Aagw2010 June 10 John Owuor Combating Poverty and Improving Livelihood Through Agroforestry

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COMBATING POVERTY AND

IMPROVING LIVELIHOOD THROUGH

AGROFORESTRY

SCC - VI Agroforestry Eastern Africa

John Owuor [email protected]


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About SCC-Vi Agroforestry

Past 25 years working in the Lake Victoria basin

Vi-Agroforestry has bee doing agroforestry in East

Africa; Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzaniabut

around Lake VictoriaObjectives are to reached on household level ;

To increase food and nutritional security

To increase fuel-wood availability To increase income


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Ambition:Improved living conditions

for150 000 farmerhouseholdswithin the Lake

Victoria Basin by 2011


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Key drivers and manifestations of vulnerability

in the Lake Victoria basin

Population pressure

30 million in the basin today

and 60 million 2030

Land degradation Agricultural practices

Overgrazing

Deforestation for Energy

supply

Inflation

Staple foods

Fertilisers

gasoline

Disease prevalence

Water borne

Vector borne

HIV /Aids

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FOOD INSECURITY LIVELIHOODS COMPROMISED


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Gender & HIV/AIDS mainstreamed

Main Components

Land use, Environment and Climate

ChangeAgroforestry, Sustainable energy, Climate variability

adaptation & mitigation, SALM practices

Farm Enterprise DevelopmentAgroforestry, Farm planning, Business, development,

Value addition, Marketing

Farmer groups and demand-driven

advisoryservicesBulking, Value addition, Marketing, Financial services,

Community facilitators, Outreach

Capacity

building&

trainingFor farmer

groups, staff,

S/holders etc.

Lobby &

advocacyfor

sustainable

land use

mgnt

Gender & HIV/AIDS mainstreaming


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How we do it ( activities)

Agroforestry on farm, homestead, boundary &

hedgerows

Improved yields & diets

Fuel wood production,

soil & water management, hedgerows

Fodder for livestock management ( dairy farming)

UnsustainableSustainable charcoal production Farming as a business by income generating

activities.


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Victoria basin and Rivers basins

Basins Areas

(km sq)

Kagera 58,500 High pop

Yala, Nzoia &Sio

17, 500

Gurumeti 14,200

Mara 13,900

Katonga 8,700

Isonga 10,300

Magoga 3,800

Basin Area 261,000 sq. km, land area 192,000 sq. km


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Agroforestry and food security

Ability to

Educate

children

Income

generating

Activity

Financial

services

Farm

Planning

Joint

Mkting &

Sales (value

Addition)

Demand

driven &

Advisory

Balanced diet

Increase in firewood & improved use of

alternative energy


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GIS at Micro-scale

Piloting 2 Carbon project

Western Kenya carbon project ( Kenya)

Carbon credit are accumulated before payment

Post payment system

Plan Vivo Foundation ( Kagera in Tanzania)

Farmers are paid in advance to accumulate carbon

Pre payment system


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Western Kenya Smallholder Agriculture

Carbon Finance Project

6 divisions

45,000 ha targeted

60,000 households

29 years


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Plan Vivo Foundation

Kagera 1 ward in Nyaishozi

division 1130 ha targeted

24 households pilot

10 years

105,307 tCO2e

13 USD/tCO2e

Project is Kagera basin Tanzania

Project has just been certified

for carbon

Scaling up program has

already started

Target 300 farmers


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BioCF: Western Kenya Smallholder Agriculture Carbon Finance project

Plan Vivo; Carbon management and rural livelihoods: Emiti Nibwo Burola

project

Kenya Kisumu and Kitale Tanzania Kagera (Plan Vivo)

SALM practicessoil and agriculture carbon Agro forestry systems - tree carbon

World bank BioCF certified using Voluntary Carbon

Standard

Sweden companies and individuals certified through Plan

Vivo system or standard

Farm group contracts Farmer individual contracts

No advance payments but staged on delivery Advance payments and staged

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Key participants in Vi Programme Carbon projectsare small-scale farmers

Both aim voluntary carbon offsetting, corporate social responsibility, or simply to support PES in an area, or inrespect of ecosystem services that they have an interest in supporting


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GIS/GPS trainingis crucial


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Data Using Trimble & Arcpad 7


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Basin and Groups location

Interpolation

Prediction

Trends


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Farmers to be aware of climate change and adapt

Farmer to keep their farm record

Farmers to build networks


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GIS at Macro-scale == Basin Analysis

Baseline data:

Soil Erosion and transportation model Already developed models e.g RUSLE

Deforestation Rate and change over time

Competing activity e.g urban or agriculture

Siltation

Population changes Rates and impacts on food security, health etc

Help refine global models geographic models to adaptthem to local scenarios


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Environmental hotspots monitoring


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Scaling up and out the basin

Farmers & Groups

Scale out Scale out

Scale Up

VS& L

Institutions

Organised Marketing

Micro GIS

Macro scale GIS


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Potentials for GIS

Current Activities

Fitting GIS into the programme monitoring system

Taking the baseline of current activities through GIS andsocio-economics

Tracing agroforestry footprints into the 1980s and 1990s

and current 2000s in previous areas of operation


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GIS as Monitoring & Evaluation ToolTime dependent change assessment corroborated by

previous socio-economic data earlier Taking baseline of current activities through GIS and socio-

economics Basins analysis

Tracing agroforestry footprints into the 1980s and 1990s in

previous areas of operation

Sat images and looking at AOI

Measure impact of agroforestry in the previous areas of operation

Fitting GIS into the programme group monitoring system

For CDM the project using grid reference points


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WEBWorld bank developed tools and methodologies

integrated in a website (iSMART) for project willing

to sell carbon under Clean Development Mechanism

(CDM)

Methodology for small holder agriculture still beingrefined


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Plan Vivo Foundation


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Where can CG bridge the gap?

Downscaling some of the models for local

applications

Crop window model ( IFPRI)

Domain analysis (IFPRI) Climate change predictions 2010, 2030 (ILRI)

Model validation and update on the groundsmaller organizations can be of help

Help make the models become more & more accurate


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