This document outlines the agenda for a dialogue on investing in performance for more impactful public-private partnerships. The morning session will include framing of the dialogue, challenge interventions from thought leaders, and showcase examples. The afternoon session will feature workshops on measuring performance in farming practices, upscaling climate-smart solutions, and monitoring empowerment. The goal is to discuss new financial models and result-based payments to reach scale and impact through multi-stakeholder coalitions.
P3.3. Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Inovation in PC & PC CountriesGCARD Conferences
This document provides an overview of sector development approaches and capacity strengthening in Rwanda's agriculture sector from 1994 to 2012. It discusses:
1) Background on Rwanda's economy, population, land use, and how the agriculture sector was impacted by war and genocide in the 1990s.
2) Key milestones and interventions to strengthen capacity, including agricultural policy reforms through strategies like SPAT I, II, and III; institutional capacity building; and human capacity building.
3) The impact of these capacity strengthening efforts, which aimed to reverse declining agricultural growth and increase food security, employment, and economic development in the sector. The agriculture sector now contributes 30-35% to Rwanda's GDP and employs over
This document summarizes a virtual workshop on advancing agricultural climate action in West Africa. It included presentations on enhancing agricultural ambition in Nationally Determined Contributions, Nigeria's experience developing a national action plan on short-lived climate pollutants, and implementing agricultural climate actions. The workshop provided an overview of opportunities to reduce agricultural emissions in West Africa through improved livestock management, crop management, land management, and sustainable production and consumption. Presenters discussed tools and approaches for raising agricultural climate ambition in NDCs and supporting national planning processes in Nigeria and other countries in the region.
During the webinar, the speakers promoted a set of training materials that is freely available for those interested in learning more about the implementation of NDCs in the agriculture sector in Africa.
More info about the webinar: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/implementing-ndcs-agriculture-sector-across-africa-what-directions-capacity-building#.XxaxH_gzbfZ
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
Deployment of a Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystem by CreofelJoshuaOfor
Revolutionizing agriculture in Africa, by deploying fully-controlled, greenhouse farming systems, enabling high scale local production, and providing the region with nutritious, and safe food; all these being done with fewer resources & contributing greatly to the global climate action agenda.
During the webinar, the speakers promoted a set of training materials that is freely available for those interested in learning more about the implementation of NDCs in the agriculture sector in Africa.
More info about the webinar: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/implementing-ndcs-agriculture-sector-across-africa-what-directions-capacity-building#.XxaxH_gzbfZ
Retiming of digital circuits is conventionally based on the estimates of propagation delays across different paths in the data-flow graphs (DFGs) obtained by discrete component
timing model, which implicitly assumes that operation of a node can begin only after the completion of the operation(s) of its preceding node(s) to obey the data dependence requirement. Such a discrete component timing model very often gives much higher
estimates of the propagation delays than the actuals particularly when the computations in the DFG nodes correspond to fixed point arithmetic operations like additions and multiplications
P3.3. Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Inovation in PC & PC CountriesGCARD Conferences
This document provides an overview of sector development approaches and capacity strengthening in Rwanda's agriculture sector from 1994 to 2012. It discusses:
1) Background on Rwanda's economy, population, land use, and how the agriculture sector was impacted by war and genocide in the 1990s.
2) Key milestones and interventions to strengthen capacity, including agricultural policy reforms through strategies like SPAT I, II, and III; institutional capacity building; and human capacity building.
3) The impact of these capacity strengthening efforts, which aimed to reverse declining agricultural growth and increase food security, employment, and economic development in the sector. The agriculture sector now contributes 30-35% to Rwanda's GDP and employs over
This document summarizes a virtual workshop on advancing agricultural climate action in West Africa. It included presentations on enhancing agricultural ambition in Nationally Determined Contributions, Nigeria's experience developing a national action plan on short-lived climate pollutants, and implementing agricultural climate actions. The workshop provided an overview of opportunities to reduce agricultural emissions in West Africa through improved livestock management, crop management, land management, and sustainable production and consumption. Presenters discussed tools and approaches for raising agricultural climate ambition in NDCs and supporting national planning processes in Nigeria and other countries in the region.
During the webinar, the speakers promoted a set of training materials that is freely available for those interested in learning more about the implementation of NDCs in the agriculture sector in Africa.
More info about the webinar: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/implementing-ndcs-agriculture-sector-across-africa-what-directions-capacity-building#.XxaxH_gzbfZ
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
Deployment of a Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystem by CreofelJoshuaOfor
Revolutionizing agriculture in Africa, by deploying fully-controlled, greenhouse farming systems, enabling high scale local production, and providing the region with nutritious, and safe food; all these being done with fewer resources & contributing greatly to the global climate action agenda.
During the webinar, the speakers promoted a set of training materials that is freely available for those interested in learning more about the implementation of NDCs in the agriculture sector in Africa.
More info about the webinar: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/implementing-ndcs-agriculture-sector-across-africa-what-directions-capacity-building#.XxaxH_gzbfZ
Retiming of digital circuits is conventionally based on the estimates of propagation delays across different paths in the data-flow graphs (DFGs) obtained by discrete component
timing model, which implicitly assumes that operation of a node can begin only after the completion of the operation(s) of its preceding node(s) to obey the data dependence requirement. Such a discrete component timing model very often gives much higher
estimates of the propagation delays than the actuals particularly when the computations in the DFG nodes correspond to fixed point arithmetic operations like additions and multiplications
Este documento es una reflexión sobre el trabajo final realizado por Edver Alejandro Cisneros Soto. Resume que adquirió nuevos conocimientos sobre organizadores digitales que podrá aplicar en su práctica docente para beneficiar a sus estudiantes. Identifica haber participado activamente en el foro y que puede mejorar comunicándose más con sus colegas. También reconoce las ventajas de utilizar organizadores digitales en lugar de formatos en papel, incluyendo que es más entretenido y dinámico y permite el uso de recursos digitales
El documento presenta principios y estrategias metodológicas para enseñar y aprender de manera efectiva. Se enfatiza comenzar desde el nivel de desarrollo del estudiante, promover un aprendizaje significativo y activo, e individualizar y socializar la enseñanza. También recomienda utilizar materiales curriculares realistas y flexibles, diseñar actividades que motiven a los estudiantes y desarrollen sus habilidades a través de enfoques interdisciplinarios y contextualizados.
