Transcript COMESA Climate Initiative

COMESA-EAC –SADC Climate Initiative
Climate, Agriculture, Land Use, and
Livelihoods
By Chikakula Miti
Coordinator -COMESA
Plenty to fear as climate changes
Forestry Sector Critical to Climate Change Debate
The COMESA Logic
Agriculture:
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Lead sector for overall growth in Africa
Most important form of land use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Significant pressures on land use and livelihoods
Driven by human and natural threats
Climate Change:
• Intensifies and speeds up these pressures
• Adds a new dimension of variability and change
• Driven by human and natural threats
And it is this dual focus on human and natural threats
that constitute the conceptual basis of COMESA’s
thinking, approach, strategy and programs regarding
climate, agriculture, land use and livelihoods.
Two Perspectives on Climate Change?
Africa
OECD
• Adaptation
• Land use change
(LULUCF)
Forest
Forest-buffer zones
• Mitigation
• Deforestation
(REDD)
Forest-agricultural lands
Bringing Perspectives Together
CAADP addresses the climate challenge by:
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enhancing biodiversity through sustainable agriculture and agroforestry
safeguarding the productivity of farms through SLWM
But, recognizing climate change, both local and global, as a
threat to these objectives, by
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using these same approaches as adaptation strategies to climate change.
And, recognizing the role that carbon plays in land use, as well
as in the global climate regime, by
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linking mitigation strategies, especially carbon sequestration, to these goals.
The COMESA Partnership
• Political Platform: COMESA –EAC-SADC Summit,
Council of Ministers, Member Countries, Climate Working
Group
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Country Platforms:
CAADP Country Roundtables,
Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Congo DR
• Technical Platforms: ICRAF, CIFOR, WWF, IFPRI, MSU,
wide range of other African Institutions
• Financial Platforms: AfDB, Proposed Africa Carbon
Finance mechanism
The COMESA Climate Initiative
Frameworks and Tools
Measurement & Monitoring : Development and deployment of an
advanced prototype for measuring and monitoring carbon sequestration
and co-benefits for sustainable land management projects
Best Practice: Development and deployment of a “toolbox” of best
practices for sustainable agriculture, land management and related
livelihood strategies
Institutions & Policy: Identification of the institutional and policy
innovations and reforms necessary to create an enabling environment
for sustainable agriculture and better land management practices
Supplying :
scientific knowledge, frameworks and tools to assess and develop
agricultural and climate-sensitive investments in African landscapes
institutional and policy options for establishing the conditions for
sustainable, climate-sensitive management of African landscapes
guidance for more effective decision-making by commercial farmers,
small holders, pastoralists, project developers and managers on African
landscapes
Applications and Learning
Strengthening and collaborating:
with economic and social institutions to build the political and
institutional infrastructure necessary to conserve and protect African
landscapes by
Political Platforms: COMESA-EAC-SADC Summit, Council of
Ministers, Member Countries, Climate Working Group
Country Platforms : CAADP country roundtables, Rwanda, Uganda,
Malawi, Zambia
Financial Platforms: ICRAF, CIFOR, WWF, IFPRI, MSU, wide range
of African Institutions
Learning & Outreach: AfDB, IFC, TerraGlobal Capital, and Gulf,
South Africa, and global investors