This presentation was made by Dr. Robert B. Zougmoré, CCAFS Africa Program Leader, at the WASCAL Science Symposium, 19-21 June 2018, Tang Palace Hotel, Accra, Ghana
The multilevel CSA monitoring set of standard core uptake and outcome indicators + expanded indicators linked to a rapid and reliable ICT based data collection instrument to systematically
assess and monitor:
- CSA Adoption/ Access to CIS
- CSA effects on food security and livelihoods household level)
- CSA effects on farm performance
Taking Forward the Implementation of the Agriculture Priority Actions in NCCAP (2013–2017) Kenyan Experience
A presentation from CCAFS East Africa Regional Program.
This document summarizes DAI's work on climate-smart agriculture projects. It discusses DAI's mission to improve people's lives through development work. It then outlines several of DAI's flagship projects that incorporate climate-smart agriculture programming, including projects in Central America, Kenya, Indonesia, and the Pacific region. The document discusses how climate change impacts agriculture through changing weather patterns. It presents a framework for assessing farm system stability and identifying factors that stabilize or destabilize systems. Finally, it introduces a Farm-Level Climate Smart Agriculture Assessment Tool that DAI is developing and seeking feedback on through further piloting.
This document presents a multidimensional framework for monitoring climate-smart agriculture (CSA) outcomes at farm and household levels. The framework includes standard indicators to assess CSA adoption, effects on food security and livelihoods, and farm performance. Data will be collected using an integrated ICT-based tool to allow for systematic, rapid and reliable monitoring. The framework and tool aim to provide a cost-effective way to understand CSA adoption trends and synergies or trade-offs across productivity, adaptation, mitigation and other dimensions at multiple levels.
Presentation by Philip Thornton, Theme Leader, CCAFS, at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Intensification of maize-legume based systems in the semi-arid areas of Tanza...africa-rising
This document summarizes research being conducted in Tanzania to intensify maize-legume farming systems in semi-arid areas. The research aims to increase farm productivity and improve the farming landscape. Key findings include:
1) Improved varieties of crops like maize, groundnuts, and pigeonpeas have increased yields compared to local varieties.
2) Integrated soil fertility management including fertilizer application has increased maize yields but response to nitrogen was low, indicating other limiting factors.
3) Soil and water conservation techniques like deep tillage and in-situ water harvesting improved yields compared to traditional practices.
4) Aflatoxin contamination was found in many crops sampled, presenting food
This presentation was made by Dr. Robert B. Zougmoré, CCAFS Africa Program Leader, at the WASCAL Science Symposium, 19-21 June 2018, Tang Palace Hotel, Accra, Ghana
The multilevel CSA monitoring set of standard core uptake and outcome indicators + expanded indicators linked to a rapid and reliable ICT based data collection instrument to systematically
assess and monitor:
- CSA Adoption/ Access to CIS
- CSA effects on food security and livelihoods household level)
- CSA effects on farm performance
Taking Forward the Implementation of the Agriculture Priority Actions in NCCAP (2013–2017) Kenyan Experience
A presentation from CCAFS East Africa Regional Program.
This document summarizes DAI's work on climate-smart agriculture projects. It discusses DAI's mission to improve people's lives through development work. It then outlines several of DAI's flagship projects that incorporate climate-smart agriculture programming, including projects in Central America, Kenya, Indonesia, and the Pacific region. The document discusses how climate change impacts agriculture through changing weather patterns. It presents a framework for assessing farm system stability and identifying factors that stabilize or destabilize systems. Finally, it introduces a Farm-Level Climate Smart Agriculture Assessment Tool that DAI is developing and seeking feedback on through further piloting.
This document presents a multidimensional framework for monitoring climate-smart agriculture (CSA) outcomes at farm and household levels. The framework includes standard indicators to assess CSA adoption, effects on food security and livelihoods, and farm performance. Data will be collected using an integrated ICT-based tool to allow for systematic, rapid and reliable monitoring. The framework and tool aim to provide a cost-effective way to understand CSA adoption trends and synergies or trade-offs across productivity, adaptation, mitigation and other dimensions at multiple levels.
