MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Government

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Government Interventions on Climate Smart Agriculture Pres: Perspective on Agricultural Development Date 16 th- 17 th Sept. 2015 By Fikiri Katiko Department of Policy and Planning

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Outline • Introduction • Agricultural related Policies • Agriculture programs, strategies and plans • Climate change aspects • Lesson learnt and gaps • Conclusion

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Introduction • The agricultural sector is a key driver of social and economic development • generating about 24. 5 per cent of GDP in 2013 • employs about 74 percent of the population • contributes about 100 percent of national food requirements

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Introduction cont. . • FYDP and TAFSIP set annual sector growth rate target of 6 -10 percent; • Inadequate investment from both public and private sector attributing to low performance of the sector;

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Agricultural Policies • Cooperative Development Policy, 2002 • To implement the policy and Cooperative Societies Act, No. 20 of 2003, GOT launched a Comprehensive Reform and Modernisation Program. CRMP (2005 -2015)

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Agricultural Policies Cont. . . • National Irrigation Policy, 2010 • To implement the policy and National Irrigation Act, 2013, GOT launched National Irrigation Master Plan

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Agricultural Policies Cont. . . • The National Agriculture Policy, 2013 • National Agriculture Policy, 2013 recognizes the paramount importance of the private sector as the engine of growth

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Agricultural Development programs and Plans • Agriculture Sector Development Strategy(ASDS II) • Implemented through Agriculture Sector Development Program (ASDP II) • ASDS set strategies for Disaster Management, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Agricultural Development programs and Plans cont… • KILIMO KWANZA: • Resolve to ensure private sector takes a lead in green revolution in Tanzania. • SAGCOT: • Initiated at the World Economic Forum Africa Summit in Dar es Salaam Tanzania, 2010 as an inclusive multi-stakeholder partnership.

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Agricultural Development programs and Plans cont… • CAADP • Operationalised by TAFSIP and its was inaugurated on 11 November • Heavy involvement of Private Sector - Reflects the Government of Tanzania’s commitment to prioritizing agriculture

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Agricultural Development programs and Plans cont… • The Big Result Now Initiative for Agriculture (Brn- Agric. ) • Public and private sector is working together to modernize and commercialize agriculture with partnership models linking small scale producers; • Aim at increased agriculture GDP growth, smallholders’ income, food security and reduce poverty. • Agric Lab focus on commercial farming and smallholder aggregation.

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Government Agricultural Development Initiatives cont. . • The Big Result Now Initiative for Agriculture (Brn- Agric. ) • Priority crops are sugar cane, paddy and maize; • 25 commercial farms; 275 COWABAMA and 78 irrigation schemes are earmarked.

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Climate change aspects in Agriculture policies and plans • Agriculture policies, strategies, programmes and plans recognizes climate change as cross cutting issue: • Agricultural development strongly dependent on environmental resources such as land, forest, air and water. • Climate change is also an attribute of unsustainable farming methods and systems including deforestation, land clearing and/or bush fires.

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Climate change aspects in Agriculture policies Cont…. National Agricultural Policy, 2013 directed on MAFC collaborate with stakeholders to: • coordinate sustainable environmental early warning and monitoring systems • improve adaptation measures to climate change effects and deal with all the risks involved •

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Climate change in Agriculture Cont…. • create awareness on environmental conservation and environmental friendly crop husbandry practices • enforce environmental laws and regulations that minimize environmental degradation as of result of agricultural activities •

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Lesson learnt and gaps • unsustainable farming methods and systems • weak enforcement of laws and regulations. • Unmanaged risks with significant exposure to variability in climatic change causing periodic droughts and floods.

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES Lesson learnt and gaps cont… • Climate change being seen as cross cutting at the ministries • Inadequate awareness of decision makers on the need to mainstreaming climate change in agricultural policies, strategies, plans, budget and legislations • Inadequate emphasis of conducting of

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES CONCLUSION • Need for mainstream climate change issues in all related agricultural policies, plans and budget interventions • Climate Change policy, including undertaking carbon accounting studies of all key investments and identifying opportunities for adaptation and mitigation including strategies

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES The End Thank You!!