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chapter 1: overview: a methodological framework - integrating climate adaptation and sustainability into agricultural sectors
and vulnerable stakeholders, including small-scale farmers, women and young groups).
6. Stage 3: Adaptation strategy implementation
This stage involves investment strategy and economic incentives. These will encourage the uptake of adaptation best practices, institutional reforms, and a transition to governance structures that are necessary to achieve climate adaptation and sustainability.
7. Application to three agricultural systems: Kenya, Morocco, and Ecuador
The conceptual framework described in this section was applied in three countries under three FAO pilot projects relating to the (a) banana value chain in Ecuador; (ii) tea sector in Kenya; and (iii) fruit tree crops in Morocco (Figure 5). Each pilot project included a full-scale climate adaptation assessment, followed by a participatory policy process that involved sectoral and national government stakeholders.
7.1 Kenya’s tea sector: Developing an evidence-based climate-smart strategy
FAO’s intervention in Kenya included an impact assessment of the tea sector
with respect to climate change. Tea is the country’s principal agricultural
industry, employing over 2 million people. A two-stage approach was applied, spearheaded by a multidisciplinary impact assessment and followed by a multistakeholder and inclusive process, through which a new climate-smart strategy for tea was developed for Kenya. The multidisciplinary framework included a biophysical study of the link between climate and tea yields, a life- cycle analysis of tea, and a crop modeling of tea management under various climate scenarios (Aquacrop model). The economic analysis of the tea value chain in Kenya included a market analysis; sources of productivity and comparative advantages; a cost structure; the continued supply of improved varieties; and techniques that have increased production and ensured that Kenya is the world’s leading tea producing country.
Once the cumulative evidence was obtained from the studies, a multistakeholder process was initiated to develop a climate-compatible strategy for Kenya’s tea sector. A national dissemination workshop, attended by representatives of government agencies, private industry and civil society, was organized where the study findings were shared and discussed. This
was followed by a Technical Committee meeting, facilitated by FAO and representing relevant stakeholders to discuss the role of collectively developing a new climate-adaption tea strategy for Kenya. The Committee included representatives from Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture (Climate Change Unit), Ministry of Environment (Climate Change Secretariat), National Environment
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