The Learning Route on Natural Resource Management and Climate Change Adaptation best practices, the experience in Kenya; took place between the 6-13 July 2014 in several counties in Kenya. The objective of this learning route is to scale up through peer to peer learning the Kenyan best multi stakeholders' strategies, tools and practices to fight environmental degradation and to adapt to climate change with the aim of improving the livelihoods of people living in affected communities. The learning Route has been developed by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) CARE (relief agency) in Kenya and the Cgiar Research Program on Climate Change & Food Security, in partnership with Procasur Africa. Here we have an overview of the all the second experience of the three host case studies that were visited: Case 2: the CCAFS and dryland Agriculture site in Wote (Makueni)

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PHILIP KIMELI
Research Assistant, CCAFS East
Africa
Climate Change,
Agriculture and
Food Security
(CCAFS)

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CCAFS objectives
1.Identify and develop pro-
poor adaptation and
mitigation practices,
technologies and policies
for agriculture and food
systems.
2.Support the inclusion of
agricultural issues in climate
change policies, and of
climate issues in
agricultural policies, at all
levels (Global, National, Sub-
National.

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Adapting Agriculture to
Climate Variability and Change
Technologies, practices, partnerships and
policies for:
1. Adaptation to Progressive Climate
Change
2. Adaptation through Managing
Climate Risk
3. Pro-poor Climate Change Mitigation
Improved
Environmental
Health
Improved
Rural
Livelihoods
Improved
Food
Security
Enhanced adaptive capacity
in agricultural, natural
resource management, and
food systems
4. Integration for Decision Making
• Linking Knowledge with Action
• Assembling Data and Tools for Analysis
and Planning
• Refining Frameworks for Policy Analysis
The CCAFS framework

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Latin America
West Africa
East
Africa
South
Asia
Southeast
Asia
Where CCAFS Works

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• Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and
Tanzania
• Integrating CCAFS research
across local, national and
regional scales
• Six sites across the 4
countries:
• Borana (ET)
• Wote and Nyando (KE)
• Hoima and Rakai (UG)
• Lushoto (TZ)
• Site selection based farming
systems, risk profile, and
represent areas that are
becoming both drier or wetter.
CCAFS East Africa

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Participatory Action Research (PAR) Process
• Evaluating a
portfolio of
promising climate
change adaptation,
mitigation and risk
management
options in
collaboration with a
wide range of
partners
Farmers in Lushoto tilling the land
A boy feeds the shoats in Nyando
Research in Baseline Sites

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Why Participatory Approach?
• Recognizes community as a unit of identity
• Builds on strengths and resources within the community
• Facilitates collaborative partnerships in all phases of the
research
• Integrates knowledge and action for mutual benefit of all
partners
• Promotes a co-learning and empowering process that
attends to social inequalities
• Involves a cyclical and iterative process
• Disseminates findings and knowledge gained to all
partners
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Uganda Sites
Gender study (T4.1): Enhancing adaptive
capacity of men and women crop-livestock
farmers to climate change in Rakai – NaLIRRI
Participatory evaluation of farmer preferred
drought tolerant bean vars (red, red mottled
and yellow) – CIAT-PABRA
• Inception workshop
• Dissemination of CIAT farmer manuals
• Bean trials planted and evaluated
Empowering communities to use scientific climate and weather information
integrated with indigenous knowledge to build resilient livelihoods
• Characterization of climate variables in Hoima and Rakai Learning sites
AFSIS-CCAFS Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) survey in Hoima
6 participants from NARES and farmers organizations trained in LDSF method

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Tanzania Baseline Site
Adaptation
• On-farm evaluation of irish and sweet potatoes, and
cassava for yield and adaptability - HORTI
• Evaluation of beans - yield, disease resistance and
adaptability to highland zone – SARI
• Crop diversification and intensification – maize
• Promoting integration of indigenous knowledge (IK)
and scientific seasonal forecasting - SUA and TMA
• Local indicators for predicting weather/climate:
insects, flowering of peaches and plums,
appearance of swams of pirates, butterflies, frogs,
ants and grasshopers
• Seasonal MAM and OND from May 2012 till date
in forecasts using IK and TMA identical
Agro-forestry to increase on-farm tree cover – 10%
target – TAFORI
Risk management
Mitigation
• IK weather forecasting teams formed in 3 villages reflecting diversity in zones

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Ethiopia Baseline Site
Risk Management
Social innovation and rangeland enclosure to adapt
to a changing climate – MARIL
 Capacity building of savings and credit Collective
Action Groups
• Mobilizing savings, book keeping & loan
management
 Rangeland enclosure management and
innovation – improve harvesting &
• Document utilization & management
• Technical support - proper harvesting,
pasture storage, reseeding, water
harvesting & optimization of grazing
intensity
Planning for stakeholder consultations for other
PAR activities in Borana:
E.g. Drought resistant/early maturing crops
Partners: Oromia Agricultural Research Institute,
MARIL

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Adaptation (Nyando)
• Evaluation of sorghum for yield, adaptability to
low soil moisture, and farmer preference in
collaboration with - KARI Kibos
• Evaluation of maize for yield, adaptability to low
soil moisture
• Introduction of cassava for adaptability – KARI
vars from Teso & Siaya
• Diversification
Improved sheep and goats – ILRI
Horticulture – fruits (water melon and butter nuts) and vegetables (tomatoes &
onions) in Nyando
• Agro-forestry to increase on-farm tree cover –
10% target
Risk management (Nyando
Mitigation (Nyando)
Kenya Sites

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• Household baseline surveys
• Village baseline surveys
• Organizational baseline surveys
CCAFS Wote Site

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CCAFS Partners Activities
 Integration of grain legumes such as pigeon peas, cow peas and
sorghum for food security – MoA, KARI and ICRISAT
 CCAFS partnered with ICRISAT, MoA, KMD, IRI and KARI to test the
effectiveness of different methods of communicating downscaled
seasonal climate forecast information to assess its impact on
management and productivity of smallholder farms

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• CCAFS worked with KENFAP to
test the potential of local language
radio as a tool for motivating
dialogue and enhancing learning on
climate change and its impacts on
agriculture and food security in local
community settings.
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CCAFS Partners Activities

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• Stakeholder/partner workshop to evaluate the previous
activities as a feedback process and plan for the upcoming
seasonal activities
• Integration of CCAFS and its partner research activities to
the county government development policies
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Way Forward
• Capacity building and
empowerment of farmer
groups and women for
enhanced climate adaptation
practices uptake
• Scaling up the best bet
practices beyond the seven
villages

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1. How can farming communities (crop and livestock) in ASAL regions adapt to climate
change to ensure food security?
2. What are the benefits of on-farm soil and water conservation?
3. How can early warning systems and climate forecasts be used in rural communities and
how can we enable farmers to access the information?
4. What policy interventions exist or need to be developed to enable climate change
adaptation in the agricultural and livestock sectors in ASALs?
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Learning Opportunities

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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,
Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), East
Africa.
P.O Box 30709 – 00100 Nairobi, Kenya; Phone:
+254 20 422 3000 Fax: +254 20 422 3001
Email: ccafsea@cgiar.org; Website:
ccafs.cgiar.org/regions/east-africa
CGIARClimate @cgiarclimate_EA
Thank you!