Taking Forward the Implementation of the Agriculture Priority Actions in NCCAP (2013–2017) Kenyan Experience
A presentation from CCAFS East Africa Regional Program.
Intensification of maize-legume based systems in the semi-arid areas of Tanza...africa-rising
Presented by Ganga Rao, NVRP, Kimaro, A., Makumbi, D., Mponda, O., Msangi, R., Rubanza, C.D., Seetha, A., Swai, E. and Okori, P. at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa annual review and planning meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3-5 September 2013
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
Understanding adoption, synergies and tradeoffs at farmand household level
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
FAO CSA metrics workshop, March 14th2019
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
Intensification of maize-legume based systems in the semi-arid areas of Tanza...africa-rising
Presented by Ganga Rao, NVRP, Kimaro, A., Makumbi, D., Mponda, O., Msangi, R., Rubanza, C.D., Seetha, A., Swai, E. and Okori, P. at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa annual review and planning meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3-5 September 2013
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
Understanding adoption, synergies and tradeoffs at farmand household level
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
FAO CSA metrics workshop, March 14th2019
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
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Combined Presentations for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) Tools for Africa w...CANAAFRICA
On 12th October 2015 the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), East Africa through its regional knowledge sharing platform The Climate and Agriculture Network for Africa (CANA) organized a webinar dubbed Climate-Smart Agriculture Tools for Africa.
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to provide a general overview of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and the EPIC programme. After providing a definition of CSA, the presentation focuses on Sustainable Land Management and the role of climate finance to support CSA. It concludes with a description of the FAO-EC project on CSA.
Climate Smart Agriculture Project: using policy and economic analysis as a ba...FAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared as background to the FAO TCI Investment Days 2013 held at IFAD on 17-18 December. The presentation provides an overview of the theory of change of the FAO-EC Climate-Smart Agriculture project and highlights the contribution of the project in providing sound evidence for investment proposals.
Analytical Tools To Assist Climate-Smart Agriculture Policy MakingCGIAR
Presented by Mark W. Rosegrant at GFIA 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI
Mark highlighted that CSA forces us to shifts the emphasis from policies that aim at a single targets to policies that have multiple objectives. He went on to underline that CSA changes the planning time horizon - policies and analyses necessarily span long time periods of 20-30 years. And that therefore CSA requires the use of integrated modeling frameworks that work at multiple geographical scales. And that given its complexity, importantly, CSA requires an even closer collaboration between policy makers and research community.
By Jitendra Kumar Sundaray, A. Bhattacharya, A.G. Ponniah, T.K. Ghoshal, A.D. Deo, J.P. Sharma, M. Phillips
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
Climate Smart Agriculture: Opportunities and Stumbling blocksCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Marius van den Berg from the Institute for Environment and Sustainability explains briefly what climate-smart agriculture is what effects and interrelations farm management practices associated with CSA have, how CSA was adopted and which policies enabled it and what can be taken home from that.
Presentation made in the APEC workshop on Food Security and Climate Change, in Hanoi, Vietnam on 19th April. Outlines what Climate Smart Agriculture is, and concrete cases across the globe. Presentation made by Andy Jarvis.
This presentation was given at an internal workshop in April 2020 and was presented by Le Hoang Anh, Hoang Thi Thien Huong, Le Thi Thanh Huyen, and Nguyen Thi Lien Huong.
Barriers to adoption: policy & institutional arrangements to support CSAFAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to as background to the Scientific conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture held in Montpellier, France, on 16-18 March 2015.
Targeting capacity building for quantitative foresight modeling, presentation held by Gerald Nelson, former scientist at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and current researcher at IFPRI, during the conference GCARD in Uruguay 2012. Read more about Nelson's presentation here: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/Climate-models-make-sense-farmers
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Combined Presentations for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) Tools for Africa w...CANAAFRICA
On 12th October 2015 the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), East Africa through its regional knowledge sharing platform The Climate and Agriculture Network for Africa (CANA) organized a webinar dubbed Climate-Smart Agriculture Tools for Africa.
