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The imperative for Landscape Approaches for Improved Food Security Climate Resilience in Africa Richard Munang, PhD Africa Regional Climate Change Coordinator Regional Office for Africa – United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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Richard Munang of UNEP remarks on the importance of an integrated landscape approach to national and international policy and action for food security in Africa, at the opening session of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative website.
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The imperative for Landscape Approaches for Improved Food Security Climate Resilience in
Africa
Richard Munang, PhD Africa Regional Climate Change Coordinator
Regional Office for Africa – United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
WFP/Judith Schuler
UNHCR Mauritania
Major findings from the AFRICAN ADAPTATION GAP REPORT
The need for an integrated approach: Agriculture, Water, Food, Energy
Major findings from the WORLD BANK’S TURN DOWN THE HEAT REPORT
2 billion in Africa
Africa undernourished in 2050
Central Africa East Africa Southern Africa West Africa0%
10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
25%
50%
85%
95%
Series 1
By 2050, even a change of about 1.2 to 2 degrees Celsius will have increased the number of the continent’s undernourished by 25% to 95%
The Future of African Food Secuirty?
13%
87%
FoodNo food
Experts have warned that if the current situation persists, Africa will be fulfilling only 13% of its food needs by 2050
Africa’s Potential
• The question is, given this scenario, is Africa’s agricultural system ready to respond?
• Solutions that address climate change, productivity, ecosystem services, biodiversity, water and nutrients are urgently needed and
they do exist but in silos
MDGs to SDGs- cross cutting solutions
2015
Watershed Management
Agroforestry
Riverbank Stabilization
Fishery Management
Landslide prevention
Terracing
New reforestation in degraded areas
Cultivation of local varieties
Landscape Level Interventions
Rwan
da Before Intervention
After Intervention
Application of Landscape Approach with EBA Techniques
4850 people in saving/credit cooperatives
462 ha of Terraces
789 ha of forest
73 km of Water Access
2844 ha of pasture
96% forest loss Degraded watershed
Soil nutrient loss and lost crop productivity
High population density
Undiversified food sources
Deforested mangroves
Soil erosion
Unsustainable fishing practices
Flooding
10 ha of mangrovesplanted
70 crab cages built
Ecosystem rebound
Sustainable fishery management
Rebounding fish population
2 fish farming ponds created
Moz
ambi
que
Application of Landscape Approach EBA at Seascape
A Paradigm Shift Needed
Food Insecurity
Ecosystem Degradation
Food Security
Ecosystem Rehabilitation/
Preservation
Policies that do not promote landscape
approachesLandscape -based Policies
• Current food security policies continue to focus on the same three issues – agricultural productivity, trade and macro-economic policies– all of which have an array of diverse actors seeking often unsustainable and sometimes opposed goals while neglecting the central role of ecosystem management.
Can Africa feed Africa?
Believe it!
Communities across Africa are already building resilience to climate change by stimulating their existing ecosystems.
What is needed is to bring these isolated success stories to scale, to make them the rule rather than the exception.
This is the only way that Africa will be able to achieve the envisaged food secured society, in which its population does not experience the fear of want.
More information on Ecosystem-based Adaptation methods for agriculture is available at
www.AAKNet.orgThank You!
