1. Facing Climate Driven Challenges
With Best Practice and Innovation
Enhancing Climate Resilience of the Agricultural Sector by
Improving Water and Land Management in Select
Communities
MOAF –GOJ –AFP(A)
Presenter: I.W. Wilson
Programme Manager, GOJ
Adaptation Fund Programme
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Presenter: I.W. Wilson
Programme Manager, GOJ
Adaptation Fund Programme
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

2. Building Capacity in Water
Management Best Practices
1. MOAF through the implementation of programmes
including the GOJ-Adaptation Fund Programme is
enhancing the climate resilience of the agricultural
sector by improving water and land management in
selected communities.
2. Partnering to build capacity of vulnerable
communities to use best practices in land
management, rain-water harvesting, to fuel small scale
gravity drip irrigation systems as a means of effective
water management strategy to adapt to the impact of
climate change.

3. 1. Small Scale Irrigation Systems and Production &
Productivity schemes:
a. Provide > 200 small on-farm drip irrigation system
as a means of effective water management strategy
to adapt to the impact of climate change = change
from sprinkle to drip (more effective/efficient
measure)
b. Provide PPP Starter Pack (Agricultural inputs) to
>2067 farmers to boost domestic crop production
in onions and Irish Potato to advance the import
substitution strategy .
c. Using the Farmer Field School methodology in > 142
sessions train 1928 Farmers in best practices in
Climate Smart Agriculture and provided with
assistance to implement these best practice on
their holdings.
Water Management Adaptation Strategies

4. Rain-Water Harvesting (RWH)
Infrastructure
• Collection of run-off water from
structure or other impervious surface
in gutters and other structures that
channel the water into storage
facilities to facilitate constant supply
of water for year round crop
production.
• 3 RWH systems have been
established with > 12 additional ones
to be done in short order.
• Water Harvesting and drip systems
support out-field as well as protected
agriculture .

5. Rehabilitated Rain Water Harvesting
Infrastructure supporting Drip
Irrigation – Haden, St. Ann

6. Rehabilitated Water Harvesting
and drip out-field and Protected
Agriculture

7. Small Scale Water Harvesting
Infrastructure
a. Roof catchment and guttering system,
with plastic tanks and other structures
b. 14 systems established with another 20
or so being processed for installation
a. Construction/rehabilitation of ponds ,
small reservoirs (earthen Concrete or
lined) and entombments)

8. Water Harvesting Infrastructure Cont’d
a. Collaborative approach to beneficiaries’
needs
b. One collaborator (project) provided lined
ponds while other provide distribution
network, on-farm drip irrigation kits and
PPP starter pack.
• PPP impacted 2127
farmers
• established : 800
hectares (2000 acres)
of crops
• 62% hectare reaped
yielded >7000 MT

9. Experience of the GOJ
-Adaptation Fund Programme
• Recognition of the urgent need for
implementation of water harvesting and
efficient irrigation systems-
• Managing run off water while engaging
in agricultural enterprise the hillside
farming
• 5 demonstration plots established to
trained farmers in best practice in
improve their resilience while farming on
slopes:
– 17000 hillside ditched and individual basins
– <200 m Water ways, among other structures
Ballasted
Water
Ways
Diversion Ditches
& Individual
basins

10. Experience of the GOJ
Adaptation Fund Programme
• Impact of Partnership
a. Fuel import substitution - production
and productivity in onion and Irish
potato
i. Onion –Est 55 hec. reap 42 hec, = 257 MT
ii. Irish Potato – Est 780 hec- reaped 475 hec
=6712.22 MT
b. Galvanized farmers within production
area and facilitate organization of
farmers organizations hence enabling
them to take advantage of
economies of scale in their approach
to marketing as well as the purchasing
of agricultural inputs

11. Early Engagement of the Young Mind to
Build Capacity for Sustainability
• Heighten the awareness and manage
the knowledge base of our youths
• Engaged 12 schools with total
population of Approx. 15,000 youths at
the primary and secondary levels to
provide technical information and
support in exposing them to concept of
rainwater harvesting , gravity fed drip
irrigation systems and learning to grow
what you eat and eat what you grow

12. Early Engagement of the Young Mind to
Build Capacity for Sustainability
• Positive response from school administrator,
teachers and students
 Peaked the interest of the students and engage
them in discipline of climate smart agriculture
 Supplement the National School Feeding
Programme

13. Community Base Capacity Building for
Sustainability
Water-Users/farmers Groups-15
 A WUG can contribute to adaptation to
climate change.
by providing a cooperative mechanism
through which they are empowered to
manage local land and water resources
with consideration for climate change,
the environment and other technical
information through consultative
processes, cooperative marketing and
purchasing among other functions that
contribute to sustainability as a going
concern

14. Experience of the GOJ Adaptation
Fund Programme and Conclusions
• Partnering to build capacity yields the
following advantages:
1. Improved or wider range of services for
beneficiaries
2. Wider geographic reach or access to new
beneficiaries
3. More integrated approach to beneficiary’s
needs
4. Leveraging of existing resources and
avoidance of duplication of efforts
5. Capacity to replicate success
6. Knowledge of best practice and
information sharing

15. Experience of the GOJ Adaptation
Fund Programme and Conclusions
7. Better coordination of Organizational Activities
One major challenge we have observed is that people
collaborating with the objective of generating income
can be quite challenging . It also recognized that the
rewards to be accrued to farmers organization and
beneficiaries can be substantial- Social intervention
to promote sustainability of Farmers organization to
manage water resources and maintain their livelhiood
is critical.