COMESA-EAC –SADC Climate Initiative
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COMESA-EAC –SADC Climate Initiative
By Chikakula MitiCoordinator -COMESA
Climate, Agriculture, Land Use, and Livelihoods
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The COMESA Logic
Agriculture: • Lead sector for overall growth in Africa• Most important form of land use in Sub-Saharan Africa• Significant pressures on land use and livelihoods• Driven by human and natural threats
Climate Change:• Intensifies and speeds up these pressures• Adds a new dimension of variability and change• Driven by human and natural threats
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And it is this dual focus on human and natural threats that constitute the conceptual basis of COMESA’s
thinking, approach, strategy and programs regarding climate, agriculture, land use and livelihoods.
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Two Perspectives on Climate Change?
• Adaptation• Land use change
(LULUCF)
• Mitigation• Deforestation
(REDD)
Africa OECD
Forest Forest-buffer zones Forest-agricultural lands
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Bringing Perspectives TogetherCAADP addresses the climate challenge by:• enhancing biodiversity through sustainable agriculture and agroforestry• safeguarding the productivity of farms through SLWM
But, recognizing climate change, both local and global, as a threat to these objectives, by
• using these same approaches as adaptation strategies to climate change.
And, recognizing the role that carbon plays in land use, as well as in the global climate regime, by
• linking mitigation strategies, especially carbon sequestration, to these goals.
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The COMESA Partnership• COMESA –EAC-SADC Summit,
Council of Ministers, Member Countries, Climate Working Group
• CAADP Country Roundtables, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Congo DR
• ICRAF, CIFOR, WWF, IFPRI, MSU, wide range of other African Institutions
• AfDB, Proposed Africa Carbon Finance mechanism
Political Platform:
Country Platforms:
Technical Platforms:
Financial Platforms:
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The COMESA Climate InitiativeFrameworks and Tools Applications and Learning
Strengthening and collaborating:
with economic and social institutions to build the political and institutional infrastructure necessary to conserve and protect African landscapes by
Supplying : scientific knowledge, frameworks and tools to assess and develop agricultural and climate-sensitive investments in African landscapes institutional and policy options for establishing the conditions for sustainable, climate-sensitive management of African landscapes guidance for more effective decision-making by commercial farmers, small holders, pastoralists, project developers and managers on African landscapes
Measurement & Monitoring : Development and deployment of an advanced prototype for measuring and monitoring carbon sequestration and co-benefits for sustainable land management projects
Best Practice: Development and deployment of a “toolbox” of best practices for sustainable agriculture, land management and related livelihood strategies Institutions & Policy: Identification of the institutional and policy innovations and reforms necessary to create an enabling environment for sustainable agriculture and better land management practices
Political Platforms: COMESA-EAC-SADC Summit, Council of Ministers, Member Countries, Climate Working Group Country Platforms : CAADP country roundtables, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia Financial Platforms: ICRAF, CIFOR, WWF, IFPRI, MSU, wide range of African Institutions Learning & Outreach: AfDB, IFC, TerraGlobal Capital, and Gulf, South Africa, and global investors