Experience Fair Presentation in the Learning Route: Practical solutions to adapt to climate change in the production and post-harvesting sectors: the cases of Mozambique and Rwanda.6th – 16th of November 2016 Climate Change and Adaptation (CCA) strategies in Rwanda and key information on the Climate Resilient Post-Harvest and Agribusiness Support Project (PASP)

1. Climate Resilient Post-Harvest and AgribusinessClimate Resilient Post-Harvest and Agribusiness
Support Project (PASP)Support Project (PASP)
Presented by:Presented by: ZIGIRIZA LuciaZIGIRIZA Lucia
PASP Operations Manager SPIU/MINAGRIPASP Operations Manager SPIU/MINAGRI

2. Climate Change (CC) situation in Rwanda
Temperature
The analysis of the annual average temperatures of
Kigali Airport Station (1971-2007) and of Kamembe shows
a clear increasing tendency in temperature.
In Kigali Airport for instance an average value was
19.8°C in 1971 and 21.0°C in 2009.
This reveals an increase of 1.2°C in 39 years.
The increase of 1.2°C in 39 years is remarkable in as
much as it exceeds global warming estimated at 0.8°C in
150 years.
Rainfall
An analysis of the daily rainfall data from Kigali Airport
station for the period 1971-2010 shows that annual
average total number of rain days has reduced from 148
days in 1971 to 124 days in 2009. These data indicate not
only reduction rainy season period, but also increasingly
poor distribution and reliability of rainfall
More drought, landslides and flooding

3. EXISTING cc adaptation institutional framework
 The Vision 2020
 EDPRS: Green
growth
programme
 National
Strategy on
Climate
Change & Low
Carbon
Development
(2011),Agricultu
re sector leads
2 programme :
1&2
 PSTA III: with a
programme on
mainstreaming
of environment
and Planning to
CC.

4. Objectives
 PASP overall project goal is to alleviate
poverty, increase rural income and
contribute to the overall economic
development of Rwanda;
 PASP development objective is to
increase smallholder and rural labourer
incomes (including women, youth and
vulnerable groups) from CIP crop and
dairy businesses, especially those
related to aggregating production for
markets, supporting transformation, and
creating value-added.
 The project become effective since
28th March 2014 and it will be
implemented over 5 years period.
 The project target the development of the
post-harvest (non-primary production) parts
of six priority value chains: Maize, Beans,
Potatoes, Cassava, Milk & horticulture
 The initial target for PASP national
beneficiaries will be 32,400 rural households in
12 selected Districts:
 The project target the establishment of 200
Hubs across 12 Districts which will be
associated with the 32,400 households
Target

5. Project financing & components
• PASP is complemented by a $7.000.000 Post-
harvest Climate resilient Agribusiness grant
(PHCRAB) which has been deployed in the
Republic of Rwanda within the framework of
supporting Adaption for Smallholder Agriculture
Programme (ASAP).
No Donor
Amount
(USD) %
1
IFAD Loan &
IFAD Grant 26,937,414 32.32
2 ASAP Grant 6,923,864 8.31
3
Other value
actors/
beneficiaries 11,469,370 13.76
4
Hub
Commercial
Loans 34,618,599 41.53
5
Government of
Rwanda 3,401,193 4.08
Total 83,350,440 100.00

6. Rainfall (shifts in amount
of rain and when the rainfall
starts and ends ).
Winds and storm
Flooding
Drought events
(Prolonged dry season an
dry spell)
To
(Current annual mean temperature and annual change ;variation in
Temperature)
Frequency of continuous warm
days (above 30 C). (Meteo Rwanda
reports that the highest temperature recorded in
Kigali for 1991-2000 it was 32.8 C; and for 2001-2010
it was 35.4 C.)
The process for smarting PASP project interventions :
6
Landslide
Flooding
Water scaricity
Crop failure
Warehouse Project:
Collection,drying,
shelling, fumigation ,
weighting, sorting,
grading, storage,
packaging and
Marketing),

7. PASP: Six main achievements through green fund

8. Establishment of partnership with different project implementation
Public institutions
No Name Collaboration
framework
Role with regards to improving smallholder farmers resiliency
1 RAB MOU Conducting research related activities including those related
to research on drought tolerant and early maturing varieties
Testing and approving climate smart post harvest technologies
2 RMA MOU Analysis of climate data and dissemination of climate information
to smallholder farmers
3 CICA MOU facilitate farmers to get their feedback on climate information
4 BDF MOU Manages PASP grant &guarantee facilities
Private organization
1 Technical service
providers
Contract Providing a training and coaching to smallholder farmers and
other advisory services (maize, beans, Irish potato, cassava &dairy)
2 Service providers on
BP development
Contract Providing different services related to BP development
3 Financial institutions Contract with
BDF
Provides loans to farmers & other private business promoters

9. Sharing Climate information to smallholder farmers
Analysis of available historical agro-meteorological data to quantify changes
in seasonal characteristics and incidence of extreme events and how these
impact upon harvest and post-harvest processes, and the rural infrastructure.
Being done under MOU with RMA.
 Preparation and dissemination of early warning messages appropriate to
the risks identified in each PASP area (droughts, floods, cessation of rains
etc.) developed through climate information services.
 Training of farmers on climate information and sharing of seasonal forecast
through community level workshops.

10. Cont.
Identification and promotion of crop and forage varieties that mature earlier and are more
tolerant to floods and droughts through appropriate participatory field trials and field
demonstrations : a number of trials and demo Plots have been established for maize, Irish
potato, cassava and forages.

11. MINAGRI2015
Cont
A climate smart warehouse constructed as
a demonstration, using an improved design:
Natural turbine ventilation
system, wall ventilation, solar
Energy, rain water harvesting
System, hermetic storage bags etc…..
2
FGD in new drying hangar
with Twitezimbere, Kayonza Driying mesh, COPAMOJA, Ngoma
Solar inverterunit,
KOAMA, Gatsibo COOPAMA warehouse, Nyagatare

12. MINAGRI2015
Challenges
No Intervention Challenges
1 Climate information
sharing
The major problem with climate information sharing is
related to micro-climate linked with Country topography
(main hills and mountains). It is difficult to produce a
weather forecast at large scale of geographic coverage.
2 Climate smart
technologies
Limited availability of appropriate climate smart
technologies
Research related activities Research related activities that takes long due to research
protocols required

13. Lets discuss!
Thank You!
Merci!
Obrigado!
Asente!
Murakoze!
Kanimambo!
Re a leboga!
Lessons Learnt?