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Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to adaptation in the SADC region (proceedings report)

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This report presents the proceedings of the Climate Proofing and CSA Training in Cape Town in October 2016.

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Training
Extension Service
Climate Smart Agriculture
CSA
Climate Change Adaptation
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Wiebke Förch
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CCARDESA

Pache pache seed growers receive a shot in the arm

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CCARDESA
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Sucess Story of ‘Pache Pache’ - this is an old popular saying in Lambaland, meaning ‘bit-by-bit’. In Kapiri-Mposhi, Central Zambia, Pache Pache refers to a Seed Growers Association of smallholder farmers which was started in 2008 with a membership of thirty (30) to grow soybean and cowpea seed.

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Zambia Agriculture Research Institute

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APPSA
Zambia
Smallholders
Seed
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Dr Nathan Phiri
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Zambia Seed Certification & Control Institute
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Phiri, N. 2017. Pache pache seed growers receive a shot in the arm, Zambia Seed Certification & Control Institute, Zambia

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A Study on crop protection where the ‘Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector’ (GIAE) initiative is being implemented in MALAWI

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Anna Wood
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Margaret Mulaa, Melanie Bateman and Julien Dougoud

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
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A review of pesticide regulations and a summary of registered pesticides. Key findings:

  • There are 158 registered active ingredients, incl. 49 HHP
  • In the groundnut and soybean value chain best practice approaches to pest managements are already being practiced
  • Increased pest monitoring, biopesiticides, improved and resistant varieties can support more effective pest management
  • Need for awareness-raising among farmers and advisers on pest identification
  • Policy-level support to incentivise the use of less toxic pesticides and increase availability and use of safer alternatives
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CABI

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Malawi
Crop Protection
Pesticides
Climate Smart Agriculture
CSA
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Anna Wood
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CABI, Southern Africa Centre
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Histórias de sucesso, Vol.2, 2017

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Secretariado da SADC
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Secretariado da SADC
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Este é o 2o volume de uma coleção de histórias do Secretariado da SADC informando os cidadãos da SADC e criando consciência sobre impactos positivos dos protocolos, acordos, políticas e estrategias. A ambição é de ilustrar precisamente como os programmas de integração regional da SADC mudam as vidas dos cidadãos da SADC para o melhor. Para destacar alguns, no rio Zambezi, está em construção a Ponte Kazungula que vai em breve formar uma maior ligação no coração da região SADC. Em Malawi tem o tomate Bvumbwe, evoluído para responder às condições específicas da região e às demandas da população da SADC. Em Walvis Bay, Namibia, e Nacala, Mozambique, existem dois pontos de entrada para a rede crescendo de corridores de desenvolvimento, justapostos, qual a região SADC quer desenvolver na próximas decadas. 

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SADC
História de Sucesso
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Secretariado da SADC
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Secretariado da SADC
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Secretariado da SADC, 2017. Histórias de sucesso, Vol.2, 2017, Secretariado da SADC, Gaborone

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Histoires de réussite de SADC, Vol. 2, 2017

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Secrétariat de la SADC
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Secrétariat de la SADC
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Il s'agit du deuxième volume d'un recueil d'histoires du Secrétariat de la SADC visant à informer les citoyens de la SADC et à les sensibiliser davantage aux impacts positifs des protocoles, accords, politiques et stratégies de la SADC.  Il cherche à brosser un tableau précis de la manière dont les programmes d'intégration régionale de la SADC changent pour le mieux la vie des citoyens de la SADC. Pour n'en citer que quelques-uns, au Zambèze, il y a la construction du pont de Kazungula, qui constituera bientôt une importante liaison de transport au cœur de la région de la SADC. Au Malawi, il y a la tomate de Bvumbwe, qui a été développée pour répondre aux conditions spécifiques de cette région et aux besoins de la population de la SADC.  Et dans la baie de Walvis en Namibie et à Nacala au Mozambique, il y a deux points d'entrée au réseau croissant de corridors de développement le long desquels la région SADC se développera dans les décennies à venir.

