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Rethinking Agriculture in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2010-03-31 05:22Year:
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Innovative thinking on agriculture in the Greater Mekong Subregion will help nations meet rising food demands, protect environments and prepare for climate change.
Nations of the Greater Mekong Subregion need to ‘rethink’ their agricultural industries to meet future food needs, given the social shifts and climate changes that are forecast for the coming decades. With better farming practices, and by managing agriculture within the wider context of natural ecosystems, nations could boost production and increase the wealth and resilience of poor people in rural communities.
Mapping biophysical factors that influence agricultural production and rural vulnerability
Submitted by Claudia.Hiepe on Thu, 2009-11-26 16:46
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This monograph is part of a series of reports that explain how techniques of spatial analysis can be used to investigate poverty and environment links worldwide. It combines rural population distribution data contained in the global rural population database for the year 2000 (FAO, 2005) with methods and results of the Global agro-ecological assessment for agriculture in the 21st Century (Fischer et al., 2002), in order to estimate the distribution of the world’s rural population by agricultural suitability class, land use category and type of farming system.
Integrating Adaptation to Climate Change into Agricultural Production and Food Security in Sierra Leone
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IFADImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and Environment; and Ministry of Agriculture and Food SecuritySummary:
To lessen the impact of climate change on vulnerable rural communities, as well as on natural resources critical for sustaining agricultural production and increase food security.
Project Components:
1. Sustainable development of Inland Valley Swamp for rice production
2. Integrated Natural Resource Management (NMR) and water resource management for agricultural production
3. Capacity building and awareness raising on Climate Change at both institutional and local level
4. Project Management
Expected Outputs:
- Highly vulnerable areas of inland rice production are mapped and characterized
- 100 ha of climateproofed inland rice fields established (producing rice at least 80 % of the lowest yielding limit average - 2 t/ha)
- Rice yields are resilient to climate change and at least 2 climate proofed crops/yr secured,
- Improved rice varieties and more efficient management practices are adopted in 100 ha at least.
- Training to local rice producers 8 sessions for 50 participants each
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Project Contact Person: Mr Naoufel Telahigue Programme Officer Global Environment & Climate Change (GECC) Unit Programme Management Department (PMD) IFAD Tel: +39 065459 2572 Email: n.telahigue@ifad.org
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Council ApprovedPrimary Beneficiaries:
rural populations
Integrating Climate Change Risks into the Agriculture and Health Sectors in Samoa
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Health, National Health Services and Ministry of Agriculture and FisheriesSummary:
Increasing evidence of climate change-induced risks confronts the Samoan community with serious livelihood challenges, especially in the agriculture and health sectors. The increasing frequency and length of extreme climatic events have adversely impacted on agricultural production, which has led to loss of crops and soil erosion. Along with agricultural vulnerability, there are growing concerns about climate related vector-borne, food-borne and water-borne diseases.
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The Integrating Climate Change Risks in the Agriculture and Health Sectors (ICCRA&HS) project will help the Government of Samoa develop an integrated approach to address climate change impacts through adaptive actions. The project’s main components aim to both further understand the effects of climate change in the agriculture and health sectors in Samoa, and to inform future adaptation planning and actions.
These goals will be accomplished by:
- Collecting and exchanging climate data between sector professionals and regional climate observation networks;
- Obtaining an estimate of the damage to Samoan population and economy of climate change related risks in the agriculture and health sectors. This will help quantify the benefits of adaptation measures;
- Identifying and evaluating alternative adaptation measures applicable to Samoa;
- Revising agricultural management plans and strategies, national soil and crop maps, and public health plans;
- Providing the Samoan authorities and institutions with an effective tool to estimate the future potential damage to crops and farms and to plan future adaptation investments based on different risk scenarios;
- Craft an early warning system to prevent significant damage to the agriculture and health sectors.
Expected Outputs:
- Summary of the relevant baseline development plans and investment programmes of the public, private and NGO sector in Samoa focusing on relevant activities as they pertain to climate change risk management in the sectors of intervention through the proposed UNDP-GEF intervention;
- Review and summary of the existing policy and regulatory frameworks;
- Review, analysis and summary of the past project related activities of other donors and private sector on adaptation in Samoa and an updated report on the co-operation and co-financing possibilities in the framework of the envisaged UNDP-GEF project;
- Supporting reports prepared by techincal experts to justify the proposed project interventions and to leverage financing for the proposed activities (this may include pre-feasibility studies for pilots, draft business plans etc.)
- A Project Logical Framework that captures UNDP endorsed indicators and verification strategies;
- M&E framework for the project that will measure improvement in adaptive capacity to climate change including variability. This includes a list of proposed indicators and an associated monitoring and evaluation plan (with a clear definition of how these indicators would be measured and how verification data would be collected through the monitoring programme).
- A work plan with detailed roles and responsibilities for implementation;
- A stakeholder participation plan, with a clear focus on community involvement;
- Endorsement letters from the government and letters confirming co-financing commitments;
- Project Document as per GEF and UNDP requirements including completed UNDP checklist for preparing adaptation projects;
- Lessons Learned from the prepararoty phase and; and
- Other reports from all project relevant stakeholder consultations
Contacts:
Project Manager ICCRAHSS, MNRE
- Anne Rasmussen
- Email: anne.rasmussen@mnre.gov.ws
UNDP Regional Technical Adviser, CC-Adaptation
- Gabor Vereczi
- Tel: +685 728 0081
- Email: gabor.vereczi@undp.org
UNV Climate Change Specialist
- Marta Moneo
- marta.moneo@undp.org
Project Status:
Under ImplementationPrimary Beneficiaries:
Coastal communities of Samoa
Madagascar - National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2009-06-22 23:59
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National adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change – those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The following summarizes the NAPA for Madagascar.
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