Foro primer bloque teoria de la seguridadMao Sierra
Las organizaciones han identificado nuevos riesgos relacionados con la seguridad de la información como ataques a hardware y firmware, ransomware, dispositivos wearables sin protección, automóviles conectados, almacenes de datos robados, ataques a través de empleados y servicios en la nube. Han dado una alta importancia a la seguridad de la información para mitigar estos riesgos y proteger sus sistemas e información confidencial. La seguridad de la información es fundamental para ayudar a las organizaciones a cumplir sus objetivos estrat
Este regulamento descreve o projeto educativo Missão POWER UP, que promove a eficiência energética nas escolas portuguesas. As escolas formam equipas multidisciplinares que devem diagnosticar o consumo de energia e implementar ações para o reduzir, concorrendo a prémios. O regulamento define os prazos, critérios de avaliação e prémios do concurso.
Este documento presenta un tema sobre la producción agrícola en las regiones del Perú. Incluye actividades para calcular precios de venta luego de aumentos sucesivos, así como modelar aumentos y descuentos. Se pide determinar el precio final de varios productos luego de que mayoristas y minoristas apliquen aumentos porcentuales sucesivos, y resolver problemas sobre aumentos y descuentos múltiples.
This document discusses land restoration and forest landscape restoration efforts in Africa. It provides examples of farmer-managed natural regeneration projects across 22 African countries that have committed to restoring over 59 million hectares of degraded land. These projects include regenerating trees on croplands, parklands, rangelands, and grazing lands. The document advocates for scaling up these types of restoration projects using approaches like evergreen agriculture that integrate trees into agricultural systems. The goal is to enable every farm family and village in Africa's drylands to practice farmer-managed natural regeneration by 2025 to combat land degradation and food insecurity.
Este documento presenta información sobre el Impuesto General a las Ventas (IGV) en Perú. Explica que el IGV representa el 18% del precio de venta de bienes y servicios. También cubre cómo calcular el precio con IGV a partir del precio sin IGV, y a la inversa. Además, detalla que el 2% de lo recaudado por el IGV se destina al Fondo de Compensación Municipal. El documento contiene ejercicios para practicar cálculos relacionados con el IGV.
Pre encoded multipliers based on non-redundant radix-4 signed-digit encodingPvrtechnologies Nellore
This paper introduces an architecture for pre-encoded multipliers used in digital signal processing based on offline encoding of coefficients using a non-redundant radix-4 signed-digit encoding technique. Experimental analysis shows the proposed multipliers using this encoding technique, along with a coefficients memory, are more efficient in terms of area and power compared to conventional Modified Booth encoding schemes.
The Holy Spirit is the revealer and inspirer of God's written Word, the Bible. The Spirit revealed truths to the Bible authors that they could not understand on their own. Revelation is the truth imparted by the Spirit, while inspiration describes how the Spirit moved people to communicate that truth through their own words. The Bible authors expressed the truths according to their contexts, but the Spirit ensured their writings were reliable and trustworthy. While their writing processes differed, the Spirit always guided them to explain God's thoughts accurately. The Spirit continues guiding people into understanding the doctrinal truths of the Bible so they can know God and be saved. If a teaching contradicts the Bible, it cannot be from the Spirit.
Este documento define el equilibrio como la capacidad de mantener una posición corporal equilibrada sin caerse. Explica que existen dos tipos de equilibrio: estático, manteniendo una posición fija, y dinámico, realizando movimientos. Los factores que condicionan el equilibrio son el centro de gravedad, la base de sustentación y la proyección del centro de gravedad sobre la base. También señala que el oído interno, la planta de los pies y la vista proporcionan información corporal sobre el
La guía didáctica presenta la serie Click @ctivo Primaria, la cual propicia el desarrollo de conocimientos y habilidades relacionadas con la computadora, Windows 7, Office 2010 y navegadores de Internet. La guía incluye información sobre la serie, sugerencias didácticas para las lecciones y recursos en el CD interactivo y la página web www.clickactivo.com.
Este caso clínico describe a un niño de 3 años con epispadias, queratodermia palmo-plantar y otros antecedentes. Se realizó una ureteroplastia con técnica de Cantwell-Ramsley para corregir el epispadias a los 19 meses, y se le da seguimiento dermatológico y urológico. El documento también revisa las características del epispadias, la hipospadias y la queratodermia palmo-plantar.
Un estudio de intervención, también llamado estudio experimental, es un estudio epidemiológico, analítico, prospectivo, caracterizado por la manipulación artificial del factor de estudio por el investigador y por la aleatorización. es una herramienta util y basica que ayudara al estudiante a interpretar los calculos en un diseño experimental.
This synthesis review, prepared with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation,
is a companion report to the evaluation of the Foundation’s work on African
Agriculture Resilience (AAR) and Carbon for Poverty Reduction (CPR). The synthesis
review seeks to identify lessons from a broad range of efforts to build climate resilient
agriculture and reduce poverty through carbon markets in Africa. The Rockefeller
Foundation and its grantees and partners are interested in learning not only from the
Foundation’s work but from the work of others, in order to gain a better understanding
of what constitutes successful activities for building climate resilient agriculture
and what works and does not work in carbon projects for poverty reduction in the
agricultural sector.
Agriculture continues to play a key role in the formal economies and in sustaining
local livelihoods in Africa. Climate change, in combination with widespread levels of
poverty and food insecurity, could potentially have large impacts on the well-being of
smallholder farmers and economic growth in the region. Climate resilient agricultural
development and carbon markets for poverty reduction are rapidly emerging as key
issues for development policy and practice. In ensuring that African agriculture is
resilient to the changing climate, it has become imperative to protect livelihoods and
to reduce food insecurity. At the same time, the emerging market for carbon may offer
new possibilities for agriculture to benefit from land use management practices that
sequester carbon, which could, in turn, contribute to poverty reduction.
The report first briefly introduces current debates surrounding AAR and CPR. In spite
of wide agreement about the need for AAR and CPR efforts in the region, determining
the best ways to approach them remains a contentious and uncertain challenge. The
report also examines ongoing AAR- and CPR-type work in the region, based on a rapid
desk-based screening of existing programs and projects, and on analyses available in
the public domain. Tables 1 and 2 summarize reviewed practices, key findings and
early lessons for reviewed adaptation and carbon activities, respectively.
The goals of the Paris Agreement cannot be met without transformative changes in the agriculture sector.
Learn more: https://www.wri.org/events/2020/04/webinar-enhancing-ndcs-agriculture-sector
Introduction to the NAP and NAMA processes and the relation to climate financeFAO
National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) are two processes introduced by the UNFCCC for developing countries to plan and implement climate adaptation and mitigation actions. FAO is working with countries to integrate agriculture into NAPs and identify NAMAs in the agriculture sector. International climate finance can help support NAP and NAMA implementation through funds like the Green Climate Fund. Private sector engagement and investment is important for NAMAs to be sustainable and leverage additional financing.