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SADC
Histoire d'une réussite
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Secrétariat de la SADC
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Secrétariat de la SADC
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Secrétariat de la SADC, 2017. Histoires de réussite de SADC, Vol. 2, 2017, Secrétariat de la SADC, Gaborone

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SADC Sucess Stories Vol. 2, 2017

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SADC Secretariat
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SADC
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This is the 2nd volume of a collection of stories by SADC Secretariat to inform SADC citizens and enhance awareness about the positive impacts of SADC  protocols, agreements, policies and strategies.  It seeks to paint an accurate picture of how SADC regional integration programmes are changing the lives of SADC citizens for the better. Just to highlight a few, at the Zambezi River, there is the construction of the Kazungula Bridge that will soon form a major transport link in the heart of the SADC region. In Malawi, there is the Bvumbwe tomato, which was developed to address the specific conditions of this region and the needs of the SADC population.  And in Namibia’s Walvis Bay and Mozambique’s Nacala, there are two entry points to the growing network of development corridors alongside which the SADC region will develop in the coming decades.

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SADC
Success Story
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SADC Secretariat
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SADC Secretariat
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SADC Secretariat, 2017. SADC Sucess Stories Vol. 2, 2017, SADC Secretariat, Gaborone

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Food losses - For sustainable resource use from field to fork

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German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
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Bruno Schuler, Karl Moosmann, Maria Höhne, Tanja Pickardt Williams

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This folder explores the issue of food loss in more detail and presents current experiences, challenges and areas of action.

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Food Losses
Food Production
Rural Development
Smallholder
Value Chain
Aflatoxin
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Bruno Schuler
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
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Schuler, B. & Moosmann, K. & Höhne, M. & Pickardt Williams, T. 2016. Food losses - For sustainable resource use from field to fork, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Division 122, Rural Development, Land Rights, Forests, BMZ, Berlin

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Analysis of the Climate Change-related Elements in SADC Member States' Agricultural and Food Security Policies

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This report analyses the status of incorporation of climate change adaptation and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) measures in the SADC Member States’ agriculture and food security frameworks and policies. It details the current situation in the SADC member states with respect to the existence of policies, strategies and programmes that were primarily designed to build resilience to climate change among famers.

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Climate Change
Adaptation
Mitigation
Agriculture
Food Security
Policy
SADC
Climate Smart
CSA
Regional Agricultural Policy
RAP
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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA
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CCARDESA. 2017. Analysis of the Climate Change-related Elements in SADC Member States' Agricultural and Food Security Policies, CCARDESA, Gaborone

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Scaling up community resilience to climate variability and climate change in Northern Namibia, with special focus on women and children

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SCORE Project, Namibia
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Ministry of Environment & Tourism, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry
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Namibia is one of the countries mostly vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change which may affect our national development goals, particularly the agricultural sector, including food security. The Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF) is implementing a five-year project entitled “Scaling up community resilience to climate variability and climate change in Northern Namibia, with a special focus on women and children” (SCORE Project) with funding resources from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The project aims to strengthen the adaptive capacity of 4000 households to climate change and reduce their vulnerability to droughts and floods, with 80% of these households being women-led, and children from 75 schools in Northern Namibia. The project’s desired outcomes include: (1) Smallholder adaptive capacity for climate resilient agricultural practices strengthened; (2) Reduce vulnerability to droughts and floods; and (3) Mainstreaming climate change into national agricultural strategy/sectoral policy, including budgetary adjustments for replication and scaling up.

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Global Environmental Facility (gef)

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Namibia
Resilience
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Climate Change
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SCORE Project
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Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Ministry of Environmental Affairs
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Advert wheat consultancy

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An advert to engage a wheat consultant in southern Africa

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Advert
Wheat
Consultant
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4.61M

Beneficiaries Reached

97000

Farmers Trained

3720

Number of Value Chain Actors Accessing CSA

41300

Lead Farmers Supported