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Agricultural Productivity Programme for Southern Africa (APPSA) English Brochure

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CCARDESA
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SADC, The World Bank

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The Agricultural Productivity Programme for Southern Africa (APPSA) is a six year (2013 –2018) initiative to improve technology generation and dissemination within and among participating countries in southern Africa. The Programme is funded by the World Bank loan facility to the tune of US$ 30 million for each participating country. APPSA has been launched with the participation of three countries—Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. Other countries in the SADC region are expected to join as the project evolves.

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APPSA,
RCoLs,
Development,
CCARDESA,
Project,
Coordination
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+267 391 4997
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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA, APPSA. Agricultural Productivity Programme for Southern Africa (APPSA) English Brochure. p.2.

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Agriculture climato-intelligente à Madagascar Climate-smart agriculture in Madagascar

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Madagascar occupe actuellement le 5ème rang mondial des pays les plus exposés aux risques dus au changement climatique et le 1er pays exposé en Afrique. Durant 30 ans depuis 1980, des aléas naturels notamment des sécheresses, tremblements de terre, épidémies, inondations, cyclones et températures extrêmes, ont causé des dommages économiques de plus de 1 milliard USD à Madagascar et le secteur agricole est parmi les secteurs durement touchés. Et selon les projections, ces risques devraient s’aggraver dans le futur. Face à cela, la FAO avec un financement du marché commun de l’Afrique Orientale et Australe (COMESA) en collaboration avec la communauté de l’Afrique de l’Est (EAC) et de la Communauté de développement de l’Afrique australe (SADC) a mis en œuvre le programme intitulé : « Programme sur l’adaptation et la mitigation au changement climatique dans les régions est et Sud de l’Afrique ». L’objectif de ce programme est d’appuyer la mise à l’échelle de l’adoption des techniques d’Agriculture Climato-Intelligente afin de renforcer les moyens de subsistance et d’assurer la sécurité alimentaire des petits producteurs dans les régions de l’Afrique de l’Est et Australe dont Madagascar.

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Climate Smart Agriculture et de Conservation Agriculture (CSA/CA)
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat : Augmenter la productivité

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Randrianarifidy R.
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Les secteurs de l’agriculture des pays en développement absorbent environ 22% de l’impact économique causé par les catastrophes et risques naturels de moyenne et grande échelle. L’intégration d’efforts d’adaptation et de financements dans ces secteurs est essentielle.

L’agriculture intelligente face au climat (AIC) est une approche permettant de définir les mesures nécessaires pour transformer et réorienter les systèmes agricoles. L’objectif est de soutenir efficacement le développement de l’agriculture et d’assurer la sécurité alimentaire face au changement climatique. Elle vise à traiter trois objectifs principaux : l’augmentation durable de la productivité et des revenus agricoles (sécurité alimentaire); l’adaptation et le renforcement de la résilience face aux impacts des changements climatiques (adaptation); et la réduction et/ou la suppression des émissions de gaz à effet de serre (l’atténuation).
Par ailleurs, l’AIC permet d’identifier les systèmes de production, les institutions et politiques favorables, les mieux adaptés pour répondre aux défis du changement climatique dans des conditions précises. Dans un même temps, l’AIC vise à accroître la productivité et/ou les revenus.

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Rivolala Randrianarifidy
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AVSF-Micro irrigation et adaptation au changement climatique à Madagascar

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Amélioration de la résilience de 2 000 familles face aux aléas climatiques grâce à la micro-irrigation en goutte à goutte couplée à l’agroécologie.

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Climate Smart Agriculture:Time to Embrace Best Practices?

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Tanzania
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Tanzania
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The impacts of climate change  are reducing the capacity of natural resources to sustain the demand of the increasing population.

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Climate Smart Agriculture
Climate change
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Tanzania
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Tanzania
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Tanzania, 2015.Climate Smart Agriculture:Time to Embrace Best Practices?