Presentation by Philip Thornton, Theme Leader, CCAFS, at the CCAFS Workshop on Institutions and Policies to Scale out Climate Smart Agriculture held between 2-5 December 2013, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Intensification of maize-legume based systems in the semi-arid areas of Tanza...africa-rising
This document summarizes research being conducted in Tanzania to intensify maize-legume farming systems in semi-arid areas. The research aims to increase farm productivity and improve the farming landscape. Key findings include:
1) Improved varieties of crops like maize, groundnuts, and pigeonpeas have increased yields compared to local varieties.
2) Integrated soil fertility management including fertilizer application has increased maize yields but response to nitrogen was low, indicating other limiting factors.
3) Soil and water conservation techniques like deep tillage and in-situ water harvesting improved yields compared to traditional practices.
4) Aflatoxin contamination was found in many crops sampled, presenting food
1. Agriculture is the backbone of India's economy, with two-thirds of the workforce depending on it. However, agricultural growth rates have been lower than planned in the past decade.
2. Small farm sizes, environmental degradation, and unsustainable use of water resources have hindered agricultural productivity.
3. Policies need to shift subsidies towards investment, adopt new technologies, and incentivize sustainable farming practices to boost agricultural growth while protecting the environment.
This is a Key NOTE Presentation to COP21- EAC Side Event: 4th December 2015.The presentation looks at the changing climate in East Africa and the climate-smart tools available.
This document outlines the methodology for assessing seed system programs against the One CGIAR Theory of Change. It describes a 5-step process for program managers and colleagues to assess: 1) the characteristics of the seed system and case boundaries, 2) activities and importance of action areas, 3) impact areas, targets, and indicators and contributions, 4) importance of innovation pathways, and 5) observations. Key aspects include scoring relative importance and contributions across action areas, impact areas, indicators, and innovation pathways. Progress and spheres of control, influence, and interest are also scored for innovation and capacity development examples. The assessment aims to evaluate programs' alignment with CGIAR's Theory of Change.
Keating - Sustainable intensification and the food security challenge CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
The document discusses climate smart agriculture (CSA) policy and coordination in the East African Community (EAC). It outlines the EAC's role in developing CSA policies and programs to improve agricultural productivity and food security while reducing emissions. Key points include:
1) The EAC has developed a CSA policy framework to guide adaptation and mitigation efforts across the region.
2) Challenges to scaling up CSA include weak institutions, lack of technical capacity and information sharing, and limited funding.
3) Opportunities include mainstreaming CSA into development plans, policies and strategies with support from initiatives like CAADP and efforts to mobilize climate finance.
4) The EAC
This document describes a Bayesian Belief Network model developed to determine the most suitable climate-smart agriculture water management technologies for Tanzania's Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor. The model considers various biophysical, social, and economic factors that influence the suitability of different technologies across the diverse agricultural regions in the corridor. It was parameterized using quantitative data and expert knowledge. The results indicate that drip irrigation has the highest suitability where market access, water availability, and social assets are strong, while charco dams are universally suitable due to their low startup costs and independence from social factors. Water harvesting and rice intensification techniques showed more limited suitability due to greater dependence on capital resources and specific farming systems, respectively. The model is intended
Building Smallholder Farmer Resilience to Climate Change in Africa: Building ...SIANI
There is a renewed interest in the role of agriculture at the climate change negotiations, as evidenced by a number of interesting side-events during COP 16 in Cancun. The reason is simple: Agriculture and related activities account for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, most of which can be mitigated, an opportunity that policy makers simply cannot afford to miss. What’s more, some of the techniques that sequester carbon have the added advantage of building the water-retention capacity and nutrient content of soils, hence contributing to a triple-win situation where mitigation, adaptation and yield increases are all addressed.
In response to this, SIANI and Sida arranged a one-day workshop on the theme From Source to Sink: How to make Agriculture part of the Solution to Climate Change while contributing to Poverty Alleviation? The main purpose of the workshop was to link the multiple potentials of agriculture to other development goals such as over-all poverty alleviation and food security, with particular reference to the needs of smallholder farmers who make up 70% of the world’s poorest people.
