Synthesis Report Three Horizon Farmer Session at UFCCC Africa Climate Week

The report details a workshop using the 3 Horizon approach with farmers from East and West Africa to identify future visions, promising initiatives, and challenges to resilience. Key findings emphasize the need for farmer self-organization, improved seed ownership, better infrastructure to bypass middlemen, and user-friendly climate and market information. The report notes a divergence in approaches: East African participants focused on increasing productivity through researcher-led inputs, while West African participants emphasized agro-ecological solutions and influencing consumer markets.

• The workshop identified several priority areas to support resilient development, including enhancing farmers' ability to self-organize and act collectively, increasing the independence of women and youth, and improving the societal status and infrastructure investment for farmers.
• There is a critical need to improve farmers' access to information regarding climate, crops, and market prices, provided in user-friendly formats to overcome language and literacy barriers.
• Infrastructure deficits and a reliance on multiple middlemen in the value chain disadvantage farmers by reducing the final price they receive for their products.
• Farmers in East Africa showed a strong reliance on external researchers and purchased hybrid seeds, facing challenges related to the management of these inputs and a lack of community seed banks.
• Farmers in West Africa prioritized agro-ecological approaches, such as composting and intercropping, and sought to influence consumer markets and understand uncertain weather patterns.
• Resilient landscapes are a frequently desired future vision, but there is a gap in the implementation of solutions, as farmers often perceive landscape resilience as being outside their immediate scope of influence compared to food security.
• Youth migration to cities is driven by high population pressure on land, a perception of farming as a 'dirty' or low-status job, and the discouraging effects of climate change on yields.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2019). Synthesis Report Three Horizon Farmer Session at UFCCC Africa Climate Week. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/synthesis-report-three-horizon-farmer-session-at-ufccc-africa-climate-week-final.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. Synthesis Report Three Horizon Farmer Session at UFCCC Africa Climate Week. 2019. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/synthesis-report-three-horizon-farmer-session-at-ufccc-africa-climate-week-final.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2019synthesis, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{Synthesis Report Three Horizon Farmer Session at UFCCC Africa Climate Week}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2019}, month = mar, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/synthesis-report-three-horizon-farmer-session-at-ufccc-africa-climate-week-final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }