scholarly journals Unlocking Climate Finance Potential for Climate Adaptation: Case of Climate Smart Agricultural Financing in Sub Saharan Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Edward M. Mungai ◽  
S. Wagura Ndiritu ◽  
Izael Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Combining ambitious climate policies with efforts to eradicate poverty

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjoern Soergel ◽  
Elmar Kriegler ◽  
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky ◽  
Nico Bauer ◽  
Marian Leimbach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Sub Saharan

AbstractClimate change threatens to undermine efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. However, climate policies could impose a financial burden on the global poor through increased energy and food prices. Here, we project poverty rates until 2050 and assess how they are influenced by mitigation policies consistent with the 1.5 °C target. A continuation of historical trends will leave 350 million people globally in extreme poverty by 2030. Without progressive redistribution, climate policies would push an additional 50 million people into poverty. However, redistributing the national carbon pricing revenues domestically as an equal-per-capita climate dividend compensates this policy side effect, even leading to a small net reduction of the global poverty headcount (−6 million). An additional international climate finance scheme enables a substantial poverty reduction globally and also in Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining national redistribution with international climate finance thus provides an important entry point to climate policy in developing countries.

scholarly journals Managing Climate Change: The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Building Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Christopher Graham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Research increasingly suggests that climate change has intensified the frequency of droughts, floods, and other environmental disasters across sub-Saharan Africa. In response to the resulting array of climate-induced challenges, various stakeholders are working collectively to build climate resilience in rural and urban communities and trans-continentally. This paper examines key climate resilience-building projects that have been implemented across sub-Saharan Africa through multi-stakeholder partnerships. It uses a vulnerabilities assessment approach to examine the strategic value of these projects in managing the mitigation of climate shocks and long-term environmental changes. There are still many challenges to building climate resilience in the region, but through multi-stakeholder partnerships, sub-Saharan African nations are expanding their capacity to pool resources and build collective action aimed at financing and scaling up innovative climate solutions. This article contributes to ongoing interdisciplinary academic, management, and policy discourses on global climate adaptation focused on populations and landscapes most at risk.

Integrating evidence of potential impacts of climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristal Jones ◽  
Andreea Nowak ◽  
Erika Berglund ◽  
Willow Grinnell ◽  
Emmanuel Temu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Smart Agriculture ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
National Governments

Abstract National governments across Sub-Saharan Africa include climate-smart agriculture (CSA) - context-specific interventions that support resilience, productivity, and climate mitigation-in plans and policies and strategies to jointly address climate change, agricultural production and rural livelihood goals. This paper synthesizes the evidence on field-based CSA management practices generated through ten years of research led by the CGIAR in Tanzania, an agriculturally diverse country in East Africa that has prioritized climate-smart agriculture practices in its climate adaptation strategies. Tanzania provides an illustrative example of how countries can use evidence of impacts, synergies and tradeoffs to prioritize activities for sustainable development.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Climate Change Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Climate-Smart Agriculture among Small-Scale Farmers

Climate ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor O. Abegunde ◽  
Melusi Sibanda ◽  
Ajuruchukwu Obi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Smart Agriculture ◽  
Small Scale Farmers ◽  
Farming Households

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as a credible alternative to tackle food insecurity under the changing climate is gaining wide acceptance. However, many developing countries have realized that concepts that have been recommended as solutions to existing problems are not suitable in their contexts. This paper synthesizes a subset of literature on CSA in the context of small-scale agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa as it relates to the need for CSA, factors influencing CSA adoption, and the challenges involved in understanding and scaling up CSA. Findings from the literature reveal that age, farm size, the nature of farming, and access to extension services influence CSA adoption. Many investments in climate adaptation projects have found little success because of the sole focus on the technology-oriented approach whereby innovations are transferred to farmers whose understanding of the local farming circumstances are limited. Climate-smart agriculture faces the additional challenge of a questionable conceptual understanding among policymakers as well as financing bottlenecks. This paper argues that the prospects of CSA in small-scale agriculture rest on a thorough socio-economic analysis that recognizes the heterogeneity of the small farmer environment and the identification and harnessing of the capacities of farming households for its adoption and implementation.

scholarly journals Local institutions and indigenous knowledge in adoption and scaling of climate-smart agricultural innovations among sub-Saharan smallholder farmers

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifton Makate
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Smart Agriculture

Purpose The purpose of this study is to discuss how enhancing the role of local institutions (LI) and incorporating indigenous knowledge (IK) in climate change adaptation planning can improve adoption and scaling success of climate-smart agriculture innovations. Design/methodology/approach A review of relevant literature from sub-Saharan Africa was used to answer the study research questions. Findings Embracing IK and LI in climate change adaptation projects can enhance adoption and scaling success of climate-smart agriculture innovations in smallholder farming. Such efforts will improve: information gathering and dissemination, mobilization of resources, establishment of useful networks with relevant stakeholders, capacity building farmers on various fronts and provision of leadership in climate adaptation programs. Practical implications Fully embracing IK and LI can improve the scaling of climate-smart innovations only if development partners recognize IK systems that are to be transformed and build on them instead of trying to replace them. Also, participatory approaches in scaling innovations will enhance input from rural people in climate change adaptation programs. Originality/value Development interventions aimed at taking proven effective climate-smart innovations to scale must, therefore, engage local communities and their indigenous institutions as active stakeholders in designing, planning and implementation of their climate adaptation programs.

scholarly journals Resilient Governance Regimes That Support Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Cities: Learning From Local Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Vidal Merino ◽  
Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar ◽  
Aasha Subedi ◽  
Ana Polgar ◽  
Catherine Van Den Hoof
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Sub Saharan

Local governments in Sub-Saharan Africa face the daunting task of high urban growth and potentially devastating impacts of climate change across local communities and the economy. Urban and peri-urban food production can be among nature-based strategies planned for improving urban food security, reducing emissions, and climate adaptation. Co-operative governance, strategic planning, and accountable institutions are needed to support urban agriculture (UA), in the face of climate risks, unplanned urban development, the gendered nature of food provision, and the inability of urban farmers to self-organize toward optimal market and land access outcomes. Using a case study approach guided by qualitative content analysis with information derived from web analysis, we apply the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework to analyze underlying governance factors for UA in three selected Sub-Saharan African cities. Our three case cities of Kampala, Tamale and Cape Town reveal that UA is beginning to receive policy attention toward food security, and recognition for generating environmental, ecological, health, and human well-being benefits. Literature from specific cities however does not yet signal a local awareness and policy thrust regarding the associated and pertinent climate adaptation benefits of urban agriculture. We therefore recommend trans-disciplinary, locally-led, planning-based, and multi-sectoral approaches, involving a range of stakeholders toward recognizing and achieving the climate adaptation, environmental (ecologically restorative) and food security benefits of pursuing urban agriculture. This signals a larger role for the practice in sustainability discourse and SDGs 2 and 11, scaling out and up across large, medium and small towns, and cities of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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