Launch of the Southeast Asia office of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security http://ccafs.cgiar.org
7 May 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Presentation by Bruce Campbell, CCAFS Program Director
Mowo - Targeting farmer’s priorities for effective agricultural intensificati...CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Krystal Crumpler, Climate Change and Agricultural Specialist at FAO, during the webinar "Achieving NDC Ambition in Agriculture" organized by CCAFS, FAO and WRI.
Find the recording and more information here: https://bit.ly/AchievingNDCs
DRM Webinar I: Governing and managing disaster risk in the agriculture sectorFAO
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.
The webinar covers:
• Institutional capacity development for DRM for resilience, food security and nutrition
• Mainstreaming DRM in agriculture sector planning
• Linking planning and capacity development for DRM, resilience and climate change adaptation (CCA)
This document discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Africa and policies to promote food security and mitigate climate change through agriculture. It finds that climate change will significantly reduce crop yields but economic factors can lessen the impacts. Existing climate-smart agriculture practices can help increase production and reduce hunger and emissions to some degree. However, greater investment in technologies, irrigation, and research are needed to provide full adaptation and mitigation. The same policies that promote agricultural growth, like research and irrigation investment, also support climate goals when focused on efficiency. Africa could achieve climate-smart growth through agricultural emissions reductions paired with reduced deforestation.
Este documento describe cómo las redes sociales pueden apoyar la gestión del conocimiento en una organización. Explica que las redes sociales permiten compartir y transferir conocimiento de una manera fácil y colaborativa. También menciona algunos beneficios clave como mejorar la comunicación, fomentar el trabajo en equipo y proporcionar un único repositorio confiable de información para toda la organización.
El análisis encontró varios errores en la página web como errores ortográficos, de diseño, gramaticales y enlaces vacíos o rotos. También se identificaron problemas con botones y barras de desplazamiento que no funcionan correctamente.
1. Agriculture is the backbone of India's economy, with two-thirds of the workforce depending on it. However, agricultural growth rates have been lower than planned in the past decade.
2. Small farm sizes, environmental degradation, and unsustainable use of water resources have hindered agricultural productivity.
3. Policies need to shift subsidies towards investment, adopt new technologies, and incentivize sustainable farming practices to boost agricultural growth while protecting the environment.
This is a Key NOTE Presentation to COP21- EAC Side Event: 4th December 2015.The presentation looks at the changing climate in East Africa and the climate-smart tools available.
This document outlines the methodology for assessing seed system programs against the One CGIAR Theory of Change. It describes a 5-step process for program managers and colleagues to assess: 1) the characteristics of the seed system and case boundaries, 2) activities and importance of action areas, 3) impact areas, targets, and indicators and contributions, 4) importance of innovation pathways, and 5) observations. Key aspects include scoring relative importance and contributions across action areas, impact areas, indicators, and innovation pathways. Progress and spheres of control, influence, and interest are also scored for innovation and capacity development examples. The assessment aims to evaluate programs' alignment with CGIAR's Theory of Change.
Keating - Sustainable intensification and the food security challenge CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
The document discusses climate smart agriculture (CSA) policy and coordination in the East African Community (EAC). It outlines the EAC's role in developing CSA policies and programs to improve agricultural productivity and food security while reducing emissions. Key points include:
1) The EAC has developed a CSA policy framework to guide adaptation and mitigation efforts across the region.
2) Challenges to scaling up CSA include weak institutions, lack of technical capacity and information sharing, and limited funding.
3) Opportunities include mainstreaming CSA into development plans, policies and strategies with support from initiatives like CAADP and efforts to mobilize climate finance.