1) The webinar discusses measuring the impact of investments on biodiversity, featuring speakers from the Dutch government, a consulting firm, a biodiversity reserve company, and the Global Reporting Initiative.
2) Key topics included a new Dutch policy vision for nature-positive investments, the importance of 2020 for biodiversity commitments, and tools for assessing the biodiversity footprint and impacts of financial institutions and their portfolios.
3) Speakers also discussed how carbon is connected to biodiversity loss, the need to move beyond exclusion criteria to biodiversity-positive investments, and examples of biodiversity accounting.
Advancing CAADP Implementation: Key results and impactFARAInfo
CAADP (Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme) has led to gains in several areas over the past 10 years, but challenges remain. Key results include growing political commitment to agriculture, better strategic planning, and increased production and productivity in some commodities. However, stakeholders note issues like weak coordination, a focus on supply over markets, and the need for immediate action on food needs. Going forward, sustaining CAADP's momentum will require addressing poverty, hunger, and youth unemployment through policies that boost wealth creation, regional trade, and private investment in agriculture. Impact will be measured through changes in agricultural systems, productivity, and economic growth and development.
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) aims to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes, build resilience to climate change, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Recent UNFCCC negotiations have highlighted CSA. Key actions to implement CSA include expanding the evidence base on impacts and options, supporting enabling policies, strengthening institutions, enhancing financing, and implementing practices locally. FAO promotes CSA through projects, the Global Alliance, and practices like crop diversification, alternate wetting and drying of rice, and early warning systems.
Este documento es una reflexión sobre el trabajo final realizado por Edver Alejandro Cisneros Soto. Resume que adquirió nuevos conocimientos sobre organizadores digitales que podrá aplicar en su práctica docente para beneficiar a sus estudiantes. Identifica haber participado activamente en el foro y que puede mejorar comunicándose más con sus colegas. También reconoce las ventajas de utilizar organizadores digitales en lugar de formatos en papel, incluyendo que es más entretenido y dinámico y permite el uso de recursos digitales
El documento presenta principios y estrategias metodológicas para enseñar y aprender de manera efectiva. Se enfatiza comenzar desde el nivel de desarrollo del estudiante, promover un aprendizaje significativo y activo, e individualizar y socializar la enseñanza. También recomienda utilizar materiales curriculares realistas y flexibles, diseñar actividades que motiven a los estudiantes y desarrollen sus habilidades a través de enfoques interdisciplinarios y contextualizados.
Foro primer bloque teoria de la seguridadMao Sierra
Las organizaciones han identificado nuevos riesgos relacionados con la seguridad de la información como ataques a hardware y firmware, ransomware, dispositivos wearables sin protección, automóviles conectados, almacenes de datos robados, ataques a través de empleados y servicios en la nube. Han dado una alta importancia a la seguridad de la información para mitigar estos riesgos y proteger sus sistemas e información confidencial. La seguridad de la información es fundamental para ayudar a las organizaciones a cumplir sus objetivos estrat
Este regulamento descreve o projeto educativo Missão POWER UP, que promove a eficiência energética nas escolas portuguesas. As escolas formam equipas multidisciplinares que devem diagnosticar o consumo de energia e implementar ações para o reduzir, concorrendo a prémios. O regulamento define os prazos, critérios de avaliação e prémios do concurso.
Este documento presenta un tema sobre la producción agrícola en las regiones del Perú. Incluye actividades para calcular precios de venta luego de aumentos sucesivos, así como modelar aumentos y descuentos. Se pide determinar el precio final de varios productos luego de que mayoristas y minoristas apliquen aumentos porcentuales sucesivos, y resolver problemas sobre aumentos y descuentos múltiples.
This document discusses land restoration and forest landscape restoration efforts in Africa. It provides examples of farmer-managed natural regeneration projects across 22 African countries that have committed to restoring over 59 million hectares of degraded land. These projects include regenerating trees on croplands, parklands, rangelands, and grazing lands. The document advocates for scaling up these types of restoration projects using approaches like evergreen agriculture that integrate trees into agricultural systems. The goal is to enable every farm family and village in Africa's drylands to practice farmer-managed natural regeneration by 2025 to combat land degradation and food insecurity.
Este documento presenta información sobre el Impuesto General a las Ventas (IGV) en Perú. Explica que el IGV representa el 18% del precio de venta de bienes y servicios. También cubre cómo calcular el precio con IGV a partir del precio sin IGV, y a la inversa. Además, detalla que el 2% de lo recaudado por el IGV se destina al Fondo de Compensación Municipal. El documento contiene ejercicios para practicar cálculos relacionados con el IGV.
Pre encoded multipliers based on non-redundant radix-4 signed-digit encodingPvrtechnologies Nellore
This paper introduces an architecture for pre-encoded multipliers used in digital signal processing based on offline encoding of coefficients using a non-redundant radix-4 signed-digit encoding technique. Experimental analysis shows the proposed multipliers using this encoding technique, along with a coefficients memory, are more efficient in terms of area and power compared to conventional Modified Booth encoding schemes.
The Holy Spirit is the revealer and inspirer of God's written Word, the Bible. The Spirit revealed truths to the Bible authors that they could not understand on their own. Revelation is the truth imparted by the Spirit, while inspiration describes how the Spirit moved people to communicate that truth through their own words. The Bible authors expressed the truths according to their contexts, but the Spirit ensured their writings were reliable and trustworthy. While their writing processes differed, the Spirit always guided them to explain God's thoughts accurately. The Spirit continues guiding people into understanding the doctrinal truths of the Bible so they can know God and be saved. If a teaching contradicts the Bible, it cannot be from the Spirit.
Este documento define el equilibrio como la capacidad de mantener una posición corporal equilibrada sin caerse. Explica que existen dos tipos de equilibrio: estático, manteniendo una posición fija, y dinámico, realizando movimientos. Los factores que condicionan el equilibrio son el centro de gravedad, la base de sustentación y la proyección del centro de gravedad sobre la base. También señala que el oído interno, la planta de los pies y la vista proporcionan información corporal sobre el
La guía didáctica presenta la serie Click @ctivo Primaria, la cual propicia el desarrollo de conocimientos y habilidades relacionadas con la computadora, Windows 7, Office 2010 y navegadores de Internet. La guía incluye información sobre la serie, sugerencias didácticas para las lecciones y recursos en el CD interactivo y la página web www.clickactivo.com.
