AUDA-NEPAD Gender Climate Change and Agriculture Support Program Training Of Trainers

Agriculture's contribution to the economy and employment is declining at varying rates, posing various socioeconomic issues. Meeting growing agricultural needs with current farming techniques is expected to lead to over-extraction from natural resources, accelerate greenhouse gas emissions, and low yields. In addition, intensive and unsustainable agriculture will lead to environmental degradation such as loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and land degradation, among other things. Smallholder farmers and especially vulnerable groups like marginalized groups and women are affected the most. In the rural setting, women are left to tend to the family and farm as men relocate to the cities to look for jobs. as a result, this has caused a rise in migratory shifts, particularly among households where the man is the household head. Eventually, this is contributing to gender disparity and associating farming with women. Hence climate-smart agriculture is used to create synergies that will enhance crop production and lead to mitigation and adaption to climate change as well as achieve food security and preserve the environment. Against this backdrop, the gender climate change and agriculture program was initiated in 5 African countries. The GCCASP is funded by Norad and went through several phases of vigorous planning and, subsequently, implementation. The implementation stages of GCCASP are divided into four primary priority intervention areas, which effectively represent different but interconnected sub-programmes: (i) closing policy and institutional gaps, (ii) capacity building of women smallholder farmers, (iii) creation and strengthening of women platforms, and (iv) investments in scaling up successful and innovative practices. The gender climate change and agriculture support program (GCCASP) is meant to be used as a CSA training tool and as a component of the process of improving trainers' and smallholder farmers' capacity to merge CSA practices, innovations, and knowledge by designing and implementing customized training courses at both levels. Various initiatives as well as activities on the ground were carried out during the first stage of implementation. The programs focused on increasing women farmers' capacity through several prioritized training and on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) innovations and practices. The outcomes of this implementation were quite effective, despite some hurdles, such as inadequate finance. this resulted in downscaling and focusing on a small number of districts and stakeholders. Nonetheless, participating countries reported significant outcomes that, when combined with significant resources and a large number of target beneficiaries, might significantly contribute to the African Union Agenda 2063

Tanzania Meteorological Authority Stakeholders’ Training on the Sixth National Climate Outlook Forum (NCOF6) for November 2022 – April 2023 Rainfall Season

In the late 1990s the World Meteorological Organisation, National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), regional institutions and other international organizations initiated an innovative process known as the Regional Climate Outlook Forums, that led to the National Climate Outlook Forums. These Forums bring together climate experts, on an operational basis, to produce geographical climate outlooks based on input - climate predictions - from all participants. By bringing together the different experts, the Forums ensure consistency in the access to, and interpretation of, climate information. Through interaction with users in the key economic sectors, extension agencies and policymakers, the Forums assess the likely implications of the outlooks on the most pertinent socioeconomic sectors and explore the ways these outlooks could be used by them. The Tanzania Climate Outlook Forum focused on the delivery of consensus-based, userrelevant climate outlook product for the November 2022 – April 2023 (Msimu) rainfall season in real time through national cooperation and partnership with AICCRA (https://aiccra.cgiar.org/) and the International Livestock Research Institute

Climate Related Risks and Opportunities for Agricultural Adaptation in Semi-Arid Eastern Kenya.

This report contains information on a field assessment of risks associated with climate variability in eastern Kenya. It also includes the compilations of climate related agricultural risks gathered from a Kamba radio dialogue with local communities of Eastern Kenya, aired from January to April 2012. It highlights the significant potential in the region for mitigating climate change through improved management of agricultural land and crop and livestock husbandry practices, as well as on tapping into the wide range of traditional knowledge of the local communities. This will lead to better livelihoods of communities in the semiarid areas

Preliminary results from climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives in the Nyando climate-smart villages

Preliminary results from climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives in the Nyando climate-smart villages. Key messages include: shift in farming techniques reduces number of households eating one or no meals each day, households adopt three to five crop innovations and above, greatly expanding on-farm choices for resilient varieties, and resilient crossbreeds of small livestock better adapted to changing feed and water conditions in Nyando provide additional income

Empowering a local community to address climate risks and food insecurity in Lower Nyando, Kenya

In erosion- and drought-prone Nyando, self-help groups affiliated to large umbrella bodies are working with extension agents, researchers and development partners to improve local livestock and diversify crops, to improve soil and water management, and to pool financial and labour resources