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to provide a general overview of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and the EPIC programme. After providing a definition of CSA, the presentation focuses on Sustainable Land Management and the role of climate finance to support CSA. It concludes with a description of the FAO-EC project on CSA.
Climate Smart Agriculture Project: using policy and economic analysis as a ba...FAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared as background to the FAO TCI Investment Days 2013 held at IFAD on 17-18 December. The presentation provides an overview of the theory of change of the FAO-EC Climate-Smart Agriculture project and highlights the contribution of the project in providing sound evidence for investment proposals.
Analytical Tools To Assist Climate-Smart Agriculture Policy MakingCGIAR
Presented by Mark W. Rosegrant at GFIA 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI
Mark highlighted that CSA forces us to shifts the emphasis from policies that aim at a single targets to policies that have multiple objectives. He went on to underline that CSA changes the planning time horizon - policies and analyses necessarily span long time periods of 20-30 years. And that therefore CSA requires the use of integrated modeling frameworks that work at multiple geographical scales. And that given its complexity, importantly, CSA requires an even closer collaboration between policy makers and research community.
By Jitendra Kumar Sundaray, A. Bhattacharya, A.G. Ponniah, T.K. Ghoshal, A.D. Deo, J.P. Sharma, M. Phillips
Revitalizing the Ganges Coastal Zone Conference
21-23 October 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
Climate Smart Agriculture: Opportunities and Stumbling blocksCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Marius van den Berg from the Institute for Environment and Sustainability explains briefly what climate-smart agriculture is what effects and interrelations farm management practices associated with CSA have, how CSA was adopted and which policies enabled it and what can be taken home from that.
Presentation made in the APEC workshop on Food Security and Climate Change, in Hanoi, Vietnam on 19th April. Outlines what Climate Smart Agriculture is, and concrete cases across the globe. Presentation made by Andy Jarvis.
This presentation was given at an internal workshop in April 2020 and was presented by Le Hoang Anh, Hoang Thi Thien Huong, Le Thi Thanh Huyen, and Nguyen Thi Lien Huong.
Barriers to adoption: policy & institutional arrangements to support CSAFAO
www.fao.org/climatechange/epic
This presentation was prepared to as background to the Scientific conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture held in Montpellier, France, on 16-18 March 2015.
Targeting capacity building for quantitative foresight modeling, presentation held by Gerald Nelson, former scientist at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and current researcher at IFPRI, during the conference GCARD in Uruguay 2012. Read more about Nelson's presentation here: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/Climate-models-make-sense-farmers
Presentation by Martien Lankester, MD, Director of Avalon Foundation, at the 2012 Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) in Rio de Janiero, Learning Event No. 8, Session 3: "Is the organic farmer the doctor of the future?" http://www.agricultureday.org
Presentation by Aracely Castro at the 2012 Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) in Rio de Janiero, Learning Event No. 3, Session 1: How can sustainable intensification of livestock production through improved feeding practices help realize livelihood and environmental benefits? http://www.agricultureday.org
the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Sri Lanka Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) summoned a symposium on “Convergence of policies and programs for sustainable and climate resilient agriculture and role of agricultural economics association in contemporary world” on December 13, 2014 as part of Joint Annual Research Forum at Hectare Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka. The aim of the symposium was to bring together researchers from South Asian countries to present the policy measures taken within their countries regarding climate –smart agriculture and to explore the convergence among them for the near future.
Development and Implementation of Legislation, Policies and Strategies; Programmes and Projects for Climate-Smart Agriculture: Kenyan Experience
By Janet Oyuke,
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
ICRISAT Global Planning Meeting 2019: Update on Funding status and focus of t...ICRISAT
Developed as unified approach implementing climate-smart agriculture policies and produced an evidence based scientific framework for guiding investments and policy making decisions for scaling up climate-smart agriculture.
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
RBM for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Presented on 23 January 2015.
By Bruce Campbell, Phil Thornton, Ana María Loboguerrero.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS).
