Introduction From 2018 to 2022, the Koronivia Joint Working Group on Agriculture (KJWA) was the key forum for debating global agricultural change and integrating agricultural transformation priorities into the mechanisms of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
We organised an inception Workshop in March with the Agriculture Consultative Forum (ACF), and FANRPAN to introduced iFEED to workgroup memebers and identify policy opportunities in Zambia. The outcome of the workshop led to subsequent meetings with the seperate working group mebers on crop diversifciation, irrigation and livestock and landuse change to make inputs into iFEED results and provide directions for avenues to integrate iFEED outputs in specific country policies.
A Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) approach is fundamental to agribusiness transformation in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. Work package 5 aims to bring about inclusive and scalable agribusiness innovations through targeted GESI support to UU ESA work packages 1-6. To achieve this, we produced this GESI framework on social, economic, political, and institutional barriers and opportunities to more inclusive agribusiness in the ESA region.
The training manual on cage fish farming supported the training of the aquaculture youth groups in the selected pilot communities.
A survey was conducted among 52 representatives of the African Group of Negotiators Experts Support. From this survey, the members voted that the UNFCCC online portal on climate action in food security and agriculture should have the following objectives (in the order of the highest number of respondents saying it is an objective) - information sharing, raising awareness of climate action in agriculture, and aiding fundraising.
This poster was prepared for the ‘Ethiopia CGIAR consultation workshop and launch' held last 29-30 March 2023. Showing information about NPS and it's key activities in Ethiopia.
A powerpoint presentation by Fiona Flintan presented at the virtual launch of the FAO e-learning course on Sustainable Drylands Management, 29 March 2023
