PRESENTATION ON
THE WAY FORWARD FOR
UGANDA’S CSA PROGRAM
2015 - 2025
4TH DECEMBER 2015
AFRICA PAVILLION SALLE 2
COP 21 PARIS, FRANCE

BACKGROUND
CSA Program development informed by:
– Uganda’s Agricultural sector climate change
vulnerability study
– Uganda Agricultural Sector Scoping study on climate
change mitigation
– National Adaptation Program of Action on Climate
Change
– UNFCCC Second National Communication
– National Climate Change policy
– A number of CSA pilot initiatives

Institutional arrangements
• MAAIF jointly with MWE spearhead
implementation of the CSA Program
– Working within the Inter-ministerial Cooperation
Framework on Sustainable Land Management
• MAAIF has established
– A MAAIF Climate Change Committee
– A Multi stakeholder Climate Smart Agriculture
Taskforce (Community of Practice)
– CSA Networks for CSOs, Private Sector and Faith Based
Organizations

Road Map for the Development of
Uganda’s
CSA Program1. Multi-Sectoral team set up to develop the CSA program - January 2015
2. Multi sectoral team participated in regional drafting Meeting in Arusha - January 2015
3. Working Sessions (Meetings) of Country Team in - Country - February 2015
4. Presented of first draft to CSA Taskforce meeting March 2015
5. Expanded Multi sectoral team reviewed Draft CSA Program supported by regional experts
– 1-2 April 2015
6. Continued Working Sessions (meetings) of Country Team in - April 2015
7. Presentation of draft CSA program to farmers organizations and Members of parliament
May 2015
8. Circulation of draft CSA program to stakeholders for Comments May – Mid June 2015
9. Presentation of draft CSA program to private Sector organizations early June 2015
10. Validation Workshop for CSA program 29 June 2015
11. Finalization of the CSA program July 2015

Uganda’s Agriculture Highly
vulnerable to climate change
• Dominated by Smallholder farmers
• Largely rain-fed
• Characterized by low use of external inputs
(such as improved seeds, agro-chemicals and
fertilizer).
• Poor land management practices
• High post-harvest losses currently estimated
at 30%.
• Rudimentary production tools which

Agriculture GHG Emissions in
Uganda
Table 1: GHG emissions from the different sector source categories
Sector GHGs Total sector emission
(Gg CO2 eq.)
% of total emissions
Agriculture N2O, CH4 20,970 57.4
LULCIF CO2, N2O, CH4 10,465 28.7
Energy CH4, CO2, N2O, 3,634 12.2
Waste CH4 808 1.7
Source: MWE (2014) Uganda Second National Communication to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change, GoU/GEF/UNEP, pp 174.

VISION OF THE UGANDA CSA PROGRAM
2015 - 2025
A “Climate resilient and low
carbon agriculture and food
systems contributing to
increased food security,
wealth and sustainable
economic growth in line with
the National Vision 2040.”

Objectives of the CSA Program
i. Increase agricultural productivity through
climate smart agriculture practices & approaches
that consider gender
ii. Increase the resilience of agricultural
landscapes & communities to the impacts of
climate change
iii. Increase the contribution of the agricultural
sector to low carbon development pathways
through transformation of agricultural practices.
iv. Strengthen the enabling environment for
efficient & effective scaling up of climate smart
agriculture.
v. Increase partnerships & resource mobilization
initiatives to support implementation of climate
smart agriculture.

PROGRAMMATIC RESULT
AREAS
 Uganda CSA Programme aims to build
resilience of agricultural farming systems for
enhanced food and nutrition security through
six Programmatic Result Areas, namely:
▫ Result Area 1: Improved Productivity
and incomes
▫ Result Area 2: Building resilience and
associated mitigation co-
benefits
▫ Result Area 3: Value Chain Integration
▫ Result Area 4: Research for
Development and
Innovations
▫ Result Area 5: CSA Knowledge,

Some Key Targets for the CSA
Program by 2025
• Adoption of climate smart technologies and sustainable land management
practices by 1 million farming households.
• Post harvest losses along staple food crops (maize, rice, cassava, beans),
livestock and fish value chains reduced from 30% to less than 10%.
• 20,000 ha of micro irrigation schemes developed to benefit 40,000
households
• Output for Urban and peri-urban agriculture increased by 30%.
• Marketed output of food and cash crops, livestock and fish products
increased by 50%.
• Stunting and underweight in children as well as mineral deficiencies in
children and women of reproductive age reduced by 50%.
• Farm forestry increased by 20%.
• Proportion of women and youth participating in CSA initiatives increased by
50% and 20% respectively.
• Increased funding to research, development and innovations by 50%.

FOLLOW ON ACTIONS
1. CSA Program has been integrated in the New 5 year
Agricultural Sector Strategic Plan (ASSP) and NDP
2. CSA Program has been integrated into the Uganda INDC
3. Identification and Documentation of CSA best practices and
sharing of lessons from pilot CSA projects among stake
holders
4. Development of CSA Manual for Extension Workers and
Farmers in progress
5. Awareness raising of the CSA Program among key policy
and decision makers, actors and stakeholders in progress
6. Integration of CSA Program priority intervention into new
and on-going projects
7. Partnership building and resource mobilisation are being

Some Ingredients of success identified in Pilot CSA
initiatives• Minimum 50% women participation in all CSA activities
• Putting more emphasis on farmer to farmer learning visits
as a key approach to promoting uptake of CSA
technologies/practices
• Use of schools to reach out to the youths and the wider
community
• Value Chain Approach especially the integrate post harvest
technologies and agro-processing
• Support transformation of farmers groups into viable
economic organisations (Producer Cooperatives)
• Integrate use of ICT to access weather and marketing
information
• Link farmers organisation to private sector (input and
marketing) firms

Building Blocks for CSA Program
Farmer to Farmer Learning
approaches women take
leadership
Farming of the Future for
Future generations

Building Blocks for CSA Program
Farmers opening up ADP
conservation Agriculture Garden
in Northern Uganda
Minister of Agriculture
inspecting a CSA Coffee Banana
garden in western Uganda

Building Blocks for CSA Program
Private Sector Agro-input companies
display their products at a CSA Community
Group open day in Eastern Uganda
Improving Post Harvest
handling at farm level

Building Blocks for CSA Program
Small holder Farmers
organised in cooperatives
Registered Cooperative
Enterprise

CSA yield increase visible year after
year in the same planting space
2015 2014

Some of the partnerships supporting
CSA Projects / Initiatives in Uganda
• MAAIF/COMESA/EAC/Norway, DFID, EU/FAO/ Regional CSA
initiative
• MAAIF/COMESA/ EAC/ Norway, DFID, EU/UNDP/ Enhancing
Adoption of CSA project
• MAAIF /GEF/UNDP/ SLM projects Integrating CSA
• MAAIF /GEF/World Bank/ NARO/ATAAS SLM project
• BTC/CDM/MWE
• Rural Enterprise Development Services (REDS) Private
Sector
• Cooperative League of the United States of America
(CLUSA) NGO
• Uganda Faiths Network for Environmental Action (UFNEA)
FBO
• 8 Belgium NGOs with Local Partners