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Presented by Dr Abdoulaye Saley Moussa, Science Officer, CCAFS West Africa. Africa Agriculture Science Week 6, 15 July 2013, Accra, Ghana http://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/15/jul/2013/africa-agriculture-science-week-2013TRANSCRIPT
Farms-of-the-Future: an innovative approach to strengthening adaptive capacity
Abdoulaye Saley Moussa1, Maren Radeny2 and Osana Bonilla-Findji3 1ICRISAT/CCAFS West Africa Regional Program
2ILRI/CCAFS East Africa Regional Program
3CIAT/CCAFS
Outline o Farming systems in East and West
Africa o Farms of the future approach
o Analogue tool o Exchange visits
o Lessons learned
Farming systems in EA and WA o Small-‐scale subsistence agriculture o Limited use of inputs / fer?lizer o Highly vulnerability to climate
variability and change o reduced crop yields, o food insecurity
o Coping strategies o Challenges of adapta?on:
o Access to informa4on, knowledge, technologies
o Planning for an unknown future
Farming systems in East and West Africa
Past experiences, impacts to define adapta?on strategies
What if tomorrow? How to plan knowing tomorrow (climate
area/region/technologies/
informa?on, etc.)
Farms of the Future Past
Future
• 70% of expected future climates already exist somewhere else
• Facilitates exchange of knowledge, technology, and practices between analogue sites
The 2030 climate of a maize-growing area near Durban will correspond to the current climate of a major maize-growing area in Argentina. Growers in Durban can learn from these analogous climates how to adapt as their climate shifts.
http://gismap.ciat.cgiar.org/analogues/
Climate Analogues: finding future climates for poten;al adapta;on
to connect farmers to their possible climate futures via farm visits which would enable them to build a mental picture of what their climate and farming systems might look like in the future
Farms of the Future
Farms of the Future o Devise, test and validate the "Farms of the Future"
approach built on farmer-‐ to-‐farmer exchanges to analogue sites as a valuable op?on to improve adap?ve capacity and support knowledge transfer
o Improve understanding of local prac?ces and available tools for enabling change, as well as cultural, economic, or ins?tu?onal obstacles to such adap?ve change
• 15 farmers and 5 policy-makers from Lushoto in the northern highlands, travelled to Mbinga in the southern highlands.
• Climatic analogues –locations where the current climate is very similar to Lushoto’s projected future climate (20 – 30 years )
• Ongoing adaptation strategies and management practices
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Farms of the Future: Farmer to farmer exchange visits to enhance adapta6on learning using the Analogues tool in Lushoto
Other Strategies: • Tree nurseries in Mwi?kilwa • Improved stoves in Sepukila • Beekeeping enterprise in Mtama • Avocado, banana, and maize trials in Nyombo village
Weather sta6on in Mwi6kilwa Women preparing “matengo” pits in Sepukila
Ø Par;cipatory video recording by the farmers for the farmers
Other learning experiences from the Farmer-‐to-‐Farmer exchange visit
in Tanzania
Farms-‐of-‐The-‐Future : A Journey to plausible futures of Doggoh (Ghana)
Learning experiences from the Farmer-‐to-‐Farmer exchange visit
in Burkina Faso
• 20 farmers (men and women) and AIS • Agricultural diversifica?on and
intensifica?on Agri-‐business • Food processing (cassava) • Soil and water conserva?on • Integrated system (agro-‐forestry+SWC) • Farmers organiza?on • Land issues
LESSONS LEARNED
1. Give priority to farmers' voice, foster farmer-‐to-‐farmer learning • Support the farmers to share their findings from their study tour with
their own communi?es
• Par?cipatory video: important tool for suppor?ng farmers to document
their own learning
2. Communica?ng climate science is challenging: need to find
appropriate ins?tu?onal frameworks
• E.g. The GTP
LESSONS LEARNED 1. Building adap?ve capacity requires ins?tu?onal, structural and
policy change
2. Strong engagement of actors across the agricultural innova?on
system as adap?ve capacity strengthening cannot be achieved
by farmers alone.
⇒ Climate-‐smart villages Model
THANK YOU
I’m very glad that I’m one of the par?cipant. In fact, we’re joking in Ghana. See how Burkinabe are figh?ng the nega?ve impact of climate change. Growing trees using the technique by Mr Aziz with OM produc?on using crop residue and household waste is
what I’ll start first. Really, the tour is useful to me. Many thanks to
Burkinabe farmers!!!
I ask us too of Yamba village we should conserve
our environment by plan?ng trees. “I was very happy with this trip and I
have learnt a lot… www.ccafs.cgiar.org