This document discusses the economic impacts of climate change on food systems in Africa. It finds that climate extremes are the second leading cause of food insecurity in Africa, after conflict. Future warming is projected to reduce yields for staple crops across most of Africa. The food system is failing to provide food security. To build resilient food systems, countries are looking to mainstream climate risk and adaptation. The economic effects of climate change are substantial, with reductions in GDP projected for Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal by 2050. Climate-smart agriculture could help mitigate these economic impacts if widely adopted. However, significant investments are needed to equip land with soil/water conservation and improved seeds. Adaptation also requires building farmers'
The new book from CTA and Cgiar Research Program on Climate Change & Food Security, "Evidence of impact: Climate-smart agriculture in Africa", showcases many innovative climate-smart agriculture practices with the capacity to increase productivity and build resilience in Africa
The Brussels Development Briefing n. 59 on “Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat, CONCORD and IPES-FOOD was held on Wednesday 15 January 2020 (9h00-13h00) at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels.
The briefing brought various perspectives and experiences on agroecological systems to support agricultural transformation. Experts presented trends and prospects for agroecological approaches and what it implies for the future of the food systems. Successes and innovative models in agroecology in different parts of the world and the lessons learned for upscaling them were also discussed.
ICRISAT introduces an invigorated research structure (The research structure ...ICRISAT
A robust, more efficient research structure is part of the reorganization initiative at ICRISAT that aims at building a cohesive and interconnected body of work in agricultural research. The revitalized framework is expected to seamlessly integrate and deliver agricultural research outputs across the drylands of Asia and Africa. The strength of this framework is the deeply interlinked global and regional programs working towards common and interdependent goals.
The new book from CTA and Cgiar Research Program on Climate Change & Food Security, "Evidence of impact: Climate-smart agriculture in Africa", showcases many innovative climate-smart agriculture practices with the capacity to increase productivity and build resilience in Africa
The Brussels Development Briefing n. 59 on “Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat, CONCORD and IPES-FOOD was held on Wednesday 15 January 2020 (9h00-13h00) at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels.
The briefing brought various perspectives and experiences on agroecological systems to support agricultural transformation. Experts presented trends and prospects for agroecological approaches and what it implies for the future of the food systems. Successes and innovative models in agroecology in different parts of the world and the lessons learned for upscaling them were also discussed.
ICRISAT introduces an invigorated research structure (The research structure ...ICRISAT
A robust, more efficient research structure is part of the reorganization initiative at ICRISAT that aims at building a cohesive and interconnected body of work in agricultural research. The revitalized framework is expected to seamlessly integrate and deliver agricultural research outputs across the drylands of Asia and Africa. The strength of this framework is the deeply interlinked global and regional programs working towards common and interdependent goals.
#2021ReSAKSS - Plenary Session I – presentation by Dr. Eliane Ubalijoro, Executive Director, Sustainability in The Digital Age, Global Hub Director, Canada, Future
Earth, and Co-editor of the 2021 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR)
FAO-UNDP Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme (NAP-...UNDP Climate
The FAO-UNDP Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme (NAP-Ag) is a multi-year initiative funded by the Government of Germany. As a country driven process, it supports partner countries to identify and integrate climate adaptation measures for the agricultural sector into relevant national planning and budgeting processes. While the focus of the programme is mainly on the agricultural sectors, the results and process used are highly relevant in providing information to other sectors on how to integrate adaptation needs into national planning and budgeting. The Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme works with ministries of agriculture in Colombia, Gambia, Guatemala, Nepal, Kenya, the Philippines, Thailand, Uganda, Uruguay, Viet Nam and Zambia. The programme builds on prior adaptation work and focuses on national level processes with some regional activities. Available in Spanish and French.
Caroline Mwongera
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change & Food Systems
Global Launch Event
MAY 12, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EDT
DRM Webinar III: Benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in ...FAO
Over the past decade, economic damages resulting from natural hazards have amounted to USD 1.5 trillion caused by geophysical hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides, as well as hydro-meteorological hazards, including storms, floods, droughts and wild fires. Climate-related disasters, in particular, are increasing worldwide and expected to intensify with climate change. They disproportionately affect food insecure, poor people – over 75 percent of whom derive their livelihoods from agriculture. Agricultural livelihoods can only be protected from multiple hazards if adequate disaster risk reduction and management efforts are strengthened within and across sectors, anchored in the context-specific needs of local livelihoods systems.
