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FAO/GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY PROJECT DOCUMENT PROJECT TITLE: Mainstreaming ecosystem-based approaches to climate-resilient rural livelihoods in vulnerable rural areas through the Farmer Field School methodology PROJECT SYMBOL: GCP/SEN/065/LDF Recipient country/ies: Senegal Resource Partner: LDCF FAO project ID: 5503 GEF/LDCF Project ID: 625461 Executing Partner(s): Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MAER) Expected EOD (starting date): 10/01/2015 Expected NTE (End date): 10/01/2020 Contribution to FAO’s a. Strategic objective/Organizational Result: SO2: OO1, OO2 ; SO3: Strategic Framework OO1 b. Regional Result/Priority Area: Reduction of vulnerability to threats to food security and nutrition; improved management and governance for sustainable use of natural resources c. Country Programming Framework Outcome: Country Programming Framework Outcome: CPF- 1 (Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable populations), and CPF-2 (growth, diversification and development of agro-forestry-pastoral production) GEF Focal Area/LDCF/SCCF: Climate Change Adaptation GEF/LDCF/SCCF Strategic Objectives: CCA-1: Reduce vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change, including variability, at local, national, regional and global level CCA-2: Increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability, at local, national, regional and global level CCA-3: Promote transfer and adoption of adaptation technology Environmental and Social Risk Classification: Low √ Moderate High Financing Plan: LDCF allocation: USD 6,228,995 USD 3,321,254 (PAFA-E) Co-financing: USD 9,769,939 (PASALouMaKaf) USD 4,022,146 (PADAER) USD 3,068,656 (ANGMV) USD 4,225,390 (PAPIL) USD 200,000 (FAO) Subtotal Co-financing: USD 24,607,385 USD 30,836,380 Total Budget: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Senegal's agricultural, pastoral and forest sectors are likely to be affected by climate change with regard to both food crop and forage crop yields. Despite the fact that climatic variability has been considered in rural development policies, programs and field activities, farmers and agropastoralists are now subject to increased risks and will have to adapt their agricultural and pastoral systems to a hotter and likely drier future and react to the risk of decreasing yields and degradation of the natural resource bases (soils, biodiversity). Main barriers to effectively addressing CC challenges identified within this context are: a) insufficient information and awareness of climate change adaptation (CCA) methodology, best practice and strategy among institutions, producers and consumers; b) lack of attention to traditional knowledge and local practices related to coping with CC; c) the need to build capacity in adopting drought-resilient agropastoral and agroforestry practices to counter the adverse effects of climate variability; d) weakness of policies and programmes aimed at confronting CC in key sectors such as agriculture, pastoral and food security and promoting multi-sectoral policies and programmes; e) the need for technology and methods to tackle the impact of climate change on crops and animal breeding as relevant to food security; f) the need to strengthen institutional capacity and disseminate information and knowledge on CCA lessons learned. The proposed LDCF project is a joint effort by the Ministry of Agriculture, other national partners, the FAO and the GEF to fill the above-mentioned gaps and reduce CC-induced threats by introducing CCA dimensions into the farmer field school and agro-pastoral field school (FFS/APFS) approach. The project will partially be blended with and co-financed by four major projects/programmes implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and its partners, and financed by IFAD, ADB and IDB. The project area will cover seventeen municipalities in six regions of three agro-ecological zones (i) the Peanut Basin covering the Central and Northern regions of Kaolack , Fatick, Diourbel and Kaffrine ; ( ii) the agro- pastoral zone covering the region of Louga; and (iii) the Eastern zone of Senegal area covering Tambacounda Region. With the additional financing from the LDCF, the proposed intervention will expand the scope of the activities carried out in the country related to increased resilience of the agricultural and pastoral sectors to climatic changes and contribute to reducing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers and herders. The project’s Adaptation Objective is to enhance the capacity of Senegal's agro-sylvo-pastoral sectors to cope with climate change, by mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) practices and strategies into on-going national agro-sylvo-pastoral development policies and programmes. The project’s Development Objective is to help stakeholders adopt a field-based, pragmatic community learning process that leads to an increased understanding, adaptation and eventual wide-scale adoption of improved agro-sylvo-pastoral practices, which in turn creates a trend towards increasing production, improving livelihoods and enhancing food and nutrition security. The project consist of the following components: Component 1: Developing/fine-tuning CCA strategies and tools based on improved knowledge and information management and piloting improved CCA practices in agricultural and pastoral production systems, aims to improve knowledge and information management and pilot CCA experiences to serve as baseline to inform Components 2 and 3. Component 2: Capacity building and up-scaling of CCA strategies, technologies and best practices for 2 small farmers and agro-pastoralists through a growing network of FFS/APFS, is focused on capacity building and up-scaling of CCA strategies, technologies and best practices for small-scale farmers and agro-pastoralists through FFS/APFS, based on the knowledge and information systematized in Component 1. Furthermore, Component 2 will improve crops and livestock production value chains, thus enhancing income generation, by introducing specific CCA curricula in FFS/APFS and capacity building of national program managers, farmers and agro-pastoralists. Component 3: Mainstreaming CCA strategies in a coordinated manner in agricultural and animal production development frameworks at country level and in selected vulnerable areas, aims at integrating CCA strategies in agricultural and animal production development frameworks at country level, which will improve the regulatory frameworks for achieving results and outputs of Component 2, drawing on information and knowledge systematized and disseminated in Component 1. Component 4: M&E and information dissemination. This includes activities to ensure a systematic results-based monitoring and evaluation of project’s progress and to promote the wider dissemination of project information, data and lessons learned for replication in other areas. The expected impacts and adaptation benefits of the project are the following: (i) Agro-climatic information, innovation and CC adaptation practices are adopted by agro-sylvo-pastoral producers building on better knowledge of CC-induced threats on all sectors in the three targeted agro-climatic areas; (ii) Household income, agricultural and livestock productivity of FFS/APFS farmers have increased thanks to the application of CCA practices, and the use of agro - meteorological information, and have improved the value chains of agricultural and livestock products (750 FFS and 500 APFS are implemented targeting 15000 producers et 10000 herders trained and empowered on CCA practices); (iii) Fine-tuned and piloted agro-ecosystems specific strategies for increasing CC resilience are scaled up, including optimal use of dry land crop genetic resources and rangeland species in three agro- ecological zones (at least 4 CCA practices are identified and adopted by producers; at least 25% of farmer organizations participating to field schools are able to use the broadcasted climatic information; 15000 farmers and 10000 herders, of which 40% are represented by women and youth, are directly targeted by the project and at least 10 Action Plans developed by farmers organizations include CCA strategies); (iv) FFS and APFS farmers and herders integrate their traditional production with improved and adapted systems including also a landscape approach, and other activities that generate income (apiculture, aviculture, small ruminant, horticulture, etc.) increasing their household revenue by 20% and their capital accrual by 25%; (v) National institutional capacities to develop and integrate CCA policies, strategies and supporting programs to FFS/APFS are increased allowing a shift from a reactive response to a pro-active preparedness approach (30% of operational projects in sector-level programs incorporate budget for CCA components); (vi) a national framework CC resilient fund integrating together the different existing local CC and resilience funds is implemented and used by key actors mobilizing twice the initial GEF/LDCF contribution by end of year 4. 3 Table of Contents GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS ....................................................................................................................................... 7 SECTION 1‐ RELEVANCE AND BACKGROUND .......................................................................................................... 13 1.1 AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND ........................................................................... 13 1.2 CLIMATE CHANGE AND VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE .....................................................................................