CCAFS policy initiatives and research in Uganda and Kenya

1. Maren Radeny
Regional Program Coordinator, East Africa
Policy Initiatives and Research
in Uganda and Kenya d Policy

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

3. Test and scale up technologies and practices that are needed
to build adaptive capacity and food security, document
mitigation co-benefits of technologies & practices
Adaptation and food security policies largely at national level,
but also global level. Modelling, scenario assessment and
policy analysis will provide the information & tools for
decision-makers
Flagship 1:
Climate-smart
agricultural practices
Flagship 3:
Low-emissions
agricultural
development
Flagship 2:
Climate information
services and climate-
informed safety nets
Flagship 4:
Policies and
institutions for
climate-resilient food
systems
GHG measurement challenges in small-scale farming systems,
trade-offs and synergies amongst adaptation, food security
and mitigation, incentives for mitigation actions, policy
options in agriculture for climate change mitigation and low-
emissions development
Deliver improved farmer advisories, better management of
safety nets and enhanced design of the weather-indexed
insurance working closely with climate scientists,
meteorological services, and humanitarian agencies
CCAFS Flagships

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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 in East Africa

5. • EA exhibits spatial heterogeneity in
climate, topography, agro-ecosystems,
livelihoods, and environmental challenges
• High dependency on rain-fed agriculture
for rural livelihoods
• Cereal-based subsistence agriculture in
sub-humid & semi-arid zones, and
pastoralism in arid areas
Regional characteristics

6. • Climate variability and change presents
new challenges to smallholder farmers
• Climate related risks are becoming more
frequent, with greater intensity
• Increasing food insecurity – e.g. recent
drought in the Horn of Africa
Regional characteristics
In order to address these challenges, CCAFS and its partners
are working with policy makers at national level, and at local
level developing Climate Smart Villages (CSVs) across CCAFS
sites

7. CCAFS Portfolio in East Africa

8. Policy engagement in Uganda
• Engagement through AGN – Integrating agriculture into
UNFCCC negotiations
• In country workshops and face-to-face meetings
• Identification of research and policy gaps for climate-smart
agriculture – to set the pace for engagement with stakeholders
• Development of Climate Smart Agriculture Framework
Program (CSA-FP), with integration of CSA in the Intended
Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)
• Documenting the status of NAPA projects in Uganda

9. Policy engagement in Uganda
Policy Action for Climate Change Adaptation (PACCA)
Project – IITA
• Learning alliances – national platform linking scientific
community and policy actors
• Gender integration - Identification of gender gaps in policy
development and implementation across scales

10. Policy engagement in Kenya
Taking Forward Kenya’s NCCAP 2013-2017 - key science - policy
engagement process, culminating in the national validation
workshop – June 2015
• With support from CCAFS, ICRAF, CIFOR, ILRI and CIAT, Kenya
has developed a CSA-FP, CSA included in INDC
• A prioritization tool ‘targetCSA’ is
now available to support CSA
decision making in Kenya – ILRI,
CIFOR
• Series of joint side events
organized during UNFCCC SBSTA
& COPs
• Supporting development of
Kenya’s Dairy NAMA – ILRI,
UNIQUE Forest

11. • Participatory evaluation of common
bean vars for drought and disease
resilience traits through CIAT-
PABRA
‒ Close to 15 bean vars by 300 farmers
across 9 villages in Rakai and Hoima
‒ Local landraces, farmer vars, Uganda
officially released varieties and new
germplasm evaluated
• Soil and water management –
NARO in Hoima
Research in Uganda

12. • Climatic trends, risk perception and
coping strategies – Rakai & Hoima
(NARO, Makerere)
• Documentation of indigenous
knowledge (IK) in weather
forecasting
• Participatory evaluation and
promotion of improved cassava
and sweet potatoes
• Cassava (NASE-14) & sweet
potatoes (NASPOT-11 and
NASPOT-8)
• 650 households between 2013 and
2016
• New cassava variety is resistant to
Cassava Mosaic Virus and Brown
Streak Virus
Research in Uganda

13. • Promoting improved agroforestry
and land management with 120
farmers in Hoima
• Mangoes and mango fruit tree
demonstrations, orchards and
other tree species
• Establishment of community tree
nurseries and demonstrations
Research in Uganda

14. Research in Kenya
• Introduction of new crops -
pigeon peas, cowpeas, green
grams, sorghum, finger millet,
cassava
• Encourage use of farm yard
manure to compliment the
inorganic fertilizers
• Soil and water management
interventions - terraces

15. Research in Kenya
• Introduction of improved crop varieties - early maturing, with
faster growth rates, resistant to certain pests and diseases
• E.g. improved sorghum varieties - Serena, Seredo, KARI
Mtama1, KARI Mtama4
• Significant increase between 2011-2014 – in Nyando
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16. Research in Kenya
• Breed improvement & management for sheep and
goats – ILRI, World Neighbors
• Horticulture – fruit (water melon & butter nuts) and
vegetables (tomatoes & onions)
• Smart farms (greenhouse production, demonstration
farms, involving youth and women
• Testing the design &
communication of downscaled,
probabilistic seasonal forecasts
and their impacts on farmers’
management and livelihood
outcomes by ICRISAT (Wote)
and Maseno (Nyando)

17. For more information:
• Working paper: Climatic trends, risk perceptions and
coping strategies of smallholder farmers in rural
Uganda.
• Working paper: Participatory Evaluation of Common
Bean for Drought and Disease Resilience Traits in
Uganda
• Working Paper: Evidence and policy implications of
climate-smart agriculture in Kenya.
• Blog: Project takes action for climate-responsive
policies in East Africa
• Blog: Ready for take-off: East African countries
develop climate-smart agriculture frameworks
• Blog: Drought and pest epidemics among top
climate risks in rural Uganda
• Blog: Kenya integrates climate-smart agriculture into
its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution
• Media article: Science meets farming to reveal
Africa’s best bean

18. Thank you
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