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Nepal Agricultural Economics Society (NAES) are jointly organizing Annual Conference of Nepal Agricultural Economics Society on February 13-14, 2015 at Conference Hall, Trade Tower, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal. During the annual conference of NAES, a special session on “Convergences of Policies and Programs relating to Sustainable and Climate Resilient Agriculture” is being organized. The aim of this special session is to showcase the studies and experiences in South Asian countries on climate resilient agriculture and how they can learn from each other to formulate progressive and sustainable policies to promote climate smart agriculture in a regional perspective.
Workshop 7: Building Partnerships and Alliances to Scale Up Climate-smart and Adaptation Solutions in the Caribbeanat The Caribbean-Pacific Agri-Food Forum 2015 (CPAF2015) taking place 2-6 November in Barbados with support from the Intra-ACP Agricultural Policy programme, organized in partnership with the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). http://www.cta.int/en/news/caribbean-pacific-agri-food-forum.html
This was a presentation done at a working session meeting by the African Group of Negotiators (AGN), United National Economic Commission for Africa/African Climate Policy Centre (UNECA/ACPC), Africa Development Bank (AfDB), The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and AfricaInteract with support from International Development Research Centre (IDRC) for the agriculture and gender negotiators and experts to prepare the AGN submission to the upcoming 44th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) scheduled to take place from 16 to 26 May 2016 in Bonn, Germany.
The Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project works to deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture.
AICCRA does this by enhancing access to climate information services and climate-smart agricultural technology to millions of smallholder farmers in Africa.
With better access to climate technology and advisory services—linked to information about effective response measures—farmers can better anticipate climate-related events and take preventative action that help communities better safeguard their livelihoods and the environment.
AICCRA is supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank, which is used to enhance research and capacity-building activities by the CGIAR centers and initiatives as well as their partners in Africa.
About IDA: IDA helps the world’s poorest countries by providing grants and low to zero-interest loans for projects and programmes that boost economic growth, reduce poverty, and improve poor people’s lives.
IDA is one of the largest sources of assistance for the world’s 76 poorest countries, 39 of which are in Africa.
Annual IDA commitments have averaged about $21 billion over circa 2017-2020, with approximately 61 percent going to Africa.
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Mengpin Ge, Global Climate Program Associate at WRI, 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
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Sabrina Rose, Policy Consultant at CCAFS, 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
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
This presentation was meant to be included in the 2021 CLIFF-GRADS Welcome Webinar and presented by Ciniro Costa Jr. (CCAFS).
The webinar recording can be found here: https://youtu.be/UoX6aoC4fhQ
Presented by Harsh Rajpal, Code Partners Pte. Ltd., on 30 June 2021 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Webinar on Sustainable Protein Case Study: Outputs and Synthesis of Results.
Presented by Ciniro Costa Jr., CCAFS, on 28 June 2021 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Webinar on Sustainable Protein Case Study: Outputs and Synthesis of Results.
Presented by Marion de Vries, Wageningen Livestock Research at Wageningen University, on 28 June 2021 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Webinar on Sustainable Protein Case Study: Outputs and Synthesis of Results.
Presented by Issac Emery, Informed Sustainability Consulting, on 29 June 2021 at the second day of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Webinar on Sustainable Protein Case Study: Outputs and Synthesis of Results.
Presented by Hongmin Dong and Sha Wei, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), on 28 June 2021 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Webinar on Sustainable Protein Case Study: Outputs and Synthesis of Results.
Presented by Lini Wollenberg, CCAFS, on 28 June 2021 at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Webinar on Sustainable Protein Case Study: Outputs and Synthesis of Results.
Presentation by Han Soethoudt, Jan Broeze, and Heike Axmann of Wageningen University & Resaearch (WUR).
WUR and Olam Rice Nigeria conducted a controlled experiment in Nigeria in which mechanized rice harvesting and threshing were introduced on smallholder farms. The result of the study shows that mechanization considerably reduces losses, has a positive impact on farmers’ income, and the climate.
Learn more: https://www.wur.nl/en/news-wur/show-day/Mechanization-helps-Nigerian-farms-reduce-food-loss-and-increase-income.htm
Presentation on the rapid evidence review findings and key take away messages.