This series of three webinars on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRR/M) in agriculture is organized to:
1. Discuss the new opportunities and pressing challenges in reducing and managing disaster risk in agriculture;
2. Learn and share experiences about disaster risk reduction and management good practices based on concrete examples from the field; discuss how to create evidence and conditions for upscaling of good practices; and
3. Exchange experiences and knowledge with partners around resilience to natural hazards and climate-related disasters.
This webinar covered:
• measuring the benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in agriculture – approaches, methods and findings from FAO’s preliminary study;
• a case study from Uganda on how the agricultural practices for disaster risk reduction were implemented and monitored at farm level; and
• perspective from the Philippines on the challenges and opportunities to upscale the agriculture good practices for disaster risk reduction at national level.
John Ulimwengu
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
Africa Discussion of IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report Climate Change & Food Systems
IFPRI Africa Regional Office
Regional livestock modeling for climate change adaptation and mitigation in S...ILRI
Presentation by Dolapo Enahoro and Karl M. Rich at the Southern Africa Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Programme – A Scoping Workshop on Climate Change Pretoria, South Africa, 4 February 2019
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#2021ReSAKSS - Plenary Session I – presentation by Dr. Eliane Ubalijoro, Executive Director, Sustainability in The Digital Age, Global Hub Director, Canada, Future
Earth, and Co-editor of the 2021 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR)
FAO-UNDP Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme (NAP-...UNDP Climate
The FAO-UNDP Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme (NAP-Ag) is a multi-year initiative funded by the Government of Germany. As a country driven process, it supports partner countries to identify and integrate climate adaptation measures for the agricultural sector into relevant national planning and budgeting processes. While the focus of the programme is mainly on the agricultural sectors, the results and process used are highly relevant in providing information to other sectors on how to integrate adaptation needs into national planning and budgeting. The Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans programme works with ministries of agriculture in Colombia, Gambia, Guatemala, Nepal, Kenya, the Philippines, Thailand, Uganda, Uruguay, Viet Nam and Zambia. The programme builds on prior adaptation work and focuses on national level processes with some regional activities. Available in Spanish and French.
Caroline Mwongera
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change & Food Systems
Global Launch Event
MAY 12, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EDT
DRM Webinar III: Benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in ...FAO
Over the past decade, economic damages resulting from natural hazards have amounted to USD 1.5 trillion caused by geophysical hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides, as well as hydro-meteorological hazards, including storms, floods, droughts and wild fires. Climate-related disasters, in particular, are increasing worldwide and expected to intensify with climate change. They disproportionately affect food insecure, poor people – over 75 percent of whom derive their livelihoods from agriculture. Agricultural livelihoods can only be protected from multiple hazards if adequate disaster risk reduction and management efforts are strengthened within and across sectors, anchored in the context-specific needs of local livelihoods systems.
This series of three webinars on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRR/M) in agriculture is organized to:
1. Discuss the new opportunities and pressing challenges in reducing and managing disaster risk in agriculture;
2. Learn and share experiences about disaster risk reduction and management good practices based on concrete examples from the field; discuss how to create evidence and conditions for upscaling of good practices; and
3. Exchange experiences and knowledge with partners around resilience to natural hazards and climate-related disasters.
This webinar covered:
• measuring the benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in agriculture – approaches, methods and findings from FAO’s preliminary study;
• a case study from Uganda on how the agricultural practices for disaster risk reduction were implemented and monitored at farm level; and
• perspective from the Philippines on the challenges and opportunities to upscale the agriculture good practices for disaster risk reduction at national level.
John Ulimwengu
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
Africa Discussion of IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report Climate Change & Food Systems
IFPRI Africa Regional Office
Regional livestock modeling for climate change adaptation and mitigation in S...ILRI
Presentation by Dolapo Enahoro and Karl M. Rich at the Southern Africa Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Programme – A Scoping Workshop on Climate Change Pretoria, South Africa, 4 February 2019
Presentation by Alan de Brauw of IFPRI, Livia Bizikova of IISD, and Francine Picard and Carin Smaller of Shamba Centre for Food and Climate during the policy seminar on How USD 10 billion can transform food systems in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria: Report launch on March 16, 2023.
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Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
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Solidarity Zone
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Memorial
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OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
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Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
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1. Deputy Director, Office of Emergencies and
Resilience, FAO
Economics of Climate Adaptation for
Resilient Food Systems in Africa
Dr. Fleur Wouterse
2. #2023ReSAKSS #2023ATOR
Rationale
• The number of people facing hunger in Africa has increased by 11 million people since 2021 and by more than 57
million people since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (FAO et al. 2023).
• Climate extremes are the second leading cause of food insecurity in Africa, after armed conflict and before
economic slowdowns and growing inequality (FAO et al. 2023).
Figure 1: Food insecurity and its causes in Ethiopia and Niger
• The food system - the entire range of actors, their interlinked value-adding activities, and the broader economic,
societal, and physical environments in which they are embedded - is thus failing to provide food security.
