Presentation by Prof. Henry Mahoo at learning event number 7, session 1, room G. From Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) 2011

1. COP 17
Durban, South Africa
28th Nov. – 9th Dec.2011
Agriculture and Rural
Development Day (AARD)
3 rd Dec.2011
Prof. Henry Mahoo (PhD)
Sokoine University of Agriculture
Morogoro, Tanzania

2. Project title :
Managing risk, reducing
vulnerability and enhancing
agricultural productivity under a
changing climate in the Greater
Horn of Africa

3. Project outputs
• To enhance the overall information base
• To develop and avail Decision aides that
support strategic and tactical decision
making
• To assess the impacts of climate change on
vulnerability of agricultural systems
• To enhance the operational and technical
capacity of national institutions

4. Partner
Ins*tu*ons
(9)
• Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR),
Ethiopia
• National Meteorological Agency (NMA), Ethiopia
• Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD), Kenya
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-
Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Kenya
• University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya
• Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC), Sudan
• Sudan Meteorological Authority (SMA), Sudan
• Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania
• Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA), Tanzania
•

5. Collabora*ng
Ins*tu*ons
(11)
Ø Eastern-Shore Zone Bureau of Agriculture, District of Meki, Ethiopia
Ø Western-Hararge Bureau of Agriculture, District of Miesso, Ethiopia
Ø Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Machakos, Kenya
Ø Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA),
Kenya
Ø Ministry of Agriculture, Kitui, Mwingi, and Mutomo Districts, Kenya
Ø Gedarif State Ministry of Agriculture, Sudan
Ø Higher Council of Natural Resources and Environment, Sudan
Ø District Agricultural Development Office (DALDO), Same District,
Tanzania
Ø District Council, Same, Tanzania
Ø Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives (MAFC),
Tanzania
Ø Same Agricultural Improvement Programme (SAIPRO), Tanzania

6. RESULTS:
Some set of technologies assembled
• core team of experts to collect, repackage and
disseminate weather forecasts using sms
technology.
• the tool is still in the testing stage by Tanzania
Meteorological Agency (TMA) and selected
group of farmers.

7. WAHIP-C Planter developed in Sudan
• The project designed and developed
planters that are being used for in-situ
water harvesting practice for both
crops and trees. The planters have
gained popularity among farmers as
well as other stakeholders in Sudan

8. WAHIP-C Planted developed in Sudan

9.
Increased productivity
• In project sites in Ethiopia, use of
improved farm implements have
helped to save time and labor for
farmers and improved yields of
maize from 0.8 tons/per ha to over
6.1 tons/ha

10. Mean grain yield of maize (q/ha) from different
strategies averaged over 7 sites at Meki, Ethiopia 2010

11. In Tanzania
• The comparisons of crop yields indicate a
significant increase (at 10% level) in maize
yield among project participants since the
project intervened. Maize was the primary crop
in the project processes including the FFS
where farmers tested and integrated best risk-
proofing technologies and weather forecasts.

12. Maize yield levels during baseline and now between
project and non-project farmers - Tanzania

13. Sustainability and scale-up.
capacity
building
Three women, one each from Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia
undertook MSc. training in climate change research
issues under the project. The graduate level training for
women helped to broaden the capacity of women
expertise in relation to climate change adaptation in
agriculture. Moreover, purposeful selection of farmer
field schools with climate information resulted in
enhanced capacity among the women who are more
vulnerable to minimize climate related negative impacts
in their livelihoods.

14. Sustainability
• In Kenya, seasonal climate information is now
considered as substantive agenda at Provincial
and District Agriculture Committees. Capacity
of researchers in Meteorological Departments
and Agriculture Research and Extension agents
in downscaling climate forecasts to local scales
has also increased in all the participating
countries.

15. Sustainability
• In Sudan the Gedarif State Ministry of
Agriculture (GSMA) fabricated additional four
more of the planter developed by the project
and were operated in four different pilot farms
for training farmers. Farmers have started to
fabricate their own planters at local workshops
and are using them for farm operations. The
GSMA is planning to hold a series of training
workshops for the local artisans on the
fabrication of WaHIP planter

16. Sustainability
In Tanzania,
• The CORE TEAM work of
collecting, repackaging and
disseminating weather forecasts
has been integrated into the Same
District Agricultural Development
Plans annual budgets

17.
Acknowledgement
The work reported here was supported by the
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
(CCAA) program, a joint initiative of
Canada s International Development Research
Centre (IDRC) and the United Kingdom s
Department for International Development
(DFID).