Climate Resilient Post-Harvest and Climate Resilient Post-Harvest and

Agribusiness Support Project (PASP)Agribusiness Support Project (PASP)

Presented by: Presented by: ZIGIRIZA LuciaZIGIRIZA LuciaPASP Operations Manager SPIU/MINAGRI PASP Operations Manager SPIU/MINAGRI

Maputo, November 2016Maputo, November 2016

Climate Change (CC) situation in Rwanda

TemperatureThe analysis of the annual average temperatures of Kigali Airport Station (1971-2007) and of Kamembe shows a clear increasing tendency in temperature. In Kigali Airport for instance an average value was 19.8°C in 1971 and 21.0°C in 2009. This reveals an increase of 1.2°C in 39 years. The increase of 1.2°C in 39 years is remarkable in as much as it exceeds global warming estimated at 0.8°C in 150 years.

RainfallAn analysis of the daily rainfall data from Kigali Airport station for the period 1971-2