Transcript Showcasing a Journey of Key FANRPAN Initiatives

Natural Resources & Environment
Thematic Thrust
FANRPAN Partners’ Meeting
13 June 2011
Pretoria, South Africa
Current Condition=Change
Current Condition=Change
Predicted Changes in annual precipitation for
Sub-Saharan Africa: from 2000 to 2050
CNRM-CM3
ECHAM5
CSIRO-MK3
MIROC3.2
(Source: IFPRI estimates)
Opportunities for Intervention
National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs)
•ranked priority adaptation activities and projects
•focus on urgent and immediate needs
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action Plans (NAMAs)
•nationally appropriate mitigation action by a developing
country party
•human intervention to reduce sources/enhance sinks of
greenhouse gases
Progress on NAPAs in southern Africa
To date, 30 African countries have developed NAPAs.
Of these, 8 are in southern Africa
DRC
Madagascar
Mozambique
Lesotho
Malawi
South Africa (National Climate Change Response Strategy)
Tanzania
Zambia
African countries with NAMAs under
Copenhagen Accord
Challenge Program on
Water & Food
(CPWF)
Limpopo Basin
Development Challenge
Background
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CPWF: on-going initiative of the CGIAR System
6 Trans-boundary Basins: Nile, Limpopo & Volta
FANRPAN Phase I: Led Limpopo Basin Focal Project
Leading Coordination and Change project in Phase II
Multi-disciplinary research, across scales for mutual
learning from reflection
• Focus on generating relevant research for impact around
a basin challenge
Limpopo Basin Development Challenge
To improve integrated management of rainwater to
improve smallholder productivity and livelihoods
and reduce risk
Limpopo Basin Southern Africa
L2, L4: Mabalane
LBDC Projects & Partners
L1. Model for testing appropriateness of
interventions across conditions in the basin and region
L2. Guidelines for assessing and rehabilitating
small water infrastructure
L3. Innovation platforms for linking smallholder
farmers to markets and information
L4. Governance models that improve access to
water and land for rural populations
LBDC Projects & Partners
L5. Relevant and timely research to inform decision makers
in the face of changing conditions
In partnership with:
Regional linkages with: LIMCOM, NEPAD, SADC
•The LBDC addresses CAADP Pillars I and IV related to
water and land management and agricultural research
Global Reflection & Learning
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3rd International Forum for Water & Food,
November 14-18, 2011, St George Hotel, Pretoria.
Researchers, decision makers, next users and end users
from the Andes, Ganges, Limpopo, Mekong, Nile &
Volta Basins.
Thank you
Climate Change
Cost Benefit models
Advocacy
Policy
Analysis
Analysis
Livelihoods
Analysis
Crop Production
Models
Climate Models
What has FANRPAN done with
Climate Change?
Africa-Wide Civil Society Climate
Change Initiative for Policy Dialogues
(ACCID)
Objectives of ACCID
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To mobilise space for civil society to speak with one voice in climate
change negotiations
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Link adaptation and mitigation agenda
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To equip CSOs with research-based evidence in mitigation and
adaptation to climate change
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Ensure that funds generated from carbon trade and other financial
instruments for funding climate adaptation programmes benefit the
poor and help Africa towards the attainment of the MDGs.
Building Climate Change Resilience in Africa’s
Agricultural Research Programs
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Establish database of climate change and agriculture
stakeholders & a repository of climate change information
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Currently servicing 8,000 contact database
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Providing support and training of journalists on food
security and climate change issues
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Providing electronic news bulletin on climate resilience
With support from
Assessing the Vulnerability of Agriculture
to Climate Change in southern Africa
Part of "Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change in Rural
Sub-Saharan Africa: Targeting the Most Vulnerable“ funded
by BMZ
Objectives
To assess vulnerability of regional agriculture to climate change
with emphasis on the poor
Strengthening Evidence-Based Climate
Change Adaptation Policies
(SECCAP) for Agriculture
SECCAP Objectives
1. Generate solid scientific understanding;
2. Integrate downscaled climate scenarios with crop
growth and adaptation models, with district-wide
household vulnerability information;
3. Determine socio-economic
recommendations;
feasibility
of
cropping
4. Develop appropriate policy recommendations;
5. Provide research evidence to inform policy processes;
6. Transfer knowledge generated to decision & policy
makers and local communities;
Expected outcomes
1. Strengthened scientific, expertise & local knowledge;
2. Strengthened partnership & networking on adaptation
research;
3. Feasibility ranking of cropping options (climate, cost
benefit and policy);
4. Knowledge generated on household vulnerability for
cropping adaptation for Lesotho, Malawi & Swaziland;
5. NAPAs developed/revised/implemented on the basis
of new evidence.
Project partners and Roles
Country
Institution
Lesotho
National University
of Lesotho
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University of
Malawi
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University of
Swaziland
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Malawi
Swaziland
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Partners Role
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University of Cape
Town
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South Africa
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University of
Venda
Selection and registration of MSc and BSc
students to participate in the project
Domestication and hosting of the FANRPAN
livelihood database
Collate crop production, livelihood and cost
benefit data from FAO statistics, national
central statistics and the FANRPAN livelihood
databases
Supervision of BSc undergraduate students to
collate data
Generate downscaled climate data for one
selected district in each of the three project
countries
Use DSSAT crop model to simulate growth of
selected staples (maize, rice, cassava, sorghum,
millet, groundnuts and wheat) by 2030 and
2050 in the selected districts
Avail research outputs from the post-graduate
students employed by World Vision and
supported by FANRPAN
Project partners and Roles
USA
Zimbabwe
International Food
Policy
Research Institute
Development Data
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Use the IMPACT model to examine alternative
futures for food supply, demand, trade, prices
and food security
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Facilitate the domestication of livelihood
databases at university and community levels
Train three (policy analysts/socio economists)
post graduate students on how to analyse
existing household livelihood databases
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Malawi
Swaziland
Lesotho
World Vision
International
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Avail to the project, existing livelihood
databases from Lesotho and Swaziland
Dissemination of evidence generated by the
project and localising CAADP processes at
community level using local structures, the
ADPs in Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland.
Conservation Agriculture
Advocating for improved policies for CA
in southern Africa
Thank You