Catherine Mungai

Program Specialist, CCAFS East Africa

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CCAFS/ACPC/COMESA Support to the African Group of Negotiators in the International Climate

Change Discussions on Loss and Damage

Adapting Agriculture toClimate Variability and Change

Technologies, practices, partnerships and policies for:

1. Adaptation to Progressive Climate Change

2. Adaptation through Managing Climate Risk

3. Pro-poor Climate Change Mitigation

Improved Environmental

HealthImproved

Rural Livelihoods

Improved Food

Security

Enhanced adaptive capacity in agricultural, natural

resource management, and food systems

Trade-offs and Synergies

4. Integration for Decision Making

• Linking Knowledge with Action• Assembling Data and Tools for Analysis

and Planning• Refining Frameworks for Policy Analysis

Research themes

Impacts

The CCAFS Framework

Output

Where CCAFS works

Latin America

West Africa

East Africa

South Asia

Southeast Asia

Led byCCAFS East Africa

CCAFS EA program has

identified six learning sites

in four countries: Kenya

(Nyando and Wote

Districts), Uganda (Hoima

and Rakai districts)

Tanzania (Lushoto district)

and Ethiopia (Borana).

Led by

Africa’s input on Loss and Damage in the UNFCCC

The extent of loss and damage due to climate change amongst African farming communities and society at large varies depending on their adaptive capacity.

Declining crop yields due to prolonged drought and high temperatures, especially in Africa, could put hundreds of thousands of people at risk.

Since Africa's agriculture will most likely be affected by climate change, it is imperative that African leaders take leadership in matters relating to agriculture in the climate negotiations.

What does this mean for Africa?

UNFCCC - Loss and Damage COP 16 - Parties created a Work Programme on Loss and Damage under the Subsidiary

Body on Implementation (SBI);

COP17 - Negotiators reached a consensus on elements of the SBI Work Program focusing on three thematic areas:

• Assessing the risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change and the current knowledge on the same

• A range of approaches to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, including impacts related to extreme weather events and slow onset events, taking into consideration experience at all levels

• The role of the Convention in enhancing the implementation of approaches to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change

At the conclusion of COP17, Parties were invited to submit views on issues related to agriculture to be considered by 36th Session of SBSTA in 2012

The AGN chair requested CCAFS, COMESA, & ACPC-UNECA to support the preparation of the Technical and Position Papers on Agriculture and Climate Change in the context of Africa.

A team of experts from five sub-regions of Africa was established and constituted to gather evidence support for a common position for agriculture in Africa

AGN Technical Paper

Major Farming Systems Sub-Saharan Africa

Several writing sessions supported by CCAFS, COMESA and ACPC have been held with the experts for the chapters shown belowo State of Africa’s Agriculture

• Gender and Social-Culture• Farming Systems

o Vulnerabilities of African Agriculture Under a Changing Climateo Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for a Climate Resilient Agricultureo Opportunities for Adaptation Co-benefits in Agricultureo Enabling Framework to support Agricultural Adaptation to Climate changeo Agriculture issues under the UNFCCC processo 10 case studies on successful agricultural adaptation to climate change in Africa

To strengthen the paper, CCAFS facilitated an event during COP 19 in Warsaw, Poland to bring together the authors, reviewers and experts to provide critical inputs to the draft book.

The Process

As part of the evidence gathering process, CCAFS partnered with UNECA-ACPC to undertake a study on loss and damage in Mozambique to assess how farmers and fisher folk are affected by floods.

The case study will contribute to the loss and damage work program of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), especially from Africa’s perspective.

Mozambique Case Study on Loss and Damage

Position paper on Agriculture and climate change to inform the common African position on Agriculture in the UNFCCC process

Technical Paper on Agriculture and Climate Change in Africa Policy briefs Scientific papers to refereed journals for publication to feed into the

IPCC produced Assessment Reports. The book will be launched in 2014 during the COP 20 in Lima Peru

Outputs

• Africa Portal Backgrounder No. 64 - African Group of Negotiators: http://www.africaportal.org/articles/2013/08/22/evolution-african-group-negotiators-unfccc

• Op-ed - Africa roots for agriculture in global climate change talks - http://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/media-centre/in-the-news/africa-roots-agriculture-global-climate-change-talks-star-kenya#.UvntRbT9w5a

• Blog - Africans put agriculture in climate focus - http://ccafs.cgiar.org/africans-put-agriculture-climate-focus#.Uvnt6bT9w5a

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