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Enhancing Agricultural Resilience: Monitoring, Early Warning, and Response Measures in Ethiopia and Kenya

Learn about the existing components under the 3 pillars of monitoring, early warning, and response for agriculture in Ethiopia and Kenya. Discover the key organizations, services, and initiatives aimed at mitigating drought, providing advisory support, and ensuring food security. Explore the challenges and opportunities for improving accuracy, capacity, information accessibility, and impact assessment in agricultural resilience efforts.

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Enhancing Agricultural Resilience: Monitoring, Early Warning, and Response Measures in Ethiopia and Kenya

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  1. Agriculture: Preparing under the 3 pillars Breakout Session: 1

  2. Components of this exist? • They are available both in Ethiopia and Kenya • In Kenya it is governed at national drought management institute (coordinate 6 pillars) • In Ethiopia (one organization & Taskforce) • National Disaster Risk management commission (which focuses on disasters) • Agro-met advisory task force (produce forecast and recommendation for agriculture)

  3. Monitoring and early warning • Agro-weather advisory service (Ethiopia) • NMA, Research, ATA, MoANR … members of the taskforce…will be a platform soon • Rainfall situation, recommendation and drought Analysis produced by the taskforce • Meet every 10 days…chaired by Crop (MoANR) • Lacks accurate drought monitoring system • Recommendation of emergency seed, livestock feed and water will be produced

  4. Monitoring and early warning • Agro-weather advisory service (Ethiopia) • The responsibility will be a group of organization working in the climate/ agriculture • Developed different materials • agro-met advisory guideline • Training manual • Agro-met stakeholders platform

  5. Monitoring and early warning • Kenya National Drought management Institute • has 6 pillars (agriculture, livestock, environment..) • ending drought emergency by 2020 (Kenya) • Produce a report every two weeks • Based on the early warning the government prepare for food , feed and water • Advocate the pastoralist to have a reasonable number of livestock

  6. Impact and Vulnerability • Vulnerability assessment is done for disaster or food aid by NDRMC • The agriculture sector lacks it to mitigate drought

  7. Mitigation and Response • Based on the forecast of NMA, Report of regions • Mitigation plan develop • Emergency seed supply … done MoANR • Supply of food (NDRMC)

  8. What we lack • They are available both in Ethiopia and Kenya • Their level of accuracy is in question • Capacity gap both material and human power • Accessibility of information by the farmers • Information delivery system (dissemination tools) • Feed back system • Impact assessment • Investment to develop tools (research, delivery/ communication)

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