Current evidence for biodiversity and agriculture to achieve and bridging gaps in research and investment to reach multiple global goals.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdf
Taking Forward the Implementation of the Agriculture Priority Actions in NCCAP (2013–2017) Kenyan Experience
1. Taking Forward the Implementation of
the Agriculture Priority Actions in
NCCAP (2013–2017)
Kenyan Experience
Mary Nyasimi
Gender & Policy Specialist
CCAFS-East Africa
29 April 2014
2. Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Research Program of CGIAR
Adapting Agriculture to
Climate Variability and Change
Technologies, practices, partnerships and
policies for:
1. Adaptation to Progressive Climate
Change
2. Adaptation through Managing
Climate Risk
3. Pro-poor Climate Change Mitigation
Improved
Environmental
Health
Improved
Rural
Livelihoods
Improved
Food
Security
Enhanced adaptive capacity
in agricultural, natural
resource management, and
food systems
4. Integration for Decision Making
• Linking Knowledge with Action
• Assembling Data and Tools for Analysis
and Planning
• Refining Frameworks for Policy Analysis
3. 1. Identify and develop pro-poor
adaptation and mitigation
practices, technologies and policies
for agriculture and food systems.
1. Support the inclusion of agricultural
issues in climate change policies,
and of climate issues in agricultural
policies, at all levels.
CCAFS Research Objectives
5. Led by
CCAFS East
Africa
CCAFS EA program works in
at 2 levels - Community and
National in 4 countries
Uganda (Hoima and Rakai
districts)
Kenya (Nyando and Wote
Districts)
Tanzania (Lushoto district)
Ethiopia (Borana)
6. Kenya’s National Climate Change Response Strategy
The National Climate Change Response
Strategy (NCCRS 2010) - a key policy
document that also addresses measures
for mitigation and adaptation in the main
economic sector
A comprehensive National Climate
Change Action Plan (NCCAP 2013-2017)
was written to operationalize NCCRS
The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) was
developed to amplify the adaptation
issues highlighted in the NCCAP. Its
aligned with national development
objectives (2013-2017) and priorities
outlined in Vision 2030 and other
sectoral plans.
7. Agriculture in the Climate Change Action Plan
The agriculture sector offers great
potential for synergies among the
objectives of food security, poverty
reduction, adaptation and
mitigation.
Adaptation is first priority, but
many actions have mitigation
benefits - Climate Smart
Agriculture can help meet both
adaptation and mitigation goals.
8. Agriculture Priority Actions in Kenya’s NAP …..
Promote climate smart agriculture (KES 15B)
Coordination and mainstreaming of climate change into agricultural extension (KES
4.5B)
Establishment and maintenance of climate change related information for agriculture
(KES 9.5B)
Up-scaling specific adaptation actions – Promotion and bulking of drought tolerant
traditional high value crops; Water harvesting for crop production; Index-based
weather insurance; Conservation agriculture; Agro-forestry; and Integrated soil fertility
management (KES 14.5B)
Development and application of Performance Benefit Measurement methodologies
for adaptation, mitigation and development (KES 1.41B)
9. Cont’d
Grazing management systems, fodder banks and strategic reserves (KES 12.5B)
Price stabilization schemes and strategic livestock based food reserves (KES 4B)
Selection and breeding animals to adapt to climate change (KES 4.5B)
Livelihood diversification (camels, indigenous poultry, beekeeping, rabbits, emerging
livestock – quills, guinea fowls, ostriches, etc) (KES 2.1B)
Capacity building – Inventory of indigenous knowledge, livestock insurance
schemes, early warning systems, stocking rates, vaccination campaigns, disease control
(KES 4B)
Enhance irrigation and drainage to increase agricultural production and address water
requirements for livestock production (KES 63.4B)
10. Taking Forward the Implementation of the Agricultural Priority
Actions in Kenya’s NCCAP 2013 – 2017
The Ministry Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries (MoALF) and the CGIAR
Research Program on CCAFS-East Africa initiated a process of taking
forward the implementation of actions through a Roundtable meeting in
July 2013
Other key partners include:
• Government Ministries (e.g., MEWNR; Min. of Finance-Treasury)
• Government Parastatal (Kenya Forest Services; NEMA; Kenya Met)
• National Research Organizations (e.g., KARI; KEFRI)
• CGIAR Centers (e.g., ILRI, ICRISAT, ICRAF, CIFOR)
• NGOs and CSOs, Farmer organizations
• Private sector
• Universities
11. Roundtable Meeting – July 2013
Agenda - to discuss the modalities of supporting the implementation
the NCCAP 2013 – 2017 focusing on the priority actions fro
agriculture.