Este caso clínico describe a un niño de 3 años con epispadias, queratodermia palmo-plantar y otros antecedentes. Se realizó una ureteroplastia con técnica de Cantwell-Ramsley para corregir el epispadias a los 19 meses, y se le da seguimiento dermatológico y urológico. El documento también revisa las características del epispadias, la hipospadias y la queratodermia palmo-plantar.
Un estudio de intervención, también llamado estudio experimental, es un estudio epidemiológico, analítico, prospectivo, caracterizado por la manipulación artificial del factor de estudio por el investigador y por la aleatorización. es una herramienta util y basica que ayudara al estudiante a interpretar los calculos en un diseño experimental.
This synthesis review, prepared with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation,
is a companion report to the evaluation of the Foundation’s work on African
Agriculture Resilience (AAR) and Carbon for Poverty Reduction (CPR). The synthesis
review seeks to identify lessons from a broad range of efforts to build climate resilient
agriculture and reduce poverty through carbon markets in Africa. The Rockefeller
Foundation and its grantees and partners are interested in learning not only from the
Foundation’s work but from the work of others, in order to gain a better understanding
of what constitutes successful activities for building climate resilient agriculture
and what works and does not work in carbon projects for poverty reduction in the
agricultural sector.
Agriculture continues to play a key role in the formal economies and in sustaining
local livelihoods in Africa. Climate change, in combination with widespread levels of
poverty and food insecurity, could potentially have large impacts on the well-being of
smallholder farmers and economic growth in the region. Climate resilient agricultural
development and carbon markets for poverty reduction are rapidly emerging as key
issues for development policy and practice. In ensuring that African agriculture is
resilient to the changing climate, it has become imperative to protect livelihoods and
to reduce food insecurity. At the same time, the emerging market for carbon may offer
new possibilities for agriculture to benefit from land use management practices that
sequester carbon, which could, in turn, contribute to poverty reduction.
The report first briefly introduces current debates surrounding AAR and CPR. In spite
of wide agreement about the need for AAR and CPR efforts in the region, determining
the best ways to approach them remains a contentious and uncertain challenge. The
report also examines ongoing AAR- and CPR-type work in the region, based on a rapid
desk-based screening of existing programs and projects, and on analyses available in
the public domain. Tables 1 and 2 summarize reviewed practices, key findings and
early lessons for reviewed adaptation and carbon activities, respectively.
The goals of the Paris Agreement cannot be met without transformative changes in the agriculture sector.
Learn more: https://www.wri.org/events/2020/04/webinar-enhancing-ndcs-agriculture-sector
Introduction to the NAP and NAMA processes and the relation to climate financeFAO
National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) are two processes introduced by the UNFCCC for developing countries to plan and implement climate adaptation and mitigation actions. FAO is working with countries to integrate agriculture into NAPs and identify NAMAs in the agriculture sector. International climate finance can help support NAP and NAMA implementation through funds like the Green Climate Fund. Private sector engagement and investment is important for NAMAs to be sustainable and leverage additional financing.
1) The webinar discusses measuring the impact of investments on biodiversity, featuring speakers from the Dutch government, a consulting firm, a biodiversity reserve company, and the Global Reporting Initiative.
2) Key topics included a new Dutch policy vision for nature-positive investments, the importance of 2020 for biodiversity commitments, and tools for assessing the biodiversity footprint and impacts of financial institutions and their portfolios.
3) Speakers also discussed how carbon is connected to biodiversity loss, the need to move beyond exclusion criteria to biodiversity-positive investments, and examples of biodiversity accounting.
Advancing CAADP Implementation: Key results and impactFARAInfo
CAADP (Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme) has led to gains in several areas over the past 10 years, but challenges remain. Key results include growing political commitment to agriculture, better strategic planning, and increased production and productivity in some commodities. However, stakeholders note issues like weak coordination, a focus on supply over markets, and the need for immediate action on food needs. Going forward, sustaining CAADP's momentum will require addressing poverty, hunger, and youth unemployment through policies that boost wealth creation, regional trade, and private investment in agriculture. Impact will be measured through changes in agricultural systems, productivity, and economic growth and development.
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) aims to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes, build resilience to climate change, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Recent UNFCCC negotiations have highlighted CSA. Key actions to implement CSA include expanding the evidence base on impacts and options, supporting enabling policies, strengthening institutions, enhancing financing, and implementing practices locally. FAO promotes CSA through projects, the Global Alliance, and practices like crop diversification, alternate wetting and drying of rice, and early warning systems.
Title: Bridging Science and Local Communities for Sustainable Agriculture
Description: This presentation explores the potential of bridging the gap between the scientific community and local communities, with a focus on farmer organizations and the utilization of local resources in Egypt. It discusses the impact of climate change on agriculture and the implementation rate of new adaptation solutions among large producers and smallholder farmers. The presentation aims to highlight the importance of leveraging scientific research and local knowledge to ensure that interventions are not only scientifically sound but also culturally appropriate and economically viable. It underscores the need for a more inclusive, effective, and sustainable path towards agricultural advancement. This presentation is intended for researchers interested in sustainable agriculture, climate change adaptation, and community-based solutions. It also provides insights into the work of EASD, an NGO actively seeking scientific partners for implementing sustainable agricultural practices.
Innovation in agriculture in response to climate change: Towards a global act...GCARD Conferences
This document summarizes a presentation on investing in agricultural research for sustainable development in Asia-Pacific. It discusses the challenges posed by climate change, including risks to food security. It proposes a Global Action Plan for Agricultural Diversification to increase crop diversity beyond the top four crops and encourage shorter, higher-value supply chains to maintain nutrition under climate change. The plan would be launched at COP21 through a "Paris Declaration" and further developed at conferences in 2016 to establish GAPAD as a framework involving all stakeholders. The overall goal is climate-smart agriculture to ensure food security with limited warming.
Addressing agriculture, forestry and fisheries in national adaptation plans FAO
- The world's population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, boosting agricultural demand by 50% compared to 2013 levels. Around 700 million people remain in extreme poverty and 800 million are chronically hungry.
- The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process was established in 2010 to help countries develop strategies to address medium and long-term adaptation needs. Key outcomes from COP23 included establishing a Gender Action Plan and recognizing agriculture's role in adaptation.
- The Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans flagship programme supports 11 countries to identify climate adaptation measures for agriculture in national plans and budgets through the NAP formulation and implementation process.