4) The EAC
This document describes a Bayesian Belief Network model developed to determine the most suitable climate-smart agriculture water management technologies for Tanzania's Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor. The model considers various biophysical, social, and economic factors that influence the suitability of different technologies across the diverse agricultural regions in the corridor. It was parameterized using quantitative data and expert knowledge. The results indicate that drip irrigation has the highest suitability where market access, water availability, and social assets are strong, while charco dams are universally suitable due to their low startup costs and independence from social factors. Water harvesting and rice intensification techniques showed more limited suitability due to greater dependence on capital resources and specific farming systems, respectively. The model is intended
Building Smallholder Farmer Resilience to Climate Change in Africa: Building ...SIANI
There is a renewed interest in the role of agriculture at the climate change negotiations, as evidenced by a number of interesting side-events during COP 16 in Cancun. The reason is simple: Agriculture and related activities account for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, most of which can be mitigated, an opportunity that policy makers simply cannot afford to miss. What’s more, some of the techniques that sequester carbon have the added advantage of building the water-retention capacity and nutrient content of soils, hence contributing to a triple-win situation where mitigation, adaptation and yield increases are all addressed.
In response to this, SIANI and Sida arranged a one-day workshop on the theme From Source to Sink: How to make Agriculture part of the Solution to Climate Change while contributing to Poverty Alleviation? The main purpose of the workshop was to link the multiple potentials of agriculture to other development goals such as over-all poverty alleviation and food security, with particular reference to the needs of smallholder farmers who make up 70% of the world’s poorest people.
Launch of the Southeast Asia office of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security http://ccafs.cgiar.org
7 May 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Presentation by Bruce Campbell, CCAFS Program Director
Mowo - Targeting farmer’s priorities for effective agricultural intensificati...CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Krystal Crumpler, Climate Change and Agricultural Specialist at FAO, during the webinar "Achieving NDC Ambition in Agriculture" organized by CCAFS, FAO and WRI.
Find the recording and more information here: https://bit.ly/AchievingNDCs
DRM Webinar I: Governing and managing disaster risk in the agriculture sectorFAO
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.
The webinar covers:
• Institutional capacity development for DRM for resilience, food security and nutrition
• Mainstreaming DRM in agriculture sector planning
• Linking planning and capacity development for DRM, resilience and climate change adaptation (CCA)
This document discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Africa and policies to promote food security and mitigate climate change through agriculture. It finds that climate change will significantly reduce crop yields but economic factors can lessen the impacts. Existing climate-smart agriculture practices can help increase production and reduce hunger and emissions to some degree. However, greater investment in technologies, irrigation, and research are needed to provide full adaptation and mitigation. The same policies that promote agricultural growth, like research and irrigation investment, also support climate goals when focused on efficiency. Africa could achieve climate-smart growth through agricultural emissions reductions paired with reduced deforestation.
Este documento describe cómo las redes sociales pueden apoyar la gestión del conocimiento en una organización. Explica que las redes sociales permiten compartir y transferir conocimiento de una manera fácil y colaborativa. También menciona algunos beneficios clave como mejorar la comunicación, fomentar el trabajo en equipo y proporcionar un único repositorio confiable de información para toda la organización.
El análisis encontró varios errores en la página web como errores ortográficos, de diseño, gramaticales y enlaces vacíos o rotos. También se identificaron problemas con botones y barras de desplazamiento que no funcionan correctamente.
Seminario Como aprovechar las redes sociales para vender másPymes 2.0
Seminario dictado por Cecilia Nuñez y Valeria Viva en el marco del Programa Pymes 2.0 dependiente de la Subsecretaría de Desarrollo Económico del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
El documento describe una metodología para implementar la mejora continua en una organización a través de procesos estables y capaces. La mejora continua implica medir los procesos, identificar oportunidades de mejora, y realizar acciones para mejorar de manera sistemática. Se requiere control de procesos y el uso de herramientas estadísticas para lograr mejoras significativas a largo plazo.
The document discusses the vision of James A. Blaisdell for the Claremont Colleges library system in 1923, wanting small colleges united around shared library resources. It notes changes in collections, technology, the roles of librarians, and students. The chief information officer suggests ways for librarians to respond to challenges, such as increasing discovery of resources, leveraging fewer staff through partnerships, collaborating more with faculty and students, focusing collections on what makes them unique, and emphasizing assessment.
