International Policy Research Organisations

This volume shares new data relating to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), with emphasis on experiences in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book is a collection of research by authors from over 30 institutions, spanning the public and private sectors, with specific knowledge on agricultural development in the region discussed. The material is assembled to answer key questions on the following five topic areas: (1) Climate impacts: What are the most significant current and near future climate risks undermining smallholder livelihoods? (2) Varieties: How can climate-smart varieties be delivered quickly and cost-effectively to smallholders? (3) Farm management: What are key lessons on the contributions from soil and water management to climate risk reduction and how should interventions be prioritized?  (4) Value chains: How can climate risks to supply and value chains be reduced? and (5) Scaling up: How can most promising climate risks reduction strategies be quickly scaled up and what are critical success factors? Readers who will be interested in this book include students, policy makers, and researchers studying climate change impacts on agriculture and agricultural sustainability. 

Final report of the Training  'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture in the SADC Region' which took place in June 2018 in Réduit, Mauritius.

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation 'Climate-smart agriculture and gender' by Dr Wiebke Förch, GIZ programme advisor for ACCRA/CCARDESA.

Contains information on

• Gender and rural development and agriculture
• Gender and CSA
• Gender responsive programming
• Conclusions

Prepared for the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Final presentation of group work on adaptation options for 'Tomato'.

Group work and presentation developed during the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Final presentation of group work on adaptation options on 'Livestock'.

Group work and presentation developed during the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Final presentation of group work on adaptation options on 'Litchi Orchard Management'.

Group work and presentation developed during the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation 'Regional Knowledge Management for CCAA/CSA' by Dr. Wiebke Förch, GIZ ACCRA for CCARDESA.

The presentations shows

• CCARDESA as a regional knowledge broker
• CCARDESA Information, Communication and Knowledge Management System (ICKM)
• CCARDESA Southern African Agricultural Information and Knowledge System (SAAIKS)

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation 'Carbon footprint of Agriculture' by Prof. B. Lalljee, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mauritius.

Prof. Lalljee talks about

• What is a carbon footprint?
• Importance of carbon accounting
• Emissions from agriculture and food
• Greenhouse-gases from average food consumption
• Methods of calculating the carbon footprint
• What is climate-smart agriculture (CSA)?
• CSA as key to Paris Agreement goals
• CSA practices for reducing carbon footprint

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation on 'Climate change in agriculture with a value chain perspective' by Dr. Brinda Ramasawmy, Faculty of Agriculture, Univesity of Mauritius.

The presentation covers the following:

• What are Agri-Food Value Chains and how do they work?
• Adapted vs. non adapted value chains
• Actors in the agri-food value chain
• Nexus approach
• Adaptive Value Chain Approaches: examples and research findings
• Potentional objectives and areas for exploitation in the Mauritian context

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation on 'Protected cultivation: an alternative for farmers to adapt to effects of climate change' by Navindra Boodia, Senior Lecturer at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mauritius.

Topics addressed:

• Background: Definition, Types of structures, the current context, objectives
• Siting and design considerations
• Adaptation to climate change effects
• Sheltered farming: in the context of CSA
• Take-home lessons

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.