This document outlines a research and knowledge agenda for Finland's blue bioeconomy. It defines the blue bioeconomy as business activities and value creation based on sustainable use of aquatic resources. The agenda's objectives are to strengthen research supporting business growth and ensure continuous dialogue between stakeholders. It identifies six UN Sustainable Development Goals as a foundation and focuses research on areas like sustainable food production, clean water, climate change, and health/wellbeing. The agenda also discusses conditions needed for business growth and proposes continuing stakeholder collaboration to implement and update the agenda.
Leading restoration and climate resilience experts share how entrepreneurs in Africa are leading the restoration movement, creating jobs, and making their communities more resilient to climate change.
Presentation by Dr Joyce Mitti from FAO Zimbabwe, at the Regional planning meeting on ‘Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa – Building partnership for successful implementation’,13–15 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa
Presentation by Dr Olu Ajayi from CTA, at the Regional planning meeting on ‘Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa – Building partnership for successful implementation’,13–15 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa
climate-change-and-its-challenges-for-agriculture-and-food-security---essc-pr...Anwaar Ahmed
The document summarizes a presentation on climate change challenges for agriculture and food security. It discusses how agriculture is both impacted by and contributes to climate change. While some deny the science, climate change is already harming Malawi where most depend on rain-fed agriculture. The international response includes UN climate conferences (COPs) and the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aimed to limit warming but did not explicitly mention agriculture. The implications for smallholders vary from hopeful to critical, depending on implementation of financing pledges. Overall, climate change threatens food production, and concerted global action is needed to support farmers' adaptation.
climate-change-and-its-challenges-for-agriculture-and-food-security---essc-pr...Anwaar Ahmed
This document summarizes a presentation on climate change challenges for agriculture and food security. It discusses how agriculture is both impacted by and contributes to climate change. While some deny the science, climate change is already affecting Malawi through shifting rainfall patterns and more extreme weather. The international response began with the UNFCCC and annual COP meetings. COP21 in Paris achieved the first universal climate agreement to limit warming to well below 2°C. However, the final agreement only indirectly referenced agriculture. The implications for smallholders vary from hopeful to critical, depending on implementation of financing for adaptation. In conclusion, climate change threatens food production and all should support mitigation and adaptation efforts to ensure sustainable and resilient agriculture.
"Challenges, opportunities and priorities for transitioning to low emissions agriculture" was presented by Lini Wollenberg at a NUI Galway seminar on January 30, 2020.
1. Tree-soil-crop interactions in rubber agroforestry systems can be managed at the plot, farm, and landscape levels. At the plot level, a mixed-age stand can be maintained for cash flow while diversifying. At the farm level, credit can cover replanting costs until cash flow is positive. At the landscape level, policy harmonization across forest and agriculture is important.
2. Agroforestry is understood as applying at the plot, landscape, and governance levels, reflecting the interface of agriculture and forestry. It involves tree-soil-crop-livestock interactions as well as interactions between tree cover, livelihoods, and ecosystem services across landscapes.
3. Rubber
The DryDev programme aimed to transform lives and landscapes in dryland areas through sustainable rural development. Over six years, it worked with over 164,000 smallholder farmers across five countries in Africa. Key achievements included rehabilitating over 163,000 hectares of land through watershed management and planting over 4.6 million trees. It also increased food security and incomes by expanding irrigation to over 16,000 hectares, utilizing over 950 water harvesting structures, and promoting climate-smart agricultural practices on over 60,000 hectares.
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Forest and agroforesty options for building resilience in refugee situations:...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
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HLPE 2019. Agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition. A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security, Rome
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An increasing multitude of insect pests and pathogens is targeting indigenous trees of natural forests, agroforestry systems, and exotic trees in planted forests in Africa. This is raising major concerns for a continent already challenged by adaptations to climate change, as it threatens a vital resource for food security of rural communities, economic growth, and ecosystem conservation. The accidental introduction through trade of non‐native species in particular is accelerating, and it adds to the damage to tree‐based landscapes by native pests and diseases. Old‐time and new invaders heavily impact planted forests of exotic eucalypts, pines, and acacias, and are spreading quickly across African regions. But many non‐native pathogens are recently found affecting important indigenous trees.
Species distribution modelling is being used to map the habitats of over 150 priority African plant species. More advanced modelling methods are being used to reduce bias, including spatial folding and thinning. Presence observations from across Africa are being used to calibrate provisional distribution models for individual species in countries like Ethiopia. The results will then be verified by botanists and combined with vegetation mapping data.
Not all roads lead to Rome: Inclusive business models and responsible finance...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
The document discusses approaches to achieving sustainable cocoa production in Ghana by 2020. It identifies several challenges in the cocoa sector including low productivity, rural poverty, and deforestation. It analyzes different stakeholder approaches and finds they mainly focus on increased productivity, while social and environmental issues are addressed less. Inclusive business models include many smallholder farmers but benefits are not always equitable. Responsible finance from impact investors and social lenders has potential to leverage more equitable models and landscape restoration, but investments have not been well adapted for cocoa sectors. A "multi-chain approach" is proposed to better leverage finance through a portfolio of value chains at the landscape level.
Decent work and economic growth: Potential impacts of SDG 8 on forests and fo...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
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Forest conservation and socio-economic benefits through community forest conc...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
With an extension of 2.1 million ha, the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) in Petén, Guatemala is the largest protected area in Central America. To reconcile forest conservation and socio-economic development, community forest concessions were created in its Multiple Use Zone (MUZ) in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Operated by a community forest enterprise (CFE), and with a cycle of 25 years, the concessions grant usufruct rights to local communities on an area of about 400,000 ha. Currently, nine concessions are active, while the contracts of two concessions were cancelled and the management plan of another suspended.
Sustainable land management for improved livelihoods and environmental sustai...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
A healthy viable multifunctional landscape has the capability of supporting sustainable agricultural productivity, providing agroforestry and forest products (timber, fuel wood, fruits, medicine, fertilizer, gum etc.) for the sustenance of mankind while providing other environmental services. However these products are increasingly becoming unavailable due to declining soil fertility, climatic extremes, and high costs of inputs. Identifying low-cost, sustainable ways to attain food security and sustainable environment for millions of smallholder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) remains a major developmental challenge.
Rangelands are more than just grass but rather complex and biodiverse ecosystems. Covering nearly half the world’s land area, they are in need of restoration and sustainable management.
