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Testing of tools for calculating GHG emissions from agriculture in the “Adaptation of Agricul-ture to Climate Change” project in Namibia
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Author
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Matthias Seebauer, Gilbert Wathum
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Editor or Organisation
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Unique
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Year
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2018
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Keywords
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emissions quantification, climate-smart practices, smallholder farms
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Country
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South Africa
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publication
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Language
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English
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
Background - State of the Art in Agricultural Emmission Quantification
Methodology
Results - Estimates of GHG Emissions and Mitigation Benefits
Conclusions
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Abstract
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This report presents the results of the testing of three tools for assessing GHG emissions and mitigation in the GIZ-supported project: “Adaptation of Agriculture to Climate Change in Northern Namibia”. The project supports the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry with the implementation of the ministry’s “Comprehensive Conservation Agriculture Programme 2015-2019” in three regions: Kavango West, Kavango East, and Zambezi (Figure 1). The goal of the 5-year project (February 2015 – September 2019) is to enable small-scale farmers in northern Namibia to successfully use climate-adapted farming methods.
More than half of Namibia’s estimated 2.1 million inhabitants1 live in the northern part of the country depending mostly on rain-fed agriculture, which is extremely vulnerable to the climate change impacts like increased rainfall variabilities, droughts and heat waves. In the country’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)2, climate change is projected to negatively impact on food security in many ways – such as lower crop yields and increased risks of crop failure, reduced livestock production, decline in fisheries production, reduced water availability, lower water quality, loss of soil fertility and increased soil erosion. Agriculture plays an important role in the country’s NDC in adapting to climate change and mitigating it. This project, there-fore, contributes to the country’s effort – particularly in adapting to climate change but also in mitigation. The project focuses on four areas of action: (1) farmer training in conservation agri-culture (CA), (2) advisory services, and the provision of seeds/seedlings and fertilisers; (3) poli-cy support for the government to mainstream climate change and CA in its strategies and poli-cies; (4) knowledge management through documenting an evidence base for CA and its cli-mate adaptation and mitigation benefits. The project has conducted farmer trainings and stakeholder workshops; set up CA research by implementation of demonstration fields both on research stations and on farms; and collected baseline and monitoring data. The project is promoting several practices such as residue retention/mulching; crop rotation/intercropping (grain-legume); inorganic/organic fertiliser use (farmyard manure/compost, green manure cover crops); reduced tillage in form of low-soil-disturbance ripping, direct seeding, and ba-sin/dibble stick planting.
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Yes
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