11 December 2018
UNDP, FAO Report Highlights Integration of Agriculture into NAPs
Tea pickers in Mt. Kenya region / Photo credit Neil Palmer (CIAT)
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UNDP and FAO highlight key achievements of the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans Programme from 2015 to 2018.

The publication underscores that country ownership is key to building resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards, noting that NAP-Ag has enabled climate change adaptation-informed planning and budgeting in the agriculture sectors of 11 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

5 December 2018: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) have released a publication that highlights nine key achievements of the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) Programme from 2015 to 2018.

Underscoring that country ownership is key to building resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards, the report notes that NAP-Ag has enabled climate change adaptation-informed planning and budgeting in the agriculture sectors of 11 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The Governments of Kenya, the Philippines, Thailand and Uganda, it highlights, adopted national strategic frameworks on climate change, agriculture and development in 2017 and 2018. NAP-Ag is now supporting implementation and mainstreaming of the frameworks into and across related policies in the countries.

NAP-Ag has also helped countries incorporate gender dimensions of adaptation in agriculture.

Guidance materials developed for policymakers and practitioners connect a variety of aspects relating to adaptation planning, including cost-benefit analysis, impact evaluation and monitoring. The publication points to NAP-Ag’s successes helping countries access additional pools of climate finance for adaptation work in the agricultural sector, including from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other multilateral sources. Linking to SDG 5 (gender equality), NAP-Ag has also helped countries incorporate gender dimensions of adaptation in agriculture through tailored workshops and trainings, knowledge products, and analytical tools launched by the Programme.

At a global scale, three flagship publications are being prepared: two sets of supplementary guidelines to the NAP technical guidelines on forestry and fisheries and aquaculture; and a handbook for practitioners on integrating agriculture in adaptation planning, all to be published in 2019. The report also outlines a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on ‘Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture,’ developed in partnership with the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The course materials, it notes, are publicly available online. Additional online information is available in real time, through the FAO Nap-Ag website and the UNDP Adaptation Portal.

Co-led by UNDP and FAO, the Programme is supported by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) [Publication: Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag): Programme Highlights 2015-2018]

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