The document discusses several projects aimed at improving agricultural outcomes through agroforestry. It describes a project in Uganda that introduced fodder shrubs to improve milk yields, which increased yields significantly. It is now scaling this approach in Kenya and Malawi through farmer cooperatives. Another project aims to better understand farmers' livelihood aspirations to customize technologies to their goals. A final project focuses on improving diets and health through diversifying crops and developing new food value chains. The document emphasizes the need for meaningful diagnosis, strong intervention design, credible evidence gathering, and efficient delivery to accelerate research impact on poverty, food insecurity, and environmental issues.
1) The document discusses watershed development projects in India, focusing on the state of Uttar Pradesh. It outlines the history and increasing scale of watershed programs in India over time from the 1960s to present.
2) Key data presented includes groundwater usage increasing dramatically from 25 km3 in 1960 to 250-300 km3 in 2009, and the number of bore wells increasing from 1 million to 20 million over the same period. Watershed programs have led to increased benefit-cost ratios, rates of return, and agricultural incomes.
3) The document then focuses on the Doubling Farmers' Income project targeting watershed interventions across several districts in Bundelkhand region of UP. It outlines strategies
NRM Innovations for Risk Management and Agricultural Transformation in Semiar...World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
This document summarizes natural resource management innovations in semi-arid East African highlands. It discusses (1) managing extreme events like drought and flood to ensure sustainable ecosystem services and support livelihoods, (2) increasing and sustaining agricultural productivity through investments in NRM, and (3) two examples of NRM innovations - community-based watershed management in Ethiopia and using water spreading weirs to build resilience to climate risks in Ethiopia through a partnership between GIZ, ICRISAT, and local universities. The document also discusses the impacts of these innovations, including increased food security, higher crop yields, and institutional impacts like the site becoming a learning center that influenced regional soil and water conservation policies.
This document discusses land restoration efforts in Niger. It describes the land degradation issues facing the West Africa Sahel region due to fragile ecosystems and unsustainable agricultural practices. Various integrated land management techniques are being implemented and tested, including Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), cereal/legume intercropping, microdosing of fertilizers, and restoring degraded lands. These techniques are improving soil fertility and crop yields when combined. The document outlines several partnerships working to scale these efforts across Niger, including restoring over 175 hectares of degraded land managed by 11,970 women generating more income. There is growing demand from farmers and partners to expand training and testing of integrated packages to improve livelihoods and food security.
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2. New financial models, public-private coalitions, result-
based payments to reach scale and impact.
9:00-11:45: Launch of Dialogue
• Framing of the Dialogue
• Opening statements
• Challenge Interventions
• Showcase examples
10:40-11:00: Brief remarks from key thought leaders
10:40-11:15: Break and Networking
11:15-13:00: Investment Prospects and closing thoughts
13:00-14:00: Lunch
Measuring and monitoring performance through result-
based models
14:00-15:00: Workshops
• Workshop 1: Carbon & water measurement through farming
practices
• Workshop 2: Up-scaling climate-smart dairy solutions
• Workshop 3: Monitoring farmers’ empowerment and the role
of women
15:00-16:00: Plenary session
AGENDA
MORNING SESSION AFTERNOON SESSION
FAMILY FARMING
SUSTAINABLE SOURCING
LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT
3. FRAMING OF THE DIALOGUE
Tony Simons
Director General of ICRAF
Bernard Giraud
President of Livelihoods Venture
4. 750 expert respondents
Business, Government, Civil Society
Revealed 29 Key Global Risks
Risks in 5 categories:
- Economic risks
- Environmental risks
- Geo-political risks
- Social risks
- Technological risks
Looks at:
(a) past trends
(b) current risks, and
(c) 10 year forward horizon
5.
6. Whilst risks are important ………
What about opportunities?
- how can we use performance metrics to drive positive change?
7. ACTOR Risks Rewards
Small-holder Farmers
NGOs, CBOs
Input Suppliers
Product Off-takers
Service Off-takers
Processors, Retailers
Sub-national Authorities
National Governments
Consumers
Investors, Financers
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19. AAA Presentation for NY v18Sept16v2.pptx 19
After COP21 success in Paris, high expectations for Marrakesh COP22,
especially for Africa
COP21 : a historic milestone in the fight
against climate change
COP22 : strong expectations to make it a
"COP for action" but also a "COP for Africa"
Translate the progress achieved in Paris into
reality
Target to limit global warming to 2°C officially
adopted with aim for 1.5°C
At least $100 B / year to support developing
countries
Pledge from developed countries
Place the most vulnerable regions, especially
Africa at the core of the negotiations
Despite mentions of food security for the first time in the Paris Agreement, Agriculture has
never been discussed as a solution in climate negotiations
20. AAA Presentation for NY v18Sept16v2.pptx 20
Agriculture Features Very Prominently in the INDCs of African Countries
A majority of African countries included agriculture both under Adaptation and Mitigation in the INDCs,
covering both cropping and livestock systems.
21. AAA Presentation for NY v18Sept16v2.pptx 21
Climate Change Impacts on Agricultural Productivity Are Likely to Be
Strongly Negative Overall – and African Agriculture Highly Vulnerable
Source: UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library, Wheeler 2011
Projected Changes in Agricultural Productivity by 2080 Global Ranking of Vulnerability to Losses
in Agricultural Productivity
Agricultural productivity will come under pressure from
Climate Change, with large parts of Africa expected to
experience downward yield pressure of above 15%.
When factoring in vulnerability and coping capacity into
expected losses in agricultural productivity, African
countries rank among the most vulnerable.
