Transcript Key Thematic Thrusts of FANRPAN

WATER AND CLIMATE
ADAPTATION WORK AT
FANRPAN
Douglas J. Merrey
20 June 2008 FANRPAN
Partners Meeting
Three Projects
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3.
Limpopo Basin
Focal Project
Scaling up microAgricultural Water
Management
(AWM)
Technologies
Adapting Food
Systems to Global
Environmental
Change
Limpopo River Basin
Focal Project
Goals
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To identify agricultural water
interventions whose implementation
will reduce poverty and enhance food,
health, and environmental security in
the Limpopo Basin and beyond
To identify gaps in knowledge about
agricultural water management
options in the basin requiring further
research
Work Packages (WP)
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
WP
WP
WP
WP
WP
WP
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Water and Poverty
Water Availability and Access
Water Productivity
Institutional Analysis
Interventions Packages
Knowledge Management
The Team-1
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FANRPAN and ARC joint venture
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IWMI and GWP-SA regional partners
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ARC leads Water Availability and Knowledge
Management WPs
FANRPAN leads Institutions and Interventions WP
and overall project
IWMI Leads Water Productivity WP and is
associated with +/- 8 CPWF projects in basin
GWP and FANRPAN co-lead stakeholder
consultations
University of Malawi—leads Poverty Analysis
WP
The Team-2
National universities: Botswana,
Eduardo Mondlane (UEM,
Mozambique), Pretoria, Zimbabwe
 Mozambique Institute of Agricultural
Research (IIAM)
Team is large and diverse, but highly
experienced and professional
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Complemented by students (10% of the
total budget)
Research Approach and Stakeholder
Consultation
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Make use of existing data bases and
research project outputs
Use students strategically to fill
gaps, provide analytical support
Highest priority on application,
impact of our work
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Consultations with stakeholders--Large
number, wide diversity, at multiple
levels
Matrix
Intervention
Package
intervention
(contributor)
Associated
Institutions
Name of institution,
contact info, links to
related web sites or
documents
Infrastructure
Technology
Policies &
Institutions
New
Knowledge
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Treadle
Pump
Irrigation
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IDE
http://www.ideorg.org/
Kick Start
http://www.kickstart.org
Small
Reservoirs
CP 46
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Catchment
Management
Forums
DWAF
http://www.dwaf.gov.za
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Policies to Encourage Scaling Up
Micro-Agricultural Water
Management (micro-AWM)
Treadle Pumps--Types
KENYA
S. AFRICA
Micro-AWM--a “best bet” investment
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Low-cost small-scale technologies and
practices are promising investments:
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Relatively low cost per household can benefit more
people/$
Rapid impacts: minimal gestation period
Individualized—lower transaction costs than
communal or government irrigation
Lend themselves to being promoted through markets,
and to being targeted, e.g., to women, or poor
Not a panacea, but high potential
intervention if done right, in the right
circumstances
If micro-AWM so good, why have they not
reached any scale in SSA?
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Main problem is restrictive and
variable government policies (Merrey
& Sally, forthcoming in Water Policy,
2008)
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Compounded by small national markets in
most SSA countries
Mostly NGO-driven; these tend to be supplydriven limited-time projects, often for relief
Inconsistent, Unsupportive Policies
No SSA country has a long-term
supportive policy framework for
encouraging a local marketdriven industry (manufacture,
sales, after-sales service, etc)
 Inconsistent policies: High
costs (2-5 X Indian price), no
long-term investment
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Recommendations: Way Forward
National Level
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With stakeholders, develop consistent long term
supportive policies & designate a lead agency
Support for local R&D, social marketing, low-cost
loans
Limited-time “smart” subsidies to kickstart the
industry, focused on small farmers
 Target women, households who have labor and land
but need help with capital
 Use input vouchers as a way of subsidizing through
the markets
Build into overall long-term agricultural and water
resources development policies
Recommendations: Way Forward
Regional Economic
Communities
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As part of moving
to freer trade,
support
development of
regional markets
for small-scale lowcost technologies
for economies of
scale
Support exchange
of experiences
among countries
Supporting development
of an African marketdriven micro-AWM
industry can contribute
directly to reducing
poverty and hunger by
2015 while through
synergies, enhancing
the returns to largescale water
infrastructure
investments.
Adaptation of Food Systems to
Global Environmental Change
(GEC)
Southern Africa Science Plan and
Implementation Strategy
“GECAFS-SAF”
Partnership of
“Global
Environmental
Change and Food
Systems”
(GECAFS), ICSUAfrica, and
FANRPAN
Proposed five year
programme
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GECAFS Food System Concept
Food System ACTIVITIES
Producing food: natural resources, inputs, technology
Processing & packaging food: raw materials, standards, consumer demand
Distributing & retailing food: marketing, advertising, trade
Consuming food: preparation, consumption
Food System OUTCOMES Contributing to:
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Social Welfare
Income
Employment
Wealth
Social & political
capital
Human capital
Infrastructure
Peace
Insurance
Food Security
FOOD
UTILISATION
• Nutritional Value
• Social Value
• Food Safety
FOOD
ACCESS
• Affordability
• Allocation
• Preference
FOOD
AVAILABILITY
• Production
• Distribution
• Exchange
Environmental
Security /
Natural Capital
• Ecosystems
stocks, flows
• Ecosystem
services
• Access to
natural capital
GECAFS-SAF addresses 3 issues
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how GEC will further
complicate food security
across the region.
the feasibility of policy
and technical adaptation
options at both regional
and local levels.
the socioeconomic and
environmental
consequences of
different adaptation
options designed to
improve food security.
Strategies for Adapting to Climate
Change in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa:
Targeting the Most Vulnerable
Implementing Partners:
 International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI). Other partners include:
 Association for Strengthening Agricultural
Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
 FANRPAN
 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
(PIK)
 Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape
Research (ZALF).
Supported by BMZ (Germany)
Project is being launched at a workshop hosted
by FANRPAN 23-25 June 2008
Strategies for Adapting to Climate
Change in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Goal: Reduced vulnerability of rural households
to climate change through better-coordinated and
targeted food system adaptation strategies.
 Purpose: To provide regional organizations,
policymakers and farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
with tools to identify and implement appropriate
adaptation strategies.
FANRPAN will use this to develop a network of
practitioners and policymakers on
adaptation of food systems to GEC
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Invitation
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Contribute to the Limpopo Basin Water
Management Intervention Matrix
Discuss how micro-AWM can help reduce
poverty and vulnerability at a reasonable
cost
Share your ideas about adaptation of
food systems to GEC in Southern Africa
Or other natural resources issues you
have in mind!
And how these activities form a
coherent mutually supportive
programme