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.
This document discusses the challenges of climate change and food security, and proposes climate-smart agriculture and diversity as keys to adaptation. It notes that climate change is likely to exceed 1.5°C by 2100, negatively impacting agriculture yields. To meet rising global food demand while reducing emissions will require innovative solutions. Climate-smart agriculture promotes greater climate risk management, technologies to cope with extremes, and integrated solutions at landscape and village levels. Diversity of crops, fields, and food systems can improve resilience to changing conditions. Conserving crop wild relatives and participatory testing of diverse varieties can help adapt to future climates.
Presentation by Mario Herrero, Philip Thornton and Iain Wright to Workshop on climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the livestock sector, Kathmandu, Nepal, 28-29 October 2010.
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.
Crop-livestock intensification in the face of climate change: exploring oppor...ICRISAT
This study used an integrated multi-modeling approach to assess the impact of climate change and potential adaptation strategies on crop-livestock systems in Southern Africa. The models projected increases in temperature of 1-5°C and decreases in rainfall of 5-10% for the mid-century. Without adaptation, about 60% of farms would lose income due to climate change impacts. The evaluated adaptation strategies, including drought-tolerant maize varieties, crop rotations, and micro-dosing of fertilizer, reduced the proportion of losing farms to 20% while increasing farm incomes for up to 80% of farms, though benefits were small (<20% income increases). Adaptation provided the greatest benefits for larger farms while small farms saw only modest
Can agricultural biotechnologies address the challenges of climate change. li...ExternalEvents
- The document discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture and agriculture on climate change, and whether agricultural biotechnologies can address climate change challenges.
- It analyzes drought tolerance in genetically engineered, marker-assisted selection bred, and organic/ecological crops. Genetically engineered maize provides a 6% yield advantage under drought, while marker-assisted varieties yield 30% more. Organic corn yields were 31% higher than conventional in drought years.
- The document concludes that diversified agroecological systems are more productive and resilient than industrial agriculture under climate change. A paradigm shift toward biodiverse, agroecological farming is needed to meet social, economic and environmental goals sustainably.
Uganda is experiencing effects of climate change including floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures which are damaging crops, livestock, and reducing incomes. To address this, Uganda's strategy is promoting Climate Smart Agriculture through mainstreaming climate change into policies, increasing climate resilient crops, improving watershed management, and capacity building. Key projects are installing weather stations, promoting natural resource management, supporting climate smart technologies and practices, and building resilient infrastructure. However, challenges remain such as limited resilient crop and animal options, lack of funding and information, and low skills/capacity. Coordination is led by the Ministry of Agriculture Climate Smart Agriculture taskforce working with districts and communities.
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 poses risks to global food security by reducing agricultural productivity and increasing weather variability. The effects are already seen in reduced wheat and maize yields in many regions. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are particularly vulnerable hotspots. Projections show further crop yield losses after 2030 if temperatures rise over 2°C, posing large risks to food availability and access. Adaptation is needed through use of existing technologies, managing climate risks, exploiting co-benefits of practices that both adapt and mitigate greenhouse gases, identifying benefits of climate change, and addressing poverty and governance challenges.
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
Keynote presentation by Philip Thornton, CCAFS Flagship Leader on Priorities and Policies for CSA, at the 3rd Conference on Agriculture and Climate Change in Budapest on 25 March 2019.
Presentation by M. Herrero, P.K. Thornton, A. Notenbaert and S. Moyo to the FANRPAN Annual High Level Regional Food Security Policy Dialogue, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 August - 3 September, 2010.
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.
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.
What will it take to establish a climate smart agricultural world? Presentation on the problems, solutions and key challenges in Climate Smart Agriculture. Presentation made in the Wayamba Conference in Sri Lanka, August 2014.
van Asten P. 2014. Implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
Contents:
1. CCAFS – what we do
2. What is CSA in the African context
3. Best bet CSA technologies
4. CSA services and approaches
5. How can we identify the priorities?
6. Collaborative possibilities
Policies and finance to scale-up Climate-Smart Livestock SystemsILRI
Presented by William Sutton, Pierre Gerber, Leah Germer, Félix Teillard, Clark Halpern, Benjamin Henderson, Michael Mcleod and Lee Cando at the Programme for Climate-Smart Livestock systems Closing Event, 13 September 2022
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.
