Presentation by Dr Olu Ajayi from CTA, at the Regional planning meeting on ‘Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa – Building partnership for successful implementation’,13–15 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa

1. Olu Ajayi PhD
Johannesburg, South Africa
13 September 2016
Scaling-Up Climate-Smart
Agricultural Solutions for Cereal and
Livestock Farmers in Southern
Africa

2. 2
Outline
• Overview of CTA
• Regional flagship project
• SA Forum (this week)

3. Overview of CTA
Mission: to advance food and nutrition security,
increase prosperity & encourage sound NRM in ACP.
-provides access to information & knowledge,
facilitates policy dialogue and strengthens the
capacity of agricultural and rural development
institutions and communities.
CTA operates under the framework of the Cotonou
Agreement between ACP and EU.

4. Approach
4
Promoting agriculture as a
sustainable business that can
create value for smallholder
producers, provide jobs for
women and youth, produce
nutritious and healthy food for
people, and serve as an engine for
inclusive growth.

5. Strategic Goal 3:
Enhance capacity of stakeholders in
information & knowledge management
Three strategic goals
Strategic Goal 2:
Facilitation of conducive agricultural
policies and enabling environment
Strategic Goal 1:
Development of profitable smallholder
value chains

6. •Conscious choice made to refocus much of CTA’s
operations & resources at regional level.
•1-2 key priority intervention area per region, with
most resources committed to it/them
CTA’s new Strategic Plan 2016-2020
Building on previous achievement
Focus on results, impact

7. Regional flagship projects: common
structure
Activities: what do
we need to do to
achieve these
changes?
Outcomes to achieve
this target impact,
what (institutional)
changes do we have
to make happen?
Impact: the starting point.
Given the problem
statement, what we can
reasonably achieve?
Taking into account
CTA’s unique value?
What can we build on?
Comparative
advantages relative to
other organisations?
Are we well-aligned
with regional and EU
priorities,? How can
we best leverage?
Who should we work
with?
Get the most out of
partnerships. Strong
KM & communication
to go to scale?.

8. 8
Southern Africa
Regional flagship
project

9. Climate (variability & change) is critical to agriculture in SA
region because :
• mono-modal rainfall regime
• smallholder farms are rainfed
Agric activities tied to weather recurrent swings of food▶▶
insecurity
Distribution of impact- poor farmers (smallholder & female) with
lowest capacity to adapt, but have highest need for food security
are disproportionally impacted
Mid-season drought and weather extreme as the “new
normal”?

10. Some pertinent questions.......
 Much information about challenges...but less on
solutions to the challenges
 Any bloom in the gloom?- examples of solutions that
works for smallholder farmers?
 Sample questions:
‒ Where are the solutions?
‒ Where? How to upscale them?

11. Some solutions.......
Four solutions identified through consultations & call for
proposals
a. stress-tolerant germplasm
b. ICT-enabled climate information services
c. diversified livelihood options through livestock
d. innovative weather-based insurance.
Taking cognizance of
• State of the public agricultural extension
• low participation of private sector
Taking advantage of innovative ICT tools to promote information
and access to solutions more widely, quicker and at cheaper cost

12. Scaling-up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals
and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa
Problem
Statement
Outcome
Partners
Smallholder farmers have access to information and strengthened
capacity to adopt existing climate-resilient agricultural solutions
Maize
Livestock
• Smallholder farmers in Southern Africa have poor access to existing
adaptation solutions that could help them cope with climate change
• This results in negative impacts on household food, nutrition and income
Knowledge
generators
Facilitators & enabling
environment
Field implementers
•ICT-enabled extension & advisory services for four CSA facilitated
•Private sector engagement in scaling-up of CSA
•Knowledge on policies and incentives to support access to CSA
Key
expected
outputs
& focus

13. 13
SA Forum

14. Objectives of the Forum
 Technical review of the state of the arts of the four
selected climate solutions & two studies on use of
ICT/KM, business case for private sector engagement
Emerging issues and ongoing initiatives
Develop detailed scaling-up activities for the four
selected climate solutions in response
Initiate new partnership and build synergies with
other partners to complement existing efforts

15. Partnership is our way of
operation

16. ...now over to you
YOU as an important resources- broad
range of expertise, disciplines,
experiences
Big picture: “What key specific
actions to help farmers in SA region
who are out there, dealing with climate
change as they pursue their livelihood
on a daily basis?”

17. Thank you
CTA operates under the framework of the
Cotonou Agreement and is funded by the EU.

18. From Strategy to implementation
Strategy Implementation Plan
• Consolidation and Impact-
Orientation
• Flagship Regional Projects
• Cross-Cutting Global Projects
• Robust M&E, learning and sharing

20. From Strategy to implementation
Strategy Implementation Plan
• Consolidation and Impact-
Orientation
• Flagship Regional Projects
• Cross-Cutting Global Projects
• Robust M&E, learning and sharing

21. West Africa Enhancing intra-regional grain value chains
Central Africa Enhancing nutrition through the upgrading of selected
sustainable and inclusive roots & tubers value chains
Eastern Africa Building resilient communities through improved livestock and
fisheries value chains
Southern Africa Promoting climate-smart solutions for cereal & livestock
Caribbean Sustainable and profitable value chains and agribusiness
development
Pacific Leveraging the development food crops and fisheries value
chains for improved nutrition and sustainable food systems
Six regional flagship projects