Olu Ajayi PhD

Johannesburg, South Africa13 September 2016

Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereal and

Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa

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Outline

• Overview of CTA

• Regional flagship project

• SA Forum (this week)

Overview of CTAMission: to advance food and nutrition security, increase prosperity & encourage sound NRM in ACP.

-provides access to information & knowledge, facilitates policy dialogue and strengthens the capacity of agricultural and rural development institutions and communities.

CTA operates under the framework of the Cotonou Agreement between ACP and EU.

Approach

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Promoting agriculture as a sustainable business that can create value for smallholder producers, provide jobs for women and youth, produce nutritious and healthy food for people, and serve as an engine for inclusive growth.

Strategic Goal 3:Enhance capacity of stakeholders in information & knowledge management

Three strategic goals

Strategic Goal 2:Facilitation of conducive agricultural policies and enabling environment

Strategic Goal 1: Development of profitable smallholder value chains

•Conscious choice made to refocus much of CTA’s operations & resources at regional level.

•1-2 key priority intervention area per region, with most resources committed to it/them

CTA’s new Strategic Plan 2016-2020

Building on previous achievement

Focus on results, impact

Regional flagship projects: common structure

Activities: what do we need to do to achieve these changes?

Outcomes to achieve this target impact, what (institutional) changes do we have to make happen?

Impact: the starting point. Given the problem statement, what we can reasonably achieve?

Taking into account CTA’s unique value? What can we build on? Comparative advantages relative to other organisations?

Are we well-aligned with regional and EU priorities,? How can we best leverage? Who should we work with?

Get the most out of partnerships. Strong KM & communication to go to scale?.

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Southern Africa Regional flagship

project

Climate (variability & change) is critical to agriculture in SA region because :

• mono-modal rainfall regime • smallholder farms are rainfed

Agric activities tied to weather recurrent swings of food ▶▶insecurity Distribution of impact- poor farmers (smallholder & female) with lowest capacity to adapt, but have highest need for food security are disproportionally impacted

Mid-season drought and weather extreme as the “new normal”?

Some pertinent questions....... Much information about challenges...but less on solutions to the challenges

Any bloom in the gloom?- examples of solutions that works for smallholder farmers?

Sample questions:

‒ Where are the solutions?

‒ Where? How to upscale them?

Some solutions.......Four solutions identified through consultations & call for proposals

a. stress-tolerant germplasm b. ICT-enabled climate information services c. diversified livelihood options through livestock d. innovative weather-based insurance.

Taking cognizance of• State of the public agricultural extension

• low participation of private sector

Taking advantage of innovative ICT tools to promote information and access to solutions more widely, quicker and at cheaper cost

Scaling-up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa

Problem Statement

Outcome

Partners

Smallholder farmers have access to information and strengthened capacity to adopt existing climate-resilient agricultural solutions

Maize

Livestock

• Smallholder farmers in Southern Africa have poor access to existing adaptation solutions that could help them cope with climate change

• This results in negative impacts on household food, nutrition and income

Knowledge generators

Facilitators & enabling environment

Field implementers

•ICT-enabled extension & advisory services for four CSA facilitated

•Private sector engagement in scaling-up of CSA

•Knowledge on policies and incentives to support access to CSA

Key expectedoutputs & focus

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SA Forum

Objectives of the Forum

Technical review of the state of the arts of the four selected climate solutions & two studies on use of ICT/KM, business case for private sector engagement

Emerging issues and ongoing initiatives

Develop detailed scaling-up activities for the four selected climate solutions in response

Initiate new partnership and build synergies with other partners to complement existing efforts

Partnership is our way of operation

...now over to you

YOU as an important resources- broad range of expertise, disciplines, experiences

Big picture: “What key specific actions to help farmers in SA region who are out there, dealing with climate change as they pursue their livelihood on a daily basis?”

Thank you

CTA operates under the framework of the Cotonou Agreement and is funded by the EU.

From Strategy to implementation

Strategy Implementation Plan

• Consolidation and Impact-Orientation

• Flagship Regional Projects• Cross-Cutting Global Projects• Robust M&E, learning and sharing

From Strategy to implementation

Strategy Implementation Plan

• Consolidation and Impact-Orientation

• Flagship Regional Projects• Cross-Cutting Global Projects• Robust M&E, learning and sharing

West Africa Enhancing intra-regional grain value chains

Central Africa Enhancing nutrition through the upgrading of selected sustainable and inclusive roots & tubers value chains

Eastern Africa Building resilient communities through improved livestock and fisheries value chains

Southern Africa Promoting climate-smart solutions for cereal & livestock

Caribbean Sustainable and profitable value chains and agribusiness development

Pacific Leveraging the development food crops and fisheries value chains for improved nutrition and sustainable food systems

Six regional flagship projects