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Preventing the next pandemic: a 12-slide primer on emerging zoonotic diseasesILRI
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The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help enhance one's emotional well-being and mental clarity.
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Informing targeted adaptation and mitigation investments for long term livestock sector development in Africa
1. Informing targeted adaptation and mitigation
investments for long term livestock sector
development in Africa
Abdou Fall
9th
Conference of Ministers Responsible for
Livestock/Animal Resources in Africa, Abidjan, 16-19
April 2013
2. Outline
Background
Impact of climate change on livestock systems
Impact of livestock on climate change
Approaches to adaptation
Approaches to mitigation
Conclusions
3. – Livestock production systems in Africa are changing
rapidly and there are large numbers of people to feed with
shrinking natural resource base
– Lots of drivers of future changes of livestock systems:
– Population/ Urbanization
– Growth in demand
– Competition for natural resources
– Climate change: warmer and more variable
Background
4. Background
IPCC (2007), Climate change projections, Africa
Very likely increase in temperature, above global
means;
Rainfall likely to decrease in Northern Africa and
increase in East Africa; inconsistent projections in the
Sahel (drier parts and wetter parts)
Extreme events (very likely dry spells and flooding)
5. Background
Regions in Africa that will be most affected by climate change
are places with large numbers of vulnerable poor people that
depend on livestock as a key livelihood strategy
ILRI has worked in the past:
– To identify how are these regions likely to change
– To identify the magnitudes of the expected impacts on
livestock systems
This has informed the design and pilot testing of targeted
adaptation an mitigation approaches framed in relation to
vulnerability and risk management.
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6. Why is climate change so important to poor
countries?
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7. Impact of climate change on livestock and livestock
systems
• Will have important impacts at system level
which are poorly understood
• Specific livestock system components that will
be affected include:
• Feed and water availability
• Disease distribution
• Adaptation and survival of livestock
8. Climate change impacts on livestock and livestock
systems
Feed quantity, quality:
Changes in land use systems, primary
productivity, species composition and
quality of the materials
• Tradeoffs – conservation agriculture, feed, fuel
• In semi-arid areas – importance of feed from
food crop failures
9. National
Production
Mixed rainfed
temperate
Mixed rainfed
humid
Mixed rainfed
arid
2030 2050 2030 2050 2030 2050 2030 2050
Burundi 9 9 14 18 -2 -9 - -
Kenya 15 18 33 46 -5 -10 -1 -8
Rwanda 11 15 13 19 5 4 1 3
Tanzania -3 -8 7 9 -2 -6 -5 -11
Uganda -2 -9 5 3 -5 -13 -1 -6
There may be winners as well as losers …
Simulated percentage pasture production changes to 2030 and 2050, by
country and system
Mean of 4 combinations of GCM and emissions scenarios
Thornton et al. (2010)
Winners
Losers
10. Animal Diseases and Climate Change
•Climate change effect on disease is
complex and difficult to predict.
•Climate is an important but not the only
driver of change in disease distribution
(population, intensification of systems)
Climate change impacts on livestock and livestock
systems
11. Tsetse Distribution and Climate Change
Model predictions for to changes in tsetse
distribution to 2030 from current distributions for
morsitans (left), fusca (centre) and palpalis (right)
tsetse groups as a result of changes in length of
growing period
No change: Absent
Presence to Absence
Absence to Presence
No change: Present
McDermott et al. (2001), revised 2005
12. Impact of climate change on livestock and livestock
systems
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Heat stress:
Higher impact in high altitudes (reduced productivity);
Lower impact in low altitudes where livestock ecotypes
have developed fitness traits to adapt to hot/dry or
hot/humid ecosystems
Biodiversity :
Loss of high value breeds/ ecotypes and their unique
genes ( fitness traits).