22. Initiative for the
Adaptation of the African Agriculture
to Climate Change
("AAA")
IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY + REDUCE
VULNERABILITES + ENHANCE RESILIENCE+
MANAGE NATURAL RESOURCES MORE
SUSTAINABLY
23. AAA Presentation for NY v18Sept16v2.pptx 23
"AAA” Initiative is the drive to enhance the
Adaptation of African Agriculture
I
A stronger collective voice for
the adaptation of African
agriculture to climate change
Increased funding
I.1
Simplified access to climate
funds
I.3
Climate funds monitoring
I.2
Advocacy Solutions
Contribute to the Global
Climate Action Agenda and
support "AAA" projects
II
Agricultural Water
management
II.2
Climate risk management
II.3
Financing solutions
II.4
Soils management
II.1
Leverage the Instruments recommended by the UNFCCC
Technology
transfers
Capacity building
South-South
cooperation
"AAA"
24. AAA Presentation for NY v18Sept16v2.pptx 24
The "AAA" Initiative echoes the commitments
made by African Leaders
The Abidjan
Declaration
The Dakar Conference
The Comprehensive
Africa Agricultural
Development Program
The Adaptation
in Africa Initiative
Ensuring resilient agricultural
development in Africa
Putting agriculture at the
center of African public
policies
Defining a roadmap for the
transformation of agriculture
in Africa
April 2016
2003
(Maputo Declaration)
October 2015Announced in Dec. 2015
Ensuring resilient economic
development for Africa,
notably in the agricultural
sector
5 key principles
• Enable African ownership
and leadership
• Ensure accountability and
transparency
• Ensure inclusion
• Leverage regional
complementarities
• Evidence-based planning
and decision making
processes
5 priorities:
• Set up multiple nutrition
programs
• Improve agricultural
productivity
• Develop agricultural
activities (value chain
approach)
• Increase funding for
agriculture
• Support the inclusion of
women and young people
4 main objectives
• Scale-up adaptation-related
activities in Africa
• Policy and institutional
capacity building
• Increase investments and
funding
• Improve climate
information services
3 opportunities for action
• Build Governments'
capacities
• Develop climate resilient
agricultural policies
• Reinforce financial and
technical support to
adaptation
African initiatives for agriculture and adaptation Political statements for agriculture and adaptation in Africa
25. AAA Presentation for NY v18Sept16v2.pptx 25
The "AAA" initiative contributes to the achievement of
Sustainable Development Goals
Core
Strong
link
Indirect link
Increase of
farmers revenues
Food security for
all
Better nutrition
Impact on
education in rural
areas
Impact on women
employment and
education
Multiplier effect of
agricultural GNP
on the economy
South-South
cooperation
and PPP
Limitation of
rural exodus
Improved
agricultural
water mngt
Mitigation and
adaptation to CC
Soils, forests and
natural
ecosystems
conservation
Governance
capacity building
Technical and
financial
innovations
Improved
standards of living
in rural areas
Sustainability of
agricultural output
26. AAA Presentation for NY v18Sept16v2.pptx 26
The "AAA" initiative will be fostered by a global alliance at
COP22
African
Governments
Development
Finance Institutions
Scientific
Community
NGOs &
Corporate
(projects holders)
The syndication process is ongoing – additional supports are still being rallied
Gambia
Guinea
Conakry
Lesotho Mali Mozambique NigerMauritania
Equatorial
Guinea
Nigeria Senegal
South
Soudan
Seychelles TogoRwanda Swaziland
Sao
Tomé
EgyptBenin
Burkina
Faso
Burundi
Central
African Rep.
Ivory
Coast
GabonCameroon
Cape
Verde
29. CHALLENGE INTERVENTIONS
P29
Prof. Judi Wakhungu
Minister of Environment of Kenya
Emmanuel Faber
CEO of Danone Group
Mette Wilkie
Director, Division of Environmental
Policy Implementation, UNEP
32. P32
THE LIVELIHOODS MOUNT ELGON PROJECT
An innovative partnership and investment model
• Improve the livelihood of 30,000 farmers and their families
• Create economic value for the market and the local economy
• Increase the resilience of the natural ecosystem
33. A coalition between an impact investment Fund, an NGO and a dairy company
THE LIVELIHOODS MOUNT ELGON PROJECT
P33
Bernard Giraud
President of Livelihoods
Wangu Mutua
Deputy Regional Director
John Gethi
Director of Milk Procurement
34. Why is it so difficult to make them sustainable?
INVESTMENT IN FAMILY FARMING
P34
Complexity of projects;
Aggregating farmers
Time lag between investments
and ROI
Narrow approach; focus on
one aspect of supply chain
ROI not at market standards
TODAY’S MAIN
CHALLENGES
Create a coalition between
private/public sector/NGOs
Create a financial vehicle with
long-term investment
Holistic approach focusing on
the wider ecosystem
Results-based approach
TOMORROW’S
OPPORTUNITIES
36. IMPROVE LIVELIHOODS
Increase yields and revenues
for 30,000 farmers
Economy, Social and Environment are inter-connected
THE LIVELIHOODS MOUNT ELGON PROJECT
P36
PRESERVE WATER
RESOURCES
Preserve watershed and Lake
Victoria with Government
SECURE MILK SOURCING
Extend milk collection area
with good quality and high
volumes for Brookside Dairy
MILK PRODUCTION
From 5,000 to 135,000l
in 5 years
FARMERS
+ Milk revenue
+30% food and cash crops
WATER
Preserve watershed &
reduce soil erosion
CLIMATE
1 million t CO2 seq. in soil and
cow farms
37. • Efficient agroforestry model
• Affordable and replicable techniques
• Farmers are the key actors: 1200 groups
• Structured approach to project management
and monitoring
Key learning
Cooperation with an investment fund and the
private sector required mutual understanding and
trust building
The key role of an NGO : VI Agroforestry implements the project
THE MOUNT ELGON COALITION
P37
38. • Investments in milk collection and storage
• Commitment to purchase all milk
• Milk processing
Key learning
Working at farm level is a key lever to increase
productivity and farmer revenue: this is what the
Mt Elgon project is about
Leverage market power : Brookside collects milk and supports cooperatives
THE MOUNT ELGON COALITION
P38
39. • Up-front financing
• Return on investment: carbon revenue and fees
on milk production
• Impact measurement
Key learning
Quality of project partners and alignment on
objectives are a key success factor
A result-based model : Livelihoods Fund invests and co-designs
THE MOUNT ELGON COALITION
P39
40. LIVELIHOODS FUNDS
P40
GUATEMALA
• Agroforestry
PERU
• Efficient cookstoves
KENYA
• Milk
• Agroforestry
• Efficient cookstoves
SENEGAL
• Mangroves
INDONESIA
• Palm oil
• Agroforestry
INDIA
• Mint
• Agroforestry
• Mangroves
BURKINA FASO
• Efficient cookstoves
• Agroforestry
IVORY COAST
• Cocoa
MADAGASCAR
• Vanilla
MEXICO
• Sugar
• Watershed
BRAZIL
• Watershed
MOROCCO
• Milk
41. LIVEHOODS VENTURE
48,50 RUE DE LA VICTOIRE
75009 PARIS
More on
www.livehoods.eu
@livelih00ds
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THE LIVELIHOODS MOUNT ELGON PROJECT
www.livelihoods.eu
44. Northern Rangelands Trading Limited
Overview of GrazingWORKS
Garry Cullen, CEO
Patrick Ekodere, GrazingWORKS Director
INVESTING IN PERFORMANCE
ICRAF CAMPUS, NAIROBI, KENYA
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
44
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Pastoralist survival in Northern Kenya
Issues:
• Insecurity
• Few sources of formal commercial income
• Land degradation from overgrazing
• Few and far off markets
• Cyclic drought
Resulting in:
• Poverty rate ranging from 72% to 83%
• Malnutrition
Populated by communities that depend on livestock for survival
46. 46
The birth of a revolutionary idea 12 years ago....