Managing climate risks through small ruminants in Kenyan climate-smart villages

Small ruminants (goats and sheep) play an important role in rural livelihoods. About one third of the total red meat consumed in Kenya comes from small ruminants (GoK, 2015a). Small ruminants are easier to de-stock and re-stock due to their small body size, higher birth rate, and shorter generation intervals compared to large stock. Kenya Vision 2030 is the country’s development programme from 2008 to 2030, and has agriculture as a key economic pillar. Within agriculture, small ruminants have been identified as a priority sector in contributing to food security in a changing and variable climate

Scaling up Sustainable Agriculture Land Management in Bungoma County, Kenya

Agricultural landscapes must provide food, fiber and energy to a growing population in a changing climate, while potentially serving as instruments for climate change mitigation. Agriculture is the backbone of the Kenyan economy, contributing approximately 25% of the GDP annually and employing more than 75% of the population (The Government of Kenya 2010). The development of agriculture is also important for poverty reduction since most of the vulnerable groups, like pastoralists, the landless, and subsistence farmers, depend on agriculture as their main source of livelihoods. Growth in the sector is therefore expected to have a greater impact on a larger section of the population than any other sector. This is especially true in Bungoma County in western Kenya, where the agriculture sector is projected to provide up to 70 percent of jobs between 2013 and 2017 (The County Government of Bungoma 2013).However, climate change presents many challenges, as well as new opportunities, for the development of agriculture, and Bungoma County needs to promote and support sustainable agricultural practices that will improve agricultural productivity, as well as help farmers adapt to and mitigate climate change, at both small and large scale, as outlined in the Bungoma County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP) 2013-2017. This brief provides a review of the potential benefits of Sustainable Agriculture Land Management (SALM) practices, the relevant policy context for implementing them in Bungoma County and suggests policy steps that could be taken by the County government to scale them up

Sustainable Agriculture Land Management Practices for Climate Change Mitigation: A training guide for smallholder farmers

The manual was created specifically for use in the Western Kenya Smallholder Agricultural Carbon project, managed by the Swedish NGO Vi Agroforestry, which is the test case for the first Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) methodology for generating carbon credits by building organic matter in agricultural soils. The project aims to provide support to farmers as they implement the sustainable agricultural and management (SALM) practices which generate the carbon credits within the project. This manual includes introductory modules on climate change and SALM, as well as modules that describe specific SALM practices, including soil nutrient management, tillage and residue management, agronomic practices, integrated pest management, agroforestry, soil and water management and improved livestock management

East Africa Climate-Smart Villages AR4D sites: 2016 Inventory

Inventory of CSA practices in East Africa’s ClimateSmart Villages

Activity Report: Implementation of the CSA Monitoring framework in Doyogena Climate-Smart Landscape, Ethiopia

Following up the workshop training held in Doyogena (Ethiopia), the implementation and data collection associated with the climate smart agriculture (CSA) monitoring was carried out between November 2-10, 2019 by a team of 7 enumerators and a supervisor. The main objective of this monitoring was to assess farmers’ adoption/implementation of CSA practices and technologies over the last 12 months and the perceived effects of their implementation on: food security, crops productivity and income, adaptive capacity and gender aspects (labour, participation in decision making, access/control over generated resources). Eleven promising CSA options targeting the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes and ecosystems, and the enhancement of farmer resilience were addressed: Terraces with Desho grass (Pennisetum pedicellatum) a soil and water conservation measure; Controlled grazing; Improved wheat seeds (high yielding, disease resistant & early maturing); Improved bean seeds (high yielding); Improved potato seeds (high yielding, bigger tuber size); Cereal/potato-legume crop rotation (N fixing & non-N fixing); Residue incorporation of wheat or barley; Green manure: vetch and/or lupin during off-season (N fixing in time); Improved breeds for small ruminants; Agroforestry (woody perennials and crops) and Cut and carry for animal feed. The CSA monitoring targeted two persons of opposite sex involved in on-farm activities from a sample of household located in seven villages within the Doyogena Climate-Smart site area. Those included: Tula (01), Suticho (02), Gewada (03), Cholola2 (04), Tachignaw Genjo (05), Duna (06), Gatame 1(07). The households in the first 6 villages were direct beneficiaries of the CCAFS project whereas the ones visited in Gatame1 were non-beneficiaries or “additionals” (potentially non–adopters). Between November 2-10, 2019 a total of 140 households (227 individual farmers: 137 male and 140 females) were surveyed