13. Impact of Livestock on Climate change
A food chain perspective of GHG emissions
(Livestock Long Shadow),
Feed production: Fertilizer, fossil fuel, land use
change, fires
Livestock rearing: Enteric ferm., manure mangt.
Post-harvest:
16. Changes in
growing conditions
to 2050
Climate Change Risk / Impact
Different scenarios
of the future
Biophysical
vulnerability
Social
vulnerability
14 indicators
Data reduction analysis
4 factors, combined
into one “overall”
vulnerability indicator
Hot-spots
Hot-spots
Hot-spots of climate risk
AND vulnerability
Vulnerability
17. Highest vulnerability
quartile (4)
Second-highest vulnerability
quartile (3)
Possibly severe LGP
loss (>20% to 2050)
• Some MRA systems in
Sahel
• Mixed rainfed and
highland perennial systems
in Great Lakes region of E
Africa
• LGA systems in parts of
E Africa
• MRA, LGA systems in large parts
of Sahel
• Livestock systems and some
mixed systems in parts of E and
southern Africa
• Coastal systems in E and parts of
southern Africa
Possibly moderate LGP
loss (5-20% to 2050)
• Mixed systems in parts of
E Africa
• Coastal systems of parts of W
Africa
• Tree crop systems in parts of W
Africa
• Forest-based systems in central
Africa
• Root-based and root-mixed
systems in south central Africa
Synthesis of hot-spots
MRA, mixed rainfed arid-semairid systems LGA, rangeland arid-semiarid systems
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Adaptation approaches
Diversification of livelihood strategies: Payment of
Environmental Services in rangelands
Largest land use system
Potentially a large C sink
Could be an important income
diversification source
Difficulties in: Measuring and monitoring
C stocks; Establishment of payment
schemes; Dealing with mobile
pastoralists, non clear land use and
property rights
19. 19
Adaptation approaches
Securing livestock assets: Index Based Livestock
Insurance, IBLI
Innovative index based insurance to manage weather
related risk; drought related livestock losses)… Piloted in
Kenya and Ethiopia
•Protect productive assets of the poor
•All insured clients in a geographical area are compensated when
an external independent indicator (NDVI) that predicts rangeland
state, reaches a strike point.
Challenges to go at scale: Need for high quality data to design
and price insurance contracts; Effective demand ; Cost effective
delivery systems.
20. 20
Adaptation approaches
Responsiveness of feeding systems
•Assessment of feed resources a the national and local
levels
•‘Moving megajoules’ feed surplus to feed deficit areas
•Introduction of feed processing and storage technologies
21. Mitigation approaches
Adaptation options can also lead to mitigation and vice-
versa:
– Increasing efficiency/productivity to produce
lower GHG per unit of product (milk, meat)
through sustainable intensification:
• Improved feeding systems; Superior breeds
• Market incentives: Inputs and services provision
• Managing negative environmental externalities
22. Conclusion
Climate change is happening but we need to act even
if the magnitude of the impacts is uncertain
Impacts of climate change on livestock in Africa is
heterogeneous but potentially severe, especially in
arid and semi-arid areas.
Adaptation to climate change need to be considered
in the context of other significant drivers of change
.
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23. Conclusion
PES and IBLI are potential income
diversification and risk management options in
the face of climate change that need further
investment in Africa
If they are to be successful, both adaptation
and mitigation options will require:
– investments in terms of infrastructure (roads,
market development, development of water
resources, market information, telecom)
– Supportive policies, regulations and institutions 23
24. The presentation has a Creative Commons licence. You are free to re-use or distribute this work, provided credit is
given to ILRI.
better lives through livestock
ilri.org
Editor's Notes
Evidence of latter already occurs – conflicts between agriculturalists and pastoralists in the Sahel
Note that this interpretation of vulnerability is the “norm” for the global change community, but economists would have a different take on it. I like this interpretation, as it sees vulnerability as a characteristic of people and communities. So to look at it, and to see how to reduce it, you need info on the hazards faced (here, climate change) as well as on the features of vulnerability that define the populations you are looking at.