Northern Rangelands Trust
• 33 conservancies formed
• 43,900 km2 covered
Conservancies bring:
• Structure and governance
• Peace and Stability
• Dignity to the people
48. 48
The need to provide a commercial outlet to the
conservancies led to the creation of NRTT
NRT Trading’s purpose is to identify, incubate, pilot and scale sustainable
businesses within the NRT Conservancies.
1) We incubate and run businesses that make a profit and enable
Conservancies to access markets (GrazingWORKS, BeadWORKS)
2) We enable the Conservancies and their people to start and run
their own businesses and earn an income (Tourism, Saccos, etc)
49. 49
The main resource that communities needed
assistance with was their cattle
• Limited access to markets with long journeys and frustration
• Need for diversification of income
• Grazing management plans to increase grass available
50. 50
The GrazingWORKS Business creates markets for
Conservancy cattle
• We purchase cattle from conservancies, fatten them and deliver
them to market
• Inculcate market based production and marketing
• Conservancies are paid a premium of KES 3000 per animal purchased
for development works
• We work with NRT to create grazing plans in the conservancies
51. 51
Jan 2015 to date, we have contributed to all levels
of the local economy
• Pastoralists:
•3,600+ sellers and 21,000+
indirect beneficiaries
• KES 160 million+ in cattle
purchased
• Contributions to Conservancies:
KES 14 million+
• County Governments (Cess): KES 2
million+
• Cattle sales: KES 100 million+
• Introduced SACCOs and savings
facilities
52. 52
Challenges we have met along the way
Mindset that cattle are
the only measurement
of wealth.
Needs to change to
allow their income to
diversify
Marketing and disease
challenges
Diminishing grass and
vegetation cover
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There is a lot of scope for improvement
Increase the
throughput of cattle
Change mindset from
quantity to quality
Animal husbandry and
disease diagnosis
Integration of morans
into economic system
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All this has been made possible by the support of
The Nature Conservancy
USAid
County governments and Samburu, Isiolo, Marsabit and Laikipia
The National Government
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The future holds promise
We would like to explore :
• Large scale storage of feed for drought mitigation
• Establishment of grassbanks
• Creation of export markets for the cattle
Welcome the government, and all stakeholders to engage
with us
Thank You!
57. LEVERAGE MARKET
CONNECTION & INCLUSIVE
DEVELOPMENT
How to leverage connection to
markets to create mutual value for
both smallholder farmers and the
private sector?
BREAK THE SILOS
What are the key success factors
and the challenges for efficient
coalitions between the private
sector, NGOs and governments?
How to join forces, combine
resources and skills to design,
implement and monitor impactful
projects.
MORE FOR A BUCK
How to develop new financial
models mixing private and public
funding ? From impact investing to
result-based payment to hybrid
financing, what are the key
conditions to encourage those new
models?
INVESTMENT PROSPECTS
Groups 1 & 2 Groups 3 & 4 Groups 5 & 6
The tree cover on agric land varies. We know that part of that is related to population and aridity. But still within any pop and aridity class there is much variation, from zero to high. As the high values occur, they are clearly feasible as far as the factors consider so far are concerned. Hence we map them. Actually we take the 80% point of the distribution – ‘high’ means the tree cover that only 20% of pixels with in that class exceeds.
Wangu
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Challenges in the Mt Elgon area
Environmentally, the Mt Elgon are faces several challenges. Climate change is one of the largest threats to development in Eastern Africa and the small-holder farmers in Mt Elgon are severely affected through unreliable rainfall and prolonged dry periods. Additionally, the area is challenged by deforestation, inefficient agricultural practices, uncontrolled grazing and soil erosion. This has a direct impact on local biodiversity and soil fertility which effect the small-holder farmers yields. But it also threatens the watersheds and the ecosystem of Lake Victoria as a huge quantity of sediment are carried by rivers. (show example on left side of illustration)
Socially, the farmers in the area are struggling with low crop yields and milk production as low as 3 l per day due to lack of nutritious feed and water and low producing breeds. Many many lack a guaranteed connection to markets for their produce, making it difficult to sell their produce at fair prices. Women, who stand for more than 80% of the agricultural labour, are often disadvanted in terms of access to financial resources, land and livestock ownership. (show example on left side of illustration)
Economically, this leads to insufficient income from farmging to provide for the families and a large proportion of the smallholders are living in poverty today. (show example on left side of illustration)
At the same time, the Mt Elgon region has strong opportunities
The area has several up and coming cooperatives ready to take on the role of providing agricultural services to its current and new members to turn this vicious cycle around. The farmers that we meet are eager to engage with new market players and enter the dairy value chain together with their neigbours.
The Livelihoods Mt Elgon Project uses a proven agronomic model to fight these challenges
Farmers are trained on Sustainable Agricultural Land Management (SALM) practices in order to adapt to the impacts of climate change and reduce greenhouse gases, increase farm productivity and food production. These practices, in combination with the protection of river banks will contribute to watershed conservation and protection of Lake Victoria.
The practices require limited financial investment and have proven efficiency to improve agricultural productivity.
Within just a few years, a farm can transform from this (show left) to this (show right).
From previous Vi Agroforestry projects, we know that crop yields can increase by up to 90% in 5 years and sequester an average of 1.68 tCO2e/ha/year
Some of the practices that farmers will implement on the farm are- mention a few key practices:
• Agroforestry – growing trees alongside crops and livestock. This highly reduces soil erosion, and increases soil fertility. It will have a substantial impact on Co2 sequestration. (show on illustration).
• Nutrient management such as mulching and composting, which will also have an effect on Co2, increase the soil organic carbon (show on illustration).
• Integrated Livestock Management with improved livestock feeding, breeding and waste management will improve milk production. Free grazing (see illustration to left), severely damages the ecosystem. This will be avoided as cows have access to feed and water throughout the year from the farm (show right). And improved dairy cow productivity also affects the Co2 emissions .
• (Soil and water conservation such as retention ditches. This will will…..)
• (Agronomic practices such as crop rotation and intercropping will… )
• (Tillage and residue management such as zero-tillage will….)
John
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Collecting more milk with less variability due to Water scarcity and fodder supply