.
Recognizes that adaptation is a global challenge faced by all with local, subnational, national, regional and
international dimensions, and that is a key component of and makes a contribution to the long-term global
response to climate change to protect people, livelihoods and ecosystems, taking into account the urgent and
immediate needs of those developing country Parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate
change.
7 2
132. LONG TERM PLANNING INSTRUMENTS ARE URGENT AND
NEED TO BE MORE AMBITIOUS
133. TO ACHIEVE THESE TEMPERATURE TARGETS, THE
PARIS AGREEMENT SETS OUT POLICY INSTRUMENTS
THAT COUNTRIES NEED TO DEVELOP FOR LONG-TERM
PLANNING
134. Policy planning
instruments
• Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDCs) – 2030
• Long-term Strategies (LTS)/ Long-term
Low Emissions Development
Strategies/National decarbonisation plan
– 2050
• Other climate policy instruments
(National Mitigation Action Plans,
National Adaptation Plans, climate bills
etc).
138. BASED ON GOOD PRACTICE ELSEWHERE, NDCS CAN BE
IMPROVED TO REFLECT AFRICA’S INTERESTS.
NDC revision
process is an
opportunity to
learn from others –
tailoring to
different national
priorities and
contexts.
139. CHATBOX
What has been your involvement in the
the development of any of the policies
or strategies in your country?
140.
141. KORONIVIA JOINT WORK ON AGRICULTURE (KJWA)
Establishedꢀ
byꢀ
theꢀ
COPꢀ
atꢀ
itsꢀ
23rd sessionꢀ
inꢀ
2017.ꢀ
The Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) is a landmark decision under the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that recognizes
the unique potential of agriculture in tackling climate change (FAO).
Through this decision the COP requested the SBSTA and SBI to jointly address issues
related to agriculture, including through workshops and expert meetings, working
with constituted bodies under the Convention and taking into consideration the
vulnerabilities of agriculture to climate change and approaches to addressing food
security.
142. THE KJWA IS THE ONLY PROGRAMME TO FOCUS ON
AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY UNDER UNFCCC
• By mainstreaming agriculture into UNFCCC processes, the KJWA can drive
transformation in agricultural and food systems, and address the synergies and
trade-offs between adaptation, mitigation and agricultural productivity.
• It can provide concrete solutions to the climate and environmental challenges we
are facing today, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The KJWA complements country Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs),
National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
under the Paris Agreement, while contributing to the overall achievement of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
143. Elements of work include:
• Approaches to assess adaptation, adaptation co-benefits and resilience
• Improved soil carbon, soil health and soil fertility under crop- and grass-land and
integrated systems and water management
• Improved nutrient use and manure management towards sustainable and resilient
agricultural systems
• Improved livestock management systems
• Socio-economic and food security dimensions of climate change in the agricultural
sector
146. What is your experience with the Foresight Methodology?
1.It is a new concept to me
2.I have seen a presentation or attended a webinar
3.I have participated in a training / workshop / course
4.I have facilitated a foresight process
148. Future literacy
Question 1: The future is (choose
which apply): - Multiple choice
Question 2: How comfortable
are you thinking about the
future? - Single choice
1. Uncertain
2. unpredictable
3. foreseeable
4. fixed
1. Very comfortable
2. Comfortable
3. a little uncomfortable,
