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Guidance on tools to strengthen
water security and agriculture
in NAPs
Julia Wolf
Natural Resources Officer, FAO
Country Support for Water Security and Agriculture in NAPs and Climate Finance | 09 June 2015
Climate change impacts on
food and water
Crops &
livestock
Direct effects on crop growth and their need for water,
as well as soil fertility, water supply for irrigation, and
prevalence of pests and diseases.
For livestock, quality and amount of feed supply and
the carrying capacity of pastureland.
Forests
Lack of water availability can affect rate of tree growth,
while disturbance regimes (e.g. fire, pests and storms),
or drive economic and social changes caused by
climate change, such as population movements and
changes in markets (e.g. increased demand for biofuels
to replace fossil fuels).
Climate change impacts on
food and water
Fisheries &
Aquaculture
Production systems are likely to suffer from
increased water temperatures, sea-level rise and
decreased pH, changes in aquatic systems’
productivity and disease risks, flooding, droughts
and increases in frequency and intensity of storms
and other extreme weather events
Coastal areas Rising temperature will affect coral reefs. Damaged
reefs will no longer provide coastal protection
which, in combination with rising sea levels and
increased extreme weather events.
FAO Tools: Water and Agriculture
FAO
Tools
FAO’s work on the
“agriculture supplement”
FAO is developing a supplement on agriculture (including crops, forestry,
fisheries and aquaculture) to the NAPs Technical Guidelines prepared by
the LEG.
Objectives:
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To facilitate the integration of food security and agriculture concerns
and perspectives into the NAP process;
To enable agriculture stakeholders to better identify and understand
the issues at stake in a mid/long term perspective and to empower
them to participate efficiently in the process; and
To provide guidance for non-agriculture specialists to understand the
issues at stake.
Timeline:
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Consultations with UNFCCC, the LEG, other UN
Agencies and countries are ongoing (2014-2015).
To be launched at COP 21.
Element A. Laying the Ground
Work and Addressing Gaps
A.1 Initiating and
launching of the NAP
process
a. Briefing on NAP process - adaptation challenges & opportunities of the
agriculture sectors
b. Coordinating mechanism, available technical and financial support for the
adaptation of the agriculture sectors
c. National vision and mandate for NAPs in the agriculture sectors
A.2 Stocktaking
a. Stocktaking of adaptation activities and national investment plans
b. Synthesis of available knowledge and methodologies on impacts,
vulnerability and adaptation
c. Capacity and institutional gap analysis
A.3 Addressing capacity
gaps and weaknesses in
the undertaking of the
NAP process
a. Building institutional and technical capacity for the agriculture sectors
b. Opportunities for integrating adaptation into development of the agriculture
sectors
A.4 Literature review on
national processes
a. Compile development objectives, policies, plans and programmes
b. Synergy between development and adaptation objectives, policies, plans
and programmes
Element B.Preparatory elements
B.1 Analyzing current
and future climate
change for
agriculture
production and
sustainability
a.
b.
c.
d.
B.2. Assessing
impacts and
vulnerabilities and
identifying adaptation
options for the
agricultural sectors
a. Assess vulnerability to climate change in the agriculture sectors, subnational
and national
b. Rank climate change risks and vulnerabilities in the agriculture sectors
c. Identify agriculture systems constraints on productivity and sustainability
d. Identify and assess adaptation options to address priority vulnerabilities in the
agriculture sector
B.3 Selecting and
appraising adaptation
options in agriculture
sectors
a. Select the appraisal methodology and criteria (e.g. Cost-benefits, environmental
impact, sustainability, productivity, resilience) of adaptation options in
agriculture sectors
b. Appraise options using selected methodologies, consider environmental and
socio-economic impacts of adaptation measures
c. Verification consultation on ranking of adaptation options with national
stakeholders
Consult with NAP Core team for climate information for other sectors
Analysis of current climate and impacts of agriculture systems and groups
Modeling of climate scenarios of agriculture systems (physical elements)
Future climate scenarios and possible impacts in agriculture systems
Element B.Preparatory elements
B.4. Compiling and
communicating
agricultural
perspectives of NAPs
a. Adaptation priorities of the agriculture sectors in the draft national adaptation
plan for sector and national investment plans
b. Compile agriculture perspective as a agriculture component or into the
national adaptation plans to process endorsement at the national level
B.5. Selecting and
appraising adaptation
options in agriculture
sectors
a. Identify opportunities and constraints for integrating climate change into
planning
b. Build and enhance capacity for integrating climate change into planning
c. Facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation into existing national
and sub national planning processes
FAO Tool Matrix for NAPs
• A Tool Matrix is being
developed to assist those
driving the NAP process in
integrating the agriculture
sectors, cross-cutting
issues such as food
security, water and land,
nutrition and gender
equality are also included.
• Agencies working in related topics are welcome to contribute
their tools.
A Joint UNDP-FAO Programme:
“To integrate climate change risks and opportunities as they
relate to agriculture sector-related livelihood options within
existing national planning and budgeting processes”
The programme is funded by the Federal Ministry for the
Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
(BMUB) through the International Climate Initiative (ICI)
Integrating Agriculture in NAPs
Safeguarding livelihoods and promoting resilience in National Adaptation
Plans (NAPs)
Nepal
Philippines
Thailand
Vietnam
Uruguay
Kenya
Uganda
Zambia
Thank you!
For more information, please visit:
FAO NAPs Coordination Global
[email protected]
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