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Livestock management
Enhancing resilience of communities to the adverse effects of climate change on food security, in Pichincha Province and the Jubones River basin
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, World Food Programme, Ministry of Environment in coordination with Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Commonwealth of the River Jubones Basin and Provincial Government of PichinchaSummary:
The Proposed Project:
Project Components:
- Increased knowledge to manage climate change risks affecting food security in targeted cantons in Pichincha Province and River Jubones basin
- Strengthen adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability in targeted cantons in Pichincha Province and MCRJ
Source: Project Proposal, 2011
Expected Outputs:
Output 1
1.1 Increased awareness of communities on climate change risks and food security related risks
1.2 Secured ownership of adaptation measures in communities in targeted cantons
1.3 Increased knowledge to manage climate change and risk, including climate variability affecting food security
Output 2
2.1 Increased adaptive capacity and ecosystem resilience in targeted rural communities
2.2 Increased capacity at communities and institutional level to manage climate change risk in targeted cantons
Source: Project Proposal, 2011
Project Status:
Under Implementation
Climate Change and Agriculture, Threats and Opportunities
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2011-02-08 19:40Year:
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There are different climate change-related challenges that the agricultural sector in developing countries will face and various opportunities for emission reductions and adaptation. Adaptation measures in the agriculture sector are highly significant for poverty reduction, agriculture in developing countries can play a significant role in mitigating greenhouse gases and it is critical to work out incentives that are conducive to emission reductions in this sector.
Reconstitution of hut livestock to reduce household vulnerability to climate change in the communities of Houtchi and Dan Djaoudi, Roumbou
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Implementing Agency:
UNOPSImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Villagers Community of Houtchi and Dan Djaoudi, Departmental Direction of Animal Resources of Dakoro, Cabinet Studies-Cartographie-TrainingSummary:
Niger is a landlocked country in Western Africa. The Sahara desert and the semi-arid Sahel zone cover approximately 80 percent of the country’s land. The climate is Sahelian and unfavorable due to its low altitude. The rainy season lasts three to four months, from June to September, and the dry season lasts eight to nine months.
Contacts:
CBA Project Management Unit United Nations Development Programme Energy and Environment Group 304 East 45th St, 9th Floor New York, NY 10017 off: 212-906-5006
Project Status:
Under ImplementationPrimary Beneficiaries:
community of Houtchi and Dan Djaoudi villages in the municipality of Roumbou, Niger
Optimizing livestock production as a climate change adaptation strategy in Semi-arid Regions of southeast Zimbabwe
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Makoholi Research Station and the Department of Agriculture, technical and extension services (Agritex) are key partners in this initiative. A strong working relationship has been developed between these institutions and the participating farmers.Summary:
The GoZ-UNDP/GEF: Coping with Drought and Climate Change project is working with small-holder
farmers in Chiredzi district to demonstrate the potential of livestock production in drought risk management
and climate change adaptation.For overall details refer to the [Zimbabwe - Coping with Drought and Climate Change Project](http://www.adaptationlearning.net/projects/zimbabwe-coping-drought-and-c...)
Contacts:
Project Manager
GoZ- UNDP/GEF: Coping with Drought and Climate Change
Environmental Management Agency
Harare, Zimbabwe
Email: cwd@ecoweb.co.zw
Sheep Farming Development
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)Summary:
Under the Regional Programmes for Food Security (RPFS) sheep farming was introduced to Tongan. The main activities included: selecting and preparing facilities for the stock; inspection of the breeding stock in Fiji; procurement and shipment of sheep to Tonga; securing breeding lines and maintaining breeding records; conducting training on sheep husbandry; and developing criteria for distributing of the stock. A honey bee project is also recently been completed. The project provided equipment and training for the development of small private apiaries.
Contacts:
FAO Contact:
Vili Fuavao
Email: vili.fuavao@fao.org
Tel: (+685)22127
Fax:(+685)22126Project Status:
Completed, 2008
Adapting to increased aridity in the livestock-raising community of Lepsy
Submitted by MelOliveros on Tue, 2009-12-15 03:24
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The project focuses on the pastoral community of Lepsy, in Northern Kazakhstan. The community suffers from extremely dry climate and poor pasture management. Increased aridity due to climate change and the disruption to traditional seasonal grazing have negative impacts on livestock productivity. The CBA project aims to reduce the community's vulnerability to climate change and conserve the sand pasture ecosystem. This will be achieved through the implementation of pasture management practices that maximize scarce water resources.
Adaptation Experience:
Background
The community is benefitting from the implementation of pasture management practices that maximize scarce water resources.
