Transcript Climate Smart Crop production

Climate Smart Agriculture to Foster Food Production
by Dyborn Chibonga, NASFAM CEO
Prepared for WFO Annual General Assembly in Livingstone, Zambia - May 4-6, 2016
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Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Defined
• An integrated approach to developing technical, policy and
investment conditions to achieve sustainable agricultural
development for food security under climate change
• CSA consists of three main pillars namely:
 Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes.
 Adapting and building resilience to climate change.
 Reducing and/or removing carbon emissions.
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Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture
• Increase in mean temperature
• Changes in rain patterns
• Increased variability both in temperature and rain patterns
• Low water table and drying up of water bodies.
• Frequency and intensity of extreme events such as droughts
and floods
• Disturbances of ecosystems.
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Impact of Floods and Drought on Agriculture
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Reduced availability of food
Reduced availability of water and grass
Increase in food prices
Reduction in income
Food and nutrition insecurity
Loss of assets
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Why Climate Smart Agriculture now
• World population to increase by at least third by 2050 – from 7.3
billion (2015) to 9.7 billion (2050)
• Agricultural production will have to increase by at least 60%.
• Climate Change a threat to food and nutrition security under a
‘business-as-usual’ approach
• Adaptation, mitigation & reduction of GHG emissions necessary
• Therefore, adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture paramount to
increased food productivity.
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Climate Smart Crop production
• Unpredictable and erratic rainfall patterns will continue to
affect crop production:
to cope with these and many other challenges of climate
change, crop production must adapt and become resilient to
change;
integrated approaches are needed in order to diversify food
sources and strengthen the resilience of farmers’ livelihoods.
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Climate Smart Crop production strategies Integrating Livestock systems
• Increases biological diversity
• Improves nutrient recycling and soil health
• Improves forest conservation
• Increases environmental resilience and climate change adaptation
and mitigation
• Enhances livelihood diversification
• Increases producer’s resilience to economic stresses.
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Adaptation and Mitigation practices summarized
• Agricultural diversification
• Conservation Agriculture (CA)
• Soil compaction management
• Integrated Nutrient and Soil
Management
• Tree planting
• Use of high quality seeds and
planting materials of adapted
varieties
• Integrated Pest Management
• Agroforestry
• Proper livestock management especially housing
• Proper water management in rice
fields
• Sustainable forest management
• Integrated Weed Management
• Irrigation
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Sustainable Forest Management defined
• The use of forests and forest lands in a way, and at a
rate, that maintains their biodiversity, productivity,
regeneration capacity, vitality and their potential to
fulfill, now and in the future, relevant ecological,
economic and social functions, at local, national, and
global levels, and that does not cause damage to other
ecosystems.
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Remember, No Farmers No Food,
and No Food No Life.
The Future of Food Production
Farmer organisation
Youth mobilisation
Thank You!
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