• To build and sustain resilient, viable, and inclusive food systems, African countries are looking to galvanize the
necessary set of individual and collective actions, including policy alignment and increased investments.
3. #2023ReSAKSS #2023ATOR
Rationale
• Future warming will shorten growing seasons and increase water stress.
• A temperature increase of more than 2°C will result in yield reductions for staple crops across most of
Africa, compared to 2005 yields (IPCC 2022).
• A temperature increase of 4°C or more above late-20th-century levels is expected to reduce maize and
wheat yields in countries across Africa south of the Sahara by up to 50 percent (Mbow et al. 2019).
• Smallholder farming systems that continue to dominate the agriculture sector in many African countries
have been recognized as highly vulnerable to climate change because farmers are heavily dependent on
agriculture and livestock for their livelihoods (Mbow et al. 2019).
• Actions to enhance the functioning of food systems will only be effective if they account for climate risk
and integrate adaptation solutions.
• In this chapter, we use several models and data sets from 6 countries to examine the food system-climate
change nexus and build the evidence base for policymakers to mainstream climate risk and adaptation
solutions in food system transformation efforts.
10. #2023ReSAKSS #2023ATOR
Conclusions and policy implications
• The economic implications of climate change are likely to be substantial across African countries.
• A sizable reduction in GDP by 2050 is expected in all four case study countries—Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, and
Senegal—but is more pronounced for the former two, which have a larger agricultural sector.
• The contraction of the economy has implications for employment, poverty, and consumption expenditures.
For Nigeria, the reduction in consumption expenditure is more pronounced for rural households and those
in the lowest income quintile.
• Climate-smart agriculture production strategies—soil and water conservation measures and improved
seed—could mitigate the economic shocks associated with climate change in the four case study countries.
• The investments required are substantial, as, in the four case study countries, between 42 and 90 percent
of arable land would need to be equipped with soil and water conservation measures and between 36 and
71 percent would need to be planted with improved seeds.
• Findings from Ethiopia and Niger reveal that to ensure the sustained uptake of climate-smart strategies by
farm households, there is a need to build their adaptive capacity, for example, through enhancing their
asset base or enhancing human capital.
• Also, additional interventions may be required to induce female-headed households to implement adaptive
production strategies on their farms. These interventions may also have a direct effect on food security.
Notes: Large parts of Kenya experienced extreme warming in October and November of 2021. The warming pattern seems to have resulted from rainfall regime disruptions, as more than half of the country experienced reduced precipitation in November 2021. The decreased rainfall is associated with more than 50 percent of the country’s total area losing more than a quarter to a half of its usual level of greenness.
Mali, in contrast, experienced an increased level of greenness outside the rainy season, particularly in the months of March, April and May. Combining the panels, we can say that compared to the past 20 years, changing climate patterns can be detected in both Kenya and Mali but that these changes are very different.
Notes: Figure 1 depicts yield projections under the climate change scenario (2020–2050) which been constructed using existing empirical evidence for various levels of global warming (0.5°C to 5.5°C) and a range of projected precipitation levels. Low bounds are average values of negative changes of agricultural yields, while high bounds are average values of positive changes in agricultural yields.
To assess the macroeconomic effects of these yield changes, we have adapted the CGE model developed by Decaluwé and colleagues (2012) to the climate change issue by adopting a long-term closure rule to consider more accurately the time dimension. In our CGE model, labor, agricultural land, and other capital are fully mobile between economic activities, which represents a long-term situation in which the economy has time to adjust.
We also used the CGE model outlined above to simulate the shock-mitigating effects of two climate-smart agriculture strategies: soil and water conservation measures and use of improved seed varieties. These are sizable increases that will also have important implications for public expenditure. Beyond mitigating the climate shock, investments in the two climate-smart agriculture techniques yield economywide benefits. For Kenya and Mali, the contribution of agriculture to GDP growth increases as a result of the two adaptation strategies, although much more so in the former country. GDP, employment, consumption, and income increase as a result of the implementation of both strategies in Kenya. In Mali, only adoption of improved seed varieties is projected to yield positive returns beyond climate shock mitigation to GDP, consumption, income, and employment.
Large-scale implementation of soil and water conservation measures and extensive use of improved seed both have the potential to mitigate the yield shocks projected to arise from climate change. These findings thus support the need for increased investments in these strategies, and such strategies already figure in many NAPs or the adaptation section of the Nationally Determined Contributions. But investments in these technologies do not necessarily equate to adoption. To enhance sustained uptake, interventions must be designed in such a way as to account for the diverse needs of farm households.