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Integrating Climate Change Risk into Community-Level Livestock and Water Management in the Northwestern Lowlands
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2009-11-18 02:10
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Evidence of climate change, including drought variability is well documented in the country’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA, 2007) and Initial National Communication (INC, 2001). Occurrence of dry spells and seasonal and multi-year droughts are more frequent, and increasingly severe. Eritrea’s INC highlights projections of up to a 4.1 o C temperature rise by approximately 2050. Rainfall projections indicate reductions in lowland regions and a decrease in basin runoff by, on average, 29.5% in an adjacent basin area. Resultant impacts on water resources and agriculture will adversely affect food security.
Eritrea’s NAPA identified that the livestock production system and related livelihood opportunities of pastoralists are highly vulnerable to long-term climate change, including variability, especially in north-western Eritrea. Recent records showed that frequent droughts and strong inter-annual precipitation variability between 1992 and 2004 have contributed towards the annual deaths of thousands of livestock, especially cattle and camels in Kerkebet. Aside from overall grazing shortages during such droughts, thermal stress through higher temperatures has been observed in livestock, increasingly exceeding thresholds that animals can tolerate. This has led to a change of grazing patterns, including the shortening of grazing hours, resulting in decreased feed intake. This interferes with animal productive and reproductive functions, and will be worsened under anticipated climate change scenarios for the region. With crop cultivation and animal husbandry accounting for 60 percent of rural incomes, and people in Eritrea’s north-western lowland areas depending almost exclusively on livestock production, the expected climatic changes will have serious repercussions on rural poverty and well-being.
Adaptation Experience:
The adaptive capacity of local pastoralists and community members will be enhanced by piloting irrigation technologies and management practices that support climate change resilient dry-season crop production, and integrating climate risks into rangeland management systems in Kerkebet. Further an overall enabling policy and planning framework for up-scaling of CCA will be set at the Anseba Zoba-level, and effective CCA-related knowledge management to support and inform policy and rangeland related decision-making processes will be set up.
Results and Learning:
The project will also be useful in contribution to adaptation learning and potentially promoting replicability not only in Eritrea (e.g. an additional 50,000 people live in the eastern lowlands), but the entire dry land of East Africa where extensive pastoralist livestock production is practiced. The project will contribute to the GEF portfolio on adaptation through UNDP-GEF’s Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM).
Sustainability:
The expected local adaptation benefits include that the population of eight villages representing more than 1,800 households living in the arid western lowlands of Eritrea will have secure livelihoods to resist the impacts of climate change, whilst also expanding their livelihood options and skills into less climate sensitive sectors.
Replication:
Great attention has been paid in the project design to ensure that the intervention generates experiential learning to contribute to national dialogue on the replicability of this intervention as an adaptation measure. Information on the cost-effectiveness of the intervention over time will be generated, together with an analysis of supporting government policy needed.
Integrating Climate Change Risk into Community-Level Livestock and Water Management in the Northwestern Lowlands of Eritrea
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Implementing Agency:
United Nations Development Program-UNDPImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Government of EritreaSummary:
Enhance climate change adaptive capacity of livestock production systems in the Kerkebet area.
1. This PPG follows the earlier submission of UNDP-GEF’s Project Indentification Form (PIF) for an LDC funded NAPA follow up project in Eritrea. The PIF was submitted on June 5th, 2007.
Project Components:
This project will support adaptation to changing climatic conditions of pastoral communities in the rangelands of Eritrea in the areas of livestock and water management. The project will enhance technical capacity in climate change risk management of key stakeholders at the community and national/sub-national levels, implement priority demonstration climate change risk management activities (based on activities identified through the NAPA process), and provide support for the diversification towards less climate change sensitive livelihood opportunities for rangeland communities.
Expected Outputs:
Outcome 1: Livestock management systems that are effectively integrate climate change risk management techniques piloted.
Outcome 2: Technical capacities of communities and relevant institutions on integrating climate change risks into livestock and water management enhanced.
Outcome 3: Lessons learned and acknowledgement management component established.
- Personnel trained in forage conservation techniques;
- Personnel trained in managing and distributing water based on available climate information;
- Improved knowledge on reseeding of the rangeland with specific varieties of grass and legume species that will be appropriate in changing climatic conditions;
- Extension support services and other relevant stakeholders trained in climate issues;
- Awareness of climate change risks and needs pertaining to livestock and water management in rangelands improved for policy makers; and
- Development of a rangeland management plan incorporating climate change risks over the next 30 years.
Contacts:
Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, UNDP-GEF
Tel: +1-212-906 6843
Email: pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.orgMs. Jessica Troni
Regional Technical Advisor, Southern & Eastern Africa
Phone: (27) 12-082-333-0591Project Status:
Under ImplementationPrimary Beneficiaries:
Pastoral communities