Tanzania Climate Smart Agriculture Programme

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Tanzania
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Tanzania
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Tanzania, an East African country, is endowed with important land and water resources that have a high agricultural potential. Agriculture is a key sector of Tanzania’s economy, as it accounts for 24.1 percent of GDP and is the source of livelihoods for more than three-quarters of the population. Majority of the population still live in rural areas although urbanization has increased in the last three decades to reach 38 percent.

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Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
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Tanzania
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Tanzania
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Tanzania, 2015. Tanzania Climate Smart Agriculture Programme.

Potential of Underutilised Vegetable, Fruits and Nuts Crops to Contribute to Food and Nutritional Security, Income and More Sustainable Production Systems

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Tanzania
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The United Republic of Tanzania which comprises of the Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar islands is located south of the Equator in East Africa between latitudes 1o – 12o South and longitude 30o – 40o east. It is bounded to the North by Uganda and Kenya, on the East by the Indian Ocean, to the South by Mozambique and Malawi, to the South West by Zambia, and to the West by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda. Tanzania is mainly an agrarian society with agriculture, the mainstay of its economy, employing more than 80 percent of the total rural population  and accounting for 26.5 percent of the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with over 21% contributed by the crop’s sector. In recent years, Tanzania has attained self sufficiency in food production with annual surpluses, probably a reflection of enhanced capacity for the sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) situated in the context of a series of functioning farming systems.

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Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Self sufficiency
Food production
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Tanzania
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Tanzania
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Tanzania, 2016. Potential of Underutilised Vegetable, Fruits and Nuts Crops to Contribute to Food and Nutritional Security, Income and More Sustainable Production Systems.

CCARDESA 2015 Annual Report

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CCARDESA
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The CCARDESA 2015 Work plan devoted attention to driving activities initiated in previous years, particularly 2014.The operational momentum of activities was built up throughout 2014 with the awarding of CCARDESA supported research grants and implementation of a total of 69 projects. Therefore, the focus in 2015 was on accelerating the implementation of these activities including those identified as quick wins or low hanging fruits in the CCARDESA Medium Term Operational Plan (MTOP)

This report highlights the key achievements for CCARDESA in 2015. It is organised around the four thematic areas and cross-cutting themes that are of priority to the region. These four thematic Areas are: (1) Farmer Empowerment and Market Access; (2) Research and Technology Generation and Farmer Demanddriven Advisory Services and Innovation Systems; (3) Knowledge, Information and Communication; and (4) Institutional Development and Capacity Building. Under a resource-constrained environment facing R&D institutions globally, emphasis in 2015 was strategically directed at innovative implementation of regional activities across all the thematic areas.

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Farmer Empowerment,
Market Access,
Institutional Development,
Capacity Building
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CCARDESA, CCARDESA2015 Annual Report, (2015). pp.20.

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Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change: Agricultural Systems in Madagascar

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Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, is home to an astonishing range of life forms found nowhere else on the planet. Much of this biodiversity is highly vulnerable to climate change. So too are the rainfed agriculture, fishing, and forestry that sustain the island’s 20 mil­lion people.

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International Development Research Centre (IDRC),

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Agriculture Urbaine à Antananarivo, un mécanisme d’adaptation au changement climatique

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L’Agriculture Urbaine est une réponse à plusieurs maux des grandes villes du Sud: les espaces limités, les déchets domestiques, l’urbanisation sauvage, les crues et inondations, la pollution, la précarité et la vulnérabilité face au changement climatique. Elle peut désormais changer la vie de milliers de Tananariviens, au-delà des nécessités de la survie quotidienne.
Renforcer l’identité originale de cette capitale dans sa tradition agricole est une contribution cruciale dans la lutte contre le changement climatique, tout en créant des conditions environnementales saines et respectueuses de la nature et des hommes.

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4.61M

Beneficiaries Reached

97000

Farmers Trained

3720

Number of Value Chain Actors Accessing CSA

41300

Lead Farmers Supported