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Strengthening resilience to climate change Innovative approaches and partnerships


This debate-meeting, organized in partnership with the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Africa Soil Information Service Program of the University of Columbia, will focus on the impact of climate change on agriculture, which is indeed influenced by the changes affecting climate. This implies the need to reflect on adequate solutions and to implement the means that would strengthen agricultural resilience and ability to withstand climate fluctuations and the resulting disturbances.

Face to the rapid growth of world population, agriculture is more than ever the nourishing heart of global food supply. In this regard, it is imperative to ensure ‘improved access to production inputs (improved seeds, fertilizers as part of integrated soil fertility management), the expansion of irrigation facilities and recovery of rainwater, the improvement of extension and advisory services on climate smart agriculture, increased access to finance, and strengthening human and institutional capacities, besides innovative solutions to achieve and maintain the achieved impact. ''

During this debate-meeting, speakers will also discuss the question related to the contribution of science and technology as inputs to this resilience, which necessarily calls for both public and private investments.   In this respect, institutional and operational partnerships are a global framework for generating the required and expected innovations in the field.

The debate-meeting is focused on the strategic objective of appealing to innovative approaches and useful partnerships, with the institutional objective being to implement a comprehensive strategy offering the most promising agricultural resilience face to climate change nowadays.

The qualitative objective of this debate-meeting is to share knowledge and experience in relation to agricultural resilience consolidation.  To achieve this goal, the speakers will highlight the following key points:

  • The lessons learned from national-scale projects that take an integrated approach to rural development in enhancing resilience to climate change;
  • The extent to which Islamic microfinance can be deployed on a large scale to support the farmers and Agro-industries associated with it in developing a productive and resilient agriculture and to diversify rural economies, and
  • The identification of institutional support needs and agricultural policies that could enhance decisions related to investing in suitable agricultural practices that provide both climate adaptation and mitigation effects, as much as possible.

Time

Activity

Moderator

10:30 - 10.35

Dr. Abdullateef Bello, Senior statistician, complex of chief economist, Islamic Development Bank

 

Dr. Bashir Jama Adan, Chief of the Agriculture and Food Security Division, The Islamic Development Bank

10. 35 – 11.05

Lecturer: Dr Gustavo Fonseca, program director at the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Washington DC.

Managing the "mitigation-adaptation" relation: how can agriculture in developing countries achieve a win-win solution that reduces climate change?

Dr. Markus Walsh,  Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS), University of Columbia, NY

Land degradation, soil health, and adapting to climate change: what predictive technologies can be cost effectively deployed to support management decisions in both public and private sectors in developing countries? What would it take to build  the required human and institutional capacity?

Dr. Bashir Jama Adan, Chief of the Agriculture and Food Security Division, The Islamic Development Bank

 

Panel Discussions :

 

11:05 – 11:25

1)                 Why is investing in integrated water solutions important for improving the adaptation of agriculture in the arid and semi-arid regions in developing countries? What are the practical options that can be updated by public-private partnerships?

Dr. Ismahane A. Elouafi, Director General, the International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), UAE

2)                What are the practical solutions for adapting small-scale agriculture to climate change in West Africa? What has been successful? What has failed?
M. Boukary Sawadogo, Project coordinator for building resilience to recurrent droughts in Burkina Faso

3)                What are the practical solutions for adapting small scale agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa to climate change?  What has been successful? What has failed?
Ms. Ketty Lumaro, Deputy Secretary and focal point of the Dryland Project, Prime Minister's Cabinet, Uganda

4)                What Islamic microfinance products can be widely deployed in order to adapt farmers and agro-pastoralists to climate change? What is needed to meet the challenges involved?
Mohamed Khalid Jawahir,  Micro-Finance Specialist, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, The Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah

5)                What are the practical solutions to small scale water harvesting that can be largely diffused to enhance the resilience of small farmers and agro-pastoralists to climate change? How can they be permanently maintained post to project funding?

Ammar Mohamed Ali Mohamed, Deputy  General Director, Unit for  barrages implementation, Sudan

Dr. Bashir Jama Adan, Chief of the Agriculture and Food Security Division, The Islamic Development Bank

11:25 -12.15

Plenary Discussion: Q & A session

Moderator:   Dr. Bashir Jama Adan, Chief of the Agriculture and Food Security Division, The Islamic Development Bank

12:15 -12:25

Summary presentation of key messages/ lessons

Rapporteur - Regional Office Team of Rabat

12:25: 12:30

Thank you note- Sidi Mohamed Ouldtaleb, Director, MENA Regiona, Islamic Development Bank

Moderator:   Dr. Bashir Jama Adan, Chief of the Agriculture and Food Security Division, The Islamic Development Bank

12:30

End of session: Coffee/Tea; Display of posters, books, etc.

 

 

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