4. very uncomfortable
5. certain
6. controllable
7. navigable
Question 3: Thinking about the future for me is:
- Single choice
1. Too uncertain,
2. Limited but a bit abstract,
3. Comfortable on certain topics but not others,
4. I’m Confident to vision the future
149. Question 4: When you are planning for your
personal future what year do you consider
the future? - Single choice
Question 5: When you are planning for the future
through your work what timeframe do you work
with? - Single choice
1. 2022
2. 2023
3. 2025
4. 2030
5. 2040
1. 1 year
2. 3 years
3. 5 years
4. 10 years
5. more
Question 6: What processes or tools do you use for
planning for the future? - Multiple choice
5. Strategic planning
1. Personal intuition
2. Personal experiences
3. Impact pathways
4. Log frames
6. Scenarios
7. Other
151. Out of your silo
Everyone is creative
Any idea is valid
A RADICALLY
CURIOUS MIND
Jim Dator
A neutral viewpoint
Don’t hold onto old ideas
that are no longer needed
152. CHARACTERISTICS OF FUTURE THINKERS
Justifiablyꢀterrifiedꢀandꢀdetermined,ꢀandꢀstubbornlyꢀoptimistic
Maintainsꢀaꢀsolidꢀvisionꢀandꢀhasꢀcapacityꢀtoꢀshiftꢀtheꢀstoryline/narrativeꢀtoꢀoneꢀofꢀpurposefulꢀsharedꢀmeaning
Thinksꢀinꢀsystemsꢀandꢀseesꢀtheꢀlargerꢀpicture
Wantsꢀanꢀaccurateꢀversionꢀofꢀrealityꢀandꢀtakesꢀresponsibilityꢀforꢀone’sꢀdestiny
Openꢀtoꢀpossibilitiesꢀandꢀcurious,ꢀintriguedꢀwithꢀcontradictions
Willingꢀtoꢀtestꢀindividualꢀbeliefsꢀandꢀcutꢀthroughꢀindividualꢀbiases,ꢀalwaysꢀreadyꢀtoꢀaskꢀtheꢀnextꢀquestion
Enjoysꢀinteractingꢀwithꢀnewꢀdataꢀandꢀꢀinformation,ꢀbalancingꢀtheꢀcreativeꢀandꢀanalytical
Groundedꢀ-ꢀtheirꢀselfꢀworthꢀisꢀnotꢀtiedꢀtoꢀhowꢀrightꢀorꢀwrongꢀtheyꢀare
Julia Galef, Scout Mindset, 2021 Tom Rivett Carnac, Ted Radio Wisdom Times, 8 traits of a Forward Thinker
163. WHAT SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING?
1. Think back to what you were expecting
you would be doing in the year 2020
before the Covid-19 pandemic started.
In the chat box – can you
share with us some plans
you originally had for
2020
164. WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN?
2. Now think to late 2022, describe what you
think your working environment will look like
or your personal activities.
In the chat box
please give us an
example
165. WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO?
3. What would you have done differently – think back
to February 2020 - if you had known that Covid-19
was coming – what would you have changed in how
you planned 2020-2022.
n the chat box can you
give us an example from
work or your personal
life
166. What seems to be happening?
What might happen?
What do we need to do?
167. KEY
TERMS
Trend - isꢀaꢀ“general Megatrend - isꢀaꢀlong-termꢀchangeꢀ
thatꢀaffectsꢀgovernments,ꢀsocietiesꢀ
andꢀeconomiesꢀpermanentlyꢀoverꢀaꢀ
longꢀperiodꢀofꢀtime. e.g. growing
youth population population across
African continent
tendency” orꢀdirectionꢀofꢀ
aꢀmovement/changeꢀoverꢀ
timeꢀe.g Increasing erratic
seasonal rainfall patterns
169. CATEGORIES FOR UNDERSTANDING TRENDS
S T E E P
Ecological /
Environmental
Social Technological Economic Political
170. EXAMPLE OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL/ECOLOGICAL TREND
DROUGHT - SADC EXAMPLE
171. Looking across the categories below, what are some
trends that are currently affecting or may affect planning
for climate resilience or climate smart agriculture?
CATEGORIES FOR UNDERSTANDING TRENDS
S T E E P
Ecological /
Environmental
Social Technological Economic Political
172. What seems to be happening?
What might happen?
What do we need to do?
173. UNCERTAINTY IN LONG TERM PLANNING
Developing long term planning is challenging due to:
• Theꢀtimeꢀframeꢀthatꢀextendsꢀacrossꢀmultipleꢀdecades;ꢀandꢀ
• Theꢀneedꢀtoꢀdealꢀwithꢀcomplexꢀsocioeconomicꢀandꢀbiophysicalꢀsystems.
