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Join us at the Second ACP Open Day to learn about the initiatives and strategies for promoting sustainable agriculture and climate change adaptation. Discover how weather risk management and value-addition can support ACP stakeholders. Visit our website for more information.
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Second DSEDT Open Day ACP House, 11 October 2011
Basic Facts about 3ACP • Duration : Sept 2007 to Dec 2011 • Overall Budget: € 45 M, of which € 15 M earmarked in support of EU-Africa Partnership on Cotton • A pilot programme covering 6 ACP regions: Pacific, Caribbean, Central Africa, West Africa, Eastern & Southern Africa (ESA) • Funds channelled in two tranches through 5 partner int’l organisations = implementing agencies
Major Problems addressed Problem Area • Dependency • Absence of agrstrategies • Smallholders are poorlyorganised • Poormarketfunctioning and Imperfect information • Limited access to market-basedrisk management tools Required Action • Promote value-addition and diversification • Encourage development of participatorystrategies (or adherence to existingones) • Support capacity-building of producer organisations • Enhancemarketfunctioning & improve information flows • Facilitateinterest in and access to RM tools
Expected Results • Commoditychainstakeholders have the capacity to develop, adapt & implementsustainablestrategies • Strategicpriorities are effectivelyimplemented • Market-basedRisk Management instruments are introduced and their use increased • Complementarities and synergies of partner IOs and other programme partners are harnessed to the benefit of ACP stakeholders
Link between Agriculture and CC • Reduction in crop yields & in agr productivity • Increased incidence of pest attacks • Exacerbation of climatic events (droughts, floods, hurricanes) • Programme Contribution : • Adaptation Measures • Promoting GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) - € 1.94M • Promoting Weather Risk Management - € 1.2M
FFS approaches for cotton and horticulture (West Africa – Senegal, Mali, B. Faso, Benin; East Africa: Kenya, ) Cotton farming systems: 18, 620 farmers and 423 trainers trained in IPPM Horticulture: 1,300 farmers and 86 trainers trained Preliminary evaluation show reduction in cost of crop protection by 70% (Mali) Uptake of IPPM by ministries, ginners, FO Integrated Production & Pest Management (IPPM): An Example of GAP
5000 5.0 4.5 4500 4.0 4000 Mali Cotton Production - FFS and Non-FFS 3.5 3500 3.0 3000 n=65 2.5 2500 Organic Amendments Kg/ha Pesticide Quantity L/ha 2.0 2000 1.5 1500 1.0 1000 0.5 500 0 0 Non FFS Non FFS IPPM
WeatherRiskManagment • Agricultural risk plays a predominant role in the vulnerability profile of low income countries • In most developing countries, traditional community risk management methods do not provide effective protection against large and catastrophic losses, which often stem from climate change • Need for mechanisms that transfer agricultural risk from affected communities • Innovations in agricultural insurance, more specifically, weather index insurance provide such mechanisms
WeatherRiskManagment • Supply chain risk assessments: • Cotton (Burkina Faso, Mozambique); Coffee (Cameroon, Uganda, Jamaica, Haiti); horticulture (Kenya); rice (Guyana) • Training: • On designing index based agricultural insurance (Caribbean, East Africa) • Capacity Transfer: • Partnership with College of Insurance of Kenya • Training of EAFCA trainers • Training of CAFAN leaders