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Fanrpan cc initiatives
1. FANRPAN Climate Change
Initiatives
Presented by Sepo Hachigonta at the
SACAU consultation workshop on climate change and agriculture,
19 October 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa
2. Background to FANRPAN
• Call by Ministers of Agriculture from East and Southern Africa in 1994
• Created in 1997, registered in 2002 in Zimbabwe, relocated to RSA in 2005
• Focus:
§ Improving policy research, analysis and formulation on key SADC
priority themes
§ Developing human and institutional capacity for coordinated policy
dialogue among all stakeholders
§ Improving policy decision making by enhancing the generation,
exchange and use of policy-related information
• Stakeholder categories:
Farmers, Government, Parliamentarians, Researchers, Private sector,
Media, Development Partners
• National nodes in 16 east and southern African countries:
Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
3. Food, Agriculture and Policy Analysis
Network (FANRPAN)
Aim
To promote appropriate agricultural and natural resources policies
in order to reduce poverty, increase food security and enhance
sustainable agricultural development in Africa
Vision
A food secure Africa free from hunger and poverty
Mission
To promote evidence based policy development in the Food,
Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) sector
How?
q facilitating linkages and partnerships between government
and civil society
q building the capacity for policy analysis and policy dialogue in
Africa
q Create capacity to demand evidence for policy development
4. FANRPAN Structure
A network of networks Commercial Farmers
Farmers
CSOs Commodity Associations
Malawi Government Small-scale farmers associations
Zimbabwe
Namibia Private Sector
Botswana Zambia
Researchers
Mozambique
FANRPAN
Angola Regional Madagascar
Secretariat
Tanzania
Lesotho
DRC
Swaziland
Mauritius
South Africa
5. Future change
Southern Africa projected temperature change at the
large scale Regional temperature:
- Historical observed (Black line)
- Historical simulated by 21 global
models (Red envelope)
- Projected ranges by 21 global
models
6. Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change in
Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Targeting the Most
Vulnerable
In partnership with
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
and CGIAR
7. Objectives
n Promote adaptation among vulnerable populations through developing
comprehensive systems for assessing global changes and the changes of
these impacts across disaggregated systems, groups, and factors
influencing initial state of vulnerability.
n Provide regional organisations, policy-makers and farmers in sub-Saharan
Africa with tools to identify and implement appropriate adaptation strategies.
n Study countries:
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South
Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
8. Swaziland scenarios for 2050
Maize Production Population projections
Number of malnourished
children under 5
GDP per capita
9. Some adaptation recommendations identified in the
country chapters include:
n Development of policies on climate change that would support increased
investment in adaptation programmes highlighted in the NAPA reports;
n Incorporation of climate change adaptation in long-term planning and
developmental programmes including budgetary allocations to climate
change adaptation strategies;
n Smallholder irrigation development targeting the vulnerable communities
n Capacity building in skills and tools for technical assessments, planning and
policy development in the context of climate change
n Awareness raising: A sufficient political awareness of climate change issues
is required to gather the support for action, within government, NGOs,
private sector and the public at large;
n Developing and promote drought-tolerant crop varieties and hardy livestock.
10. Knowledge gaps in estimating regional climate change
• The impact of regional changes in other drivers are not sufficiently
understood e.g. land use change, aerosol emissions - what will be the
impact of increases in biomass burning ?
• Bridging the gap in historical and far future change – the next 20 years ?
• Regional ocean temperatures are only crudely represented
• The effect of topography as a modifier of change i.e. temperature
changes at higher altitudes (will come with running models at a higher
spatial resolution)
• How do all the above interact with the greenhouse gas forced changes
? – do they act in concert (pushing the system into further change) or
mitigate some of the change ?
Information should be presented within the context of uncertainty and projections from multiple
models – choices are informed by carefully evaluated risks !
11. Strengthening Evidence-Based Climate Change
Adaptation Policies
(SECCAP) for Agriculture
with support from
Project inception meeting for Malawi
27 May 2011
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13. SECCAP Objectives
1. To generate solid scientific understanding on climate
change downscaling;
2. To integrate downscaled climate scenarios with
district-wide household vulnerability information;
3. To determine the socio-economic feasibility of
recommended cropping options;
4. To develop appropriate policy recommendations, in
particular the NAPA priorities in agriculture;
5. To transfer the knowledge generated to decision/policy
makers and local communities;
15. Future change
Downscaling
The challenge of
bring confident
large scale
projections to
scales of
adaptation and
policy
16. Expected outcomes
• Strengthened local scientific, expertise and local
knowledge;
• Strengthened partnership and networking on
adaptation research among different institutions;
• Use integrated approach to assesses adaptation
investment options (combining climate, crop,
productivity and livelihoods);
• Rank cropping adaptation options on the basis of
feasibility (climate, cost benefit and policy);
17. Project partners
University of Cape Town University of Malawi National University of Lesotho
University of Venda University of Swaziland International Food Policy
(South Africa) Research Institute
18. Building Climate Change Resilience in Africa's
Agricultural Research Programmes
The Rockefeller Foundation
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
19. Objectives
n Improving food security throughout sub-Saharan Africa by promoting
the integration of climate change adaptation into agriculture
research and policy agendas, and making climate change science
more comprehensible to policy-makers, scientists and the private
sector.
n To provide advocacy support on policy research initiative on climate
change.
20. Outputs
n Advisory Notes to governments based on dialogue proceedings
n Ministerial/Parliamentarians’ responses
n Policy Briefs on mainstreaming climate change knowledge into
agriculture research programmes
n A database of stakeholders keen on interface
n A long-term research proposal on climate proofing agriculture
research
n Information and Knowledge Dissemination
21. Copyright
FANRPAN Regional Secretariat
141 Cresswell Road, Weavind Park 0184, Private Bag X2087 ,Pretoria, South Africa
Tel: +27 (0) 12 804 2966 , Fax: +27 (0) 12 804 0600
Email: policy@fanrpan.org Website: www.fanrpan.org