174. UNCERTAINTY IN LONG TERM PLANNING
Long term planning is subject to great uncertainty, such as:
• Futureꢀclimateꢀimpacts;
• Technologicalꢀinnovationꢀandꢀdeployment;ꢀ
• Policyꢀdevelopmentꢀandꢀimplementation
• Availabilityꢀofꢀlarge-scaleꢀsolutions;ꢀandꢀ
• Reliabilityꢀofꢀcurrentꢀdata,ꢀmodelsꢀandꢀskillsꢀtoꢀinterpretꢀevidenceꢀ
176. When thinking about what
might happen in terms of
scenarios, we look closely
at drivers of change and
degrees of uncertainty.
177. Drivers –ꢀareꢀfactors, issues or trends that cause
changeꢀtherebyꢀaffectingꢀorꢀshapingꢀtheꢀfuture
Impactꢀ-ꢀrefersꢀtoꢀtheꢀpotential scale of impacts ofꢀtheꢀ
driver
Uncertainty –refersꢀtoꢀhow much or how clear we are
on how a driver will emerge or play out in the future.ꢀ
Highꢀuncertaintyꢀcanꢀmeanꢀhavingꢀlittleꢀknowledgeꢀofꢀhowꢀ
somethingꢀmayꢀpanꢀout.ꢀ
Critical uncertainties -ꢀareꢀdrivers that are both high
impact and highly uncertain.
178. What driver do you
hink will be highly
mpactful in your
country in the next 10
years?
179. What seems to be happening?
What might happen?
What do we need to do?
180. Once we have considered
what might happen, we want
to consider transformative
actions are needed to
achieve the future we prefer.
182. “Today’sꢀinterimꢀreportꢀfromꢀ
theꢀUNFCCCꢀisꢀaꢀredꢀalertꢀforꢀ
ourꢀplanet.ꢀItꢀshowsꢀ
governments are nowhere
close to the level of
ambition needed to limit
climate change to 1.5
degrees andꢀmeetꢀtheꢀgoalsꢀ
ofꢀtheꢀParisꢀAgreement”ꢀ
“UNꢀClimateꢀPanelꢀtellsꢀusꢀweꢀ
haveꢀ10 years left to begin a
radical transformation of this
civilizationꢀtoꢀmoveꢀquicklyꢀtoꢀ
aꢀzeroꢀemissionsꢀsociety…we
need a new economic vision
and a game plan ….weꢀareꢀ
movingꢀꢀfromꢀtheꢀageꢀofꢀ
progress to the age of
resilience”
–ꢀSecretary-GeneralꢀAntónioꢀGuteresꢀ
onꢀtheꢀreportꢀfindingsꢀ(Februaryꢀ
2021)
–ꢀJeremyꢀRifkin
183. KEY
TERMS
Transformational
change – includes major
long-term changes in the
way we operate and may
shift us between or into
new ‘systems’ and
Incremental change -
refers to change that occurs
slowly and without
necessarily modifying the
essence of social structures
or organizational practices.
processes.
184. We often build our plans and strategies based on actions that
result in incremental change – when we need actions that are
transformative and suitable for the future that is coming
185. TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE
The future that is coming often requires significant change
Transformative change requires sometimes radically new interventions,
policies and partnerships
It requires disruptive technology which can be defined as any innovation
that dramatically changes the way consumers, businesses and industries
operate
Moves us beyond incremental change and results in major long-term
changes in the way systems operate
186. WHAT IS A TRANSFORMATION?
“An agriculture and food systems
transformation is a significant
redistribution—by at least a third—of land,
labour and capital, and/ or outputs and
outcomes (e.g. types and amounts of
production and consumption of goods and
services) within a timeframe of a decade”
187. WHAT MIGHT TRANSFORM?
Transformational Shifts
• Markets to networks
• Transactions to Flows
• Ownership to Access
• Sellers and Buyers in negotiation
- to producers and users in networks
• Gross Domestic Product to Quality of Life
• Productivity to Regenerativity
188. CHATBOX
Based on what you know about climate
smart agriculture, can you think of an
example of “transformative” intervention
or partnership?
189. REVIEW OF
SESSION
Climate resilient development, climate-
smart agriculture, agri-food systems,
green innovation
Bundling services and practices
National Level Context on Adaptation
to Climate Change
Nested Policy Context – LTSs and NDCs
Foresight as a methodology to
integrate uncertainty into planning
190. What is your take home message from this
session?