management in the Kagera Basin Lake Victoria Basin - LVEMP- 2 - - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Upstream of Nile –NBI-NELSAP

• Kagera basin - Burundi, Rwanda,

Tanzania and Uganda 59,800km2 and 19M people

• Lake Victoria Basin - LVEMP-

2- Environmental Management program and Basin Commission

Transboundary Agro-ecosystem management in the Kagera Basin

Pressures on land resources in the Kagera basin

Bush burning

State: Degradation (soil erosion & fertility loss, less water quality & flow, loss of vegetation cover, biodiversity & ecosystem functions) Impacts: poverty, food insecurity, conflict over resources, youth out-migration (labour shortage)

Kagera Basin Challenges

To treat these symptoms we need to address the cause ses Direct Pressures: reduced farm size, fragmented, poor land use/

management practices, differential access (herds; land)  conflict

Drivers: population growth, market driven crop/ livestock intensification

(urban demand), low knowledge base, lack of support (policy, incentives)

Theory of change from a degradation scenario to adoption and buy in of integrated SLaM

approach

• to restore degraded lands and

improve productivity

• to sequester carbon and adapt to

climate change

• to conserve agro-biodiversity and

ensure its sustainable use

• to improve food security and rural

livelihoods

• and thereby, contribute to the

protection of international waters

• 1. Support for SLM adoption for range of land uses and land user types (FFS

grants, facilitation/extension, technical support teams, investment)

• 2. Capacity developed at all levels: farmers, technicians, decision makers.
• 3. Participatory Land Planning: farm-catchment-community bye laws, district
• 4. Transboundary Cooperation & harmonisation

DRIVING FORCES (indirect causes)

Diagnostics using DPSIR Framework

PRESSURES (direct causes) STATE OF THE LAND (processes) IMPACTS (on ecosystem services) IMPACTS (on livelihood assets) RESPONSES Vegetation, soil, water

Drivers Pressures Status and trends Impacts Responses

Build understanding

• f the interactions

for each land use type and for each land user group

Z A

Soil erosion / soil properties Vegetation Water resources

Transect

LADA local assessment- Characterize

the area/catchment, status and trends of vegetation, soil, water Compare good and poor land use and management practices  Responses & their Impacts on ES

Key Informant & land user typology and HH livelihoods assessment

Interviews with sample households in catchment Score each asset for interviewed households

• Natural assets- land area, land quality, trees, …
• Physical assets- access to transport, market …
• Human assets- education level, knowledge
• Social assets- water users organisation, FFS …
• Financial assets- capital, access to credit/bank

Draw asset pentagons to compare the assets (& capacities) of the different land user profiles and trends Better off Average Poor

Field visits to select best practices (Tanzania)

Visits with locals and extension and FFS study plots to select and adapt existing crop, grazing, tree, forest and livestock management practices

Identify, Assess and Document SLM Technologies and Approaches using WOCAT

Well made ridges on a radical terrace planted with Round potato for Umurava FFS group field FFS group agroforestry tree nursery, Kamonyi district FFS group dynamics Ballet box to assess knowledge change

FFS Learning & Experimentation Range of SLAM interventions

• Bring together FFS approach, catchment

planning & management and bye laws/ local governance

• Identify, assess and document best practices

using WOCAT tools (QA, QT),

• Share best practices through WOCAT database

and pilot QW and QC

• Asses and raise awareness understanding on

multiple benefits of SLM:

• Productivity,
• CC A&M, short and long term resilience
• Agro-biodiversity (diverse genetic resources,

species and habitats- pollination, pest control etc)

• Food security and nutrition
• Sustaining ecosystem services (C, nutrients

water, flood & drought management)

http://www.fao.org/in-action/kagera/home/en/a www.fao.org/landandwater

Integrated landscape/production systems for multiple benefits and resilience