Maren Radeny

Regional Program Coordinator, East Africa

Policy Initiatives and Research in Uganda and Kenya d Policy

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• Identify and develop pro-poor

adaptation and mitigation

practices, technologies and

policies for agriculture and food

systems.

• Support the inclusion of agricultural

issues in climate change policies,

and of climate issues in agricultural

policies, at all levels.

CCAFS objectives

Test and scale up technologies and practices that are needed to build adaptive capacity and food security, document mitigation co-benefits of technologies & practices

Adaptation and food security policies largely at national level, but also global level. Modelling, scenario assessment and policy analysis will provide the information & tools for decision-makers

Flagship 1:

Climate-smart agricultural practices

Flagship 3: Low-emissions

agricultural development

Flagship 2:

Climate information services and climate-informed safety nets

Flagship 4:

Policies and institutions for

climate-resilient food systems

GHG measurement challenges in small-scale farming systems, trade-offs and synergies amongst adaptation, food security and mitigation, incentives for mitigation actions, policy options in agriculture for climate change mitigation and low-emissions development

Deliver improved farmer advisories, better management of safety nets and enhanced design of the weather-indexed insurance working closely with climate scientists, meteorological services, and humanitarian agencies

CCAFS Flagships

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• Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and

Tanzania

• Integrating CCAFS research

across local, national and

regional scales

• Six sites across the 4 countries

- Borana (ET)

- Wote and Nyando (KE)

- Hoima and Rakai (UG)

- Lushoto (TZ)

• Site selection based farming

systems, risk profile, and

represent areas that are

becoming both drier or wetter

CCAFS in East Africa

• EA exhibits spatial heterogeneity in

climate, topography, agro-ecosystems,

livelihoods, and environmental challenges

• High dependency on rain-fed agriculture

for rural livelihoods

• Cereal-based subsistence agriculture in

sub-humid & semi-arid zones, and

pastoralism in arid areas

Regional characteristics

• Climate variability and change presents

new challenges to smallholder farmers

• Climate related risks are becoming more

frequent, with greater intensity

• Increasing food insecurity – e.g. recent

drought in the Horn of Africa

Regional characteristics

In order to address these challenges, CCAFS and its partners

are working with policy makers at national level, and at local

level developing Climate Smart Villages (CSVs) across CCAFS

sites

CCAFS Portfolio in East Africa

Policy engagement in Uganda

• Engagement through AGN – Integrating agriculture into

UNFCCC negotiations

• In country workshops and face-to-face meetings

• Identification of research and policy gaps for climate-smart

agriculture – to set the pace for engagement with stakeholders

• Development of Climate Smart Agriculture Framework

Program (CSA-FP), with integration of CSA in the Intended

Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)

• Documenting the status of NAPA projects in Uganda

Policy engagement in Uganda

Policy Action for Climate Change Adaptation (PACCA)

Project – IITA

• Learning alliances – national platform linking scientific

community and policy actors

• Gender integration - Identification of gender gaps in policy

development and implementation across scales

Policy engagement in Kenya

Taking Forward Kenya’s NCCAP 2013-2017 - key science - policy

engagement process, culminating in the national validation

workshop – June 2015

• With support from CCAFS, ICRAF, CIFOR, ILRI and CIAT, Kenya has developed a CSA-FP, CSA included in INDC

• A prioritization tool ‘targetCSA’ is

now available to support CSA

decision making in Kenya – ILRI,

CIFOR

• Series of joint side events

organized during UNFCCC SBSTA

& COPs

• Supporting development of

Kenya’s Dairy NAMA – ILRI,

UNIQUE Forest

• Participatory evaluation of common bean vars for drought and disease resilience traits through CIAT-PABRA

‒ Close to 15 bean vars by 300 farmers

across 9 villages in Rakai and Hoima

‒ Local landraces, farmer vars, Uganda

officially released varieties and new

germplasm evaluated

• Soil and water management –

NARO in Hoima

Research in Uganda

• Climatic trends, risk perception and coping strategies – Rakai & Hoima (NARO, Makerere)

• Documentation of indigenous knowledge (IK) in weather forecasting

• Participatory evaluation and promotion of improved cassava and sweet potatoes

• Cassava (NASE-14) & sweet potatoes (NASPOT-11 and NASPOT-8)

• 650 households between 2013 and 2016

• New cassava variety is resistant to Cassava Mosaic Virus and Brown Streak Virus

Research in Uganda

• Promoting improved agroforestry and land management with 120 farmers in Hoima

• Mangoes and mango fruit tree demonstrations, orchards and other tree species

• Establishment of community tree nurseries and demonstrations

Research in Uganda

Research in Kenya

• Introduction of new crops - pigeon peas, cowpeas, green grams, sorghum, finger millet, cassava

• Encourage use of farm yard manure to compliment the inorganic fertilizers

• Soil and water management interventions - terraces

Research in Kenya

• Introduction of improved crop varieties - early maturing, with faster growth rates, resistant to certain pests and diseases

• E.g. improved sorghum varieties - Serena, Seredo, KARI Mtama1, KARI Mtama4

• Significant increase between 2011-2014 – in Nyando

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Research in Kenya

• Breed improvement & management for sheep and goats – ILRI, World Neighbors

• Horticulture – fruit (water melon & butter nuts) and vegetables (tomatoes & onions)

• Smart farms (greenhouse production, demonstration farms, involving youth and women

• Testing the design & communication of downscaled, probabilistic seasonal forecasts and their impacts on farmers’ management and livelihood outcomes by ICRISAT (Wote) and Maseno (Nyando)

For more information:

• Working paper: Climatic trends, risk perceptions and coping strategies of smallholder farmers in rural Uganda.

• Working paper: Participatory Evaluation of Common Bean for Drought and Disease Resilience Traits in Uganda

• Working Paper: Evidence and policy implications of climate-smart agriculture in Kenya.

• Blog: Project takes action for climate-responsive policies in East Africa

• Blog: Ready for take-off: East African countries develop climate-smart agriculture frameworks

• Blog: Drought and pest epidemics among top climate risks in rural Uganda

• Blog: Kenya integrates climate-smart agriculture into its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution

• Media article: Science meets farming to reveal Africa’s best bean

Thank you

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