Meeting agreed to create thematic working groups which would
focus on:
identifying mechanisms for supporting the implementation of
Agricultural components of the National Climate Change Action
Plan (NCCAP)
defining a national vision for Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
defined as agriculture that sustainably increases productivity, resilience
(adaptation), reduces/removes GHGs (mitigation), and enhances
achievement of national food security and development goals-FAO 2010
.
12. Key Thematic Areas
Climate Smart Agriculture
(MALF)
Finance and investments
(Min. of Finance-Treasury)
Knowledge and capacity
building (University of
Nairobi)
Policies and legal frameworks
(KIPPRA)
13. Kenya National Adaptation Planning Event –Sept 2013
120 Participants attended and Outcomes of Event were:
CSA should be defined in the context of a national vision (Kenya Vision 2030)
Create synergy between seemingly quite different agricultural sub-sectors (crops, livestock,
fisheries, water)
CSA can merge the modern science and indigenous knowledge and practices into formal
climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies,
CSA to link to other sectors of the economy e.g., energy & water.
Formation of a consortium to spearhead implementation
Blog: Tackling climate change: Kenya holds first national adaptation planning meeting for agriculture -
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/tackling-climate-change-kenya-holds-first-national-adaptation-planning-
meeting-agriculture#.UooQmuK2X7A
14. Priority Actions Identified by Consortium
Priority Action-1: Climate smart agriculture; technologies and practices to build resilience to
climate impacts, enhance food security and contribute to lowering the national emissions
intensity in the agriculture and food sector
Priority Action-2: Strengthening the national capacity to respond to climate change and
variability through improved access to knowledge and scientific evidence to better inform
planning and decision-making
Priority Action-3: Enabling institutional, policy and legal frameworks to support the scaling
up/out of climate informed services and safety nets for risk reduction in agriculture with a focus
on county governments
Priority Action-4: Expanding access to rural finance and broadening mechanisms for attracting
investments in climate smart agricultural product value chains leveraged through public, private
partnerships
15. CSA Investments
Investment 1: Increasing resilience to climate impacts and enhancing food security
through crop and livestock breeding and mitigating emissions intensity through
sustainable land management practices.
Investment 2: Utilizing the ASALs to bolster farmers’ adaptive capacity and improve
livelihoods, through water harvesting, management and utilization and aquaculture, &
increasing carbon sequestration through agroforestry & forest management in
medium potential agricultural lands.
Investment 3: Managing climate risks through mainstreaming and strengthening
delivery of climate informed services, access to micro-credit, index-based insurance,
and agro-advisory services into new agricultural investments
Investment 4: Scaling up proven successful adaptation and mitigation strategies by
creating public-private platforms to promote value chains and provide appropriate
training and regulatory processes
16. Post-National Workshop Activities
Formation of a taskforce to develop a list of
criteria to select the pilot 12 counties.
Consortium with MoALF to support the process
of getting buy-in from the selected counties.
Complete investment framework and share
with relevant government ministries, private
sector and Donors
Reach out to County Governors through a
participatory process.
Hold a series of briefing meetings with Private
sectors & Policy makers
MoALF is working with CCAFS to organize a a
dialogue on ‘The impacts of climate change on
agriculture in Kenya’ = June/July 2014
Continue to define a national vision for Climate
Smart Agriculture (CSA) 1 January 2013