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Global Environment Facility Draft Project Document GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY DRAFT PROJECT DOCUMENT PROJECT TITLE: Strengthening capacities of agricultural producers to cope with climate change for increased food security through the Farmers Field School approach PROJECT SYMBOL: GCP/MOZ/112/LDF Recipient Country: Mozambique Resource Partner: Global Environment Facility/Least Developed Country Fund (GEF/LDCF) FAO project ID: 622616 GEF/LDCF/SCCF Project ID: 5433 Executing Partner(s): Ministry of Agriculture and Food security (MASA) and Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development (MITADER) Expected EOD (starting date): July 2015 Expected NTE (End date): June 2019 Contribution to FAO’s a. Strategic Objective/Organizational Result: SO-2, SO-5 Strategic Framework1 b. Country Programme Framework: Priority Areas 2 – Food availability, access and consumption; and 3 – Environment, natural resources, climate change and disaster risk reduction c. Country Programme Framework: Outcome 2.1: Sustainable increase of crop and animal production and productivity; Output 2.1.1: Small farmers use improved agricultural and animal production techniques in a sustainable way; and Outcome 3.1: Improved natural resources management and resilience to food and agricultural threats; Output 3.1.2: Enhanced adaptation and mitigation capacity of vulnerable communities to climate change and emergencies GEF Focal Area/LDCF/SCCF: Climate Change (Adaptation) GEF/LDCF/SCCF Strategic Objectives: CC-A – 1: Reduce vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change, including variability, at local, national, regional and global level. CC-A – 2: Increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability, at local, national, regional and global level. CC-A - 3: Promote transfer and adoption of adaptation technology. 1 For projects operated by country offices, it is necessary to link projects in FPMIS at OR level. For all other projects, linkage at product/service level is necessary 1 Environmental Impact Assessment Category (insert √): A B C √ Financing Plan: GEF/LDCF/SCCF allocation: USD 9,000,000 Co-financing: FAO - Accelerate Progress towards MDG1c USD 22,400,000 (in cash) in Mozambique – FAO/EU/MDG - Food Security and Nutrition for Gaza USD 2,500,000 (in cash) project – GCP/MOZ/116/BEL MASA - Government Support USD 770,000 (in kind) - PRONEA Support Project (PSP) USD 1,274,657 (in cash) MITADER USD 400,000 (in kind) Subtotal Co-financing: USD 27,344,657 Total Budget: USD 36,344,657 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mozambique is a country located in Southeastern Africa, bordering the Mozambique Channel between South Africa and Tanzania, and has a land boundary of 4571 km and a coastline of 2700 km on the Indian Ocean. It remains one of the poorest countries in the world with a per capita income of 646 USD in 2013, ranking 178th out of 187 countries in the 2014 Human Development Index (Index: 0.393). With almost 80 per cent of the labor force working in the agricultural sector, the dependence on natural resources renders the population highly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. The proposed project will intervene in 15 districts within the four provinces of Tete, Sofala, Manica and Gaza. In recent decades, climate change has increasingly impacted Mozambique and in particular the lives of smallholder farmers who are highly dependent on natural resources. Temperatures are increasing, rainfall patterns are changing, and the traditional hot and rainy season and cold and dry season are increasingly variable, which affects the planning of agricultural activities. Climate models are predicting geographically varied gains and losses depending on changing rain patterns. The adverse effects of climate change also impacts the livestock sector as changes in precipitation patterns affect the availability of forage, grazing areas and drying up of watering points. Over the past decade, Mozambique has developed a comprehensive framework of laws, policies, strategies, programmes and action plans addressing rural development, adaptation to climate change and the agricultural sector. However, there are number of challenges that remain to ensure that Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) is fully mainstreamed and integrated into the agricultural sector, such as awareness and internal capacities of key stakeholders including extension services to foster CCA technologies and practices, and cross-sector coordination. In response to the above challenges, the objective of the proposed project is to “enhance the capacity of Mozambique’s agricultural and pastoral sectors to cope with climate change, by up scaling farmers’ adoption of CCA technologies and practices through a network of already established 2 Farmers Field Schools (FFS), and by mainstreaming CCA concerns and strategies into on-going agricultural development initiatives, policies and programming.” The project strategy is built on four main components. The first is to include improved climate resilient agricultural technologies and approaches in the framework of the Strategic Plan for the Agricultural Sector (PEDSA) and its investment plan (PNISA) with an emphasis on provinces and districts assisted by the Accelerate Progress towards Millennium Development Goal 1c in Mozambique project (MDG1c) and Food Security and Nutrition for Gaza projects. The second component consists of capacity building and promotion of climate resilient agricultural technologies and approaches through Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and other extension approaches in the framework of the PRONEA Support Project (PSP), MDG1c and Food Nutrition and Security for Gaza projects, and other initiatives. The third is to ensure climate change adaptation strategies are mainstreamed into agricultural sector policies and programs with emphasis on rural extension/outreach strategies and plans. And the fourth is to implement a sound monitoring and evaluation framework. In order to deliver the above-mentioned objective, and in line with the four components, the project includes four outcomes. The first outcome is to increase awareness and knowledge of national, provincial and district-level managers and farmers to include CCA best practices and measures into on-going rural development programmes. The second outcome is to promote the adoption of improved CCA strategies, practices and a broader choice of adapted genetic material, in up to 15 districts covering at least three production systems (staple crops, vegetables, mixed tree/crop/animal production systems) through the FFS network that are assisted by FAO MDG1c and Food Security and Nutrition for Gaza projects and other partner programs. The third outcome is to increase institutional capacity and cross-sector coordination for designing and implementing efficient extension/outreach approaches, strategies and mechanisms in support of mainstreaming CCA in the agricultural and animal production sector. The fourth outcome is to ensure that project implementation is based on results based management and application of project lessons learned in future operation facilitated. Directly, the project will support at least 80,000 farmers through an existing network of 3200 FFS to develop and implement new approaches, practices including the provision of genetic plant material to increase climate resilience. The project will train 1500 FFS facilitators and at least 200 non-FFS extentionists in providing climate resilient strategies and practices. The project will also build institutional capacity and cross-sector coordination for implementing approaches to mainstream CCA in rural development and the agricultural sector. 3 TABLE OF CONTENT SECTION 1 – RELEVANCE AND GENERAL CONTEXT .............................................................. 9 1.1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 9 1.2 RATIONALE ....................................................................................................................... 17 1.2.1 Baseline Situation ............................................................................................................. 17 1.2.2 Challenges ........................................................................................................................ 22 1.2.3 Additionality ..................................................................................................................... 28 1.3 FAO’s Comparative Advantage............................................................................................ 32 1.4 PARTICIPANT AND STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS ........................................................ 32 1.5 LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST AND RELATED WORK (INCLUDING EVALUATIONS) ............................................................................................................................. 36 1.6 LINKS TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS, STRATEGIES, PLANS, POLICY AND LEGISLATION, GEF/LDCF AND FAO STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES ................................ 38 SECTION 2 – PROJECT FRAMEWORK AND EXPECTED RESULTS ....................................... 42 2.1 PROJECT STRATEGY ........................................................................................................ 42 2.1.1 The agro-ecological FFS Approach .................................................................................. 42 2.1.2 Project Intervention Area and the Project Sites ................................................................ 44 2.2 PROJECT OBJECTIVE ......................................................................................................
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