Discussion forums

CIAT, ILRI, Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (Kenya)

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Climate change is a ‘wicked problem’ – such that land use solutions require integrated approaches, across sectors and scales and between distinct actors.  Integrated landscape management is a tool to achieve just that.  This session focuses on the connection between climate adaptation and landscapes. It explores how countries can address the complexity, build necessary partnerships, while refining knowledge systems, through national adaptation plans (NAPs).

Mainstreaming adaptation into sectoral and development plans, as part of NAPs will provide greater ability to find solutions across ‘landscapes’ — via cross-sectoral planning, forging stronger linkages between silo’ed ministries and disciplines, in order to focus investment in interventions that can bring multiple benefits in various combinations (e.g. adaptation and mitigation, adaptation and livelihoods, etc.).

This session will synthesize emerging lessons learnt from 10 countries on the development of NAPs, including success stories as well as discussion of key bottlenecks.

Key questions the Forum will address

1. How can NAPs provide a means to address the nexus between water, food security, forests and energy?  How can this help overcome cross-sectoral conflicts and optimize adaptation (and other) investments?
2. How do landscapes provide a frame to address this nexus and to convene relevant actors, sectors and interventions to test viable solutions?
3. What can we learn from country experiences to address the nexus in NAPs, as countries begin this process, building off of NAPAs and other climate adaptation plans and policies?

Speakers

• Kare Chawicha

  State Minister for Environment and Forest, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Forestry, Ethiopia

• J.P Mishra

  Planning Commission, National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture(NMSA) , National Initiatives on Climate Resilient Agriculture(NICRA) India

• Kofi Delali Nutsukpo

  Deputy director, Environment and Climate Change, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana

• Stephen King’uyu

  Kenyan National Climate Change Action Plan Coordinator, Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

Moderator

• Chase Sova

  Visiting researcher, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Rapporteur

• Gabrielle Kissinger

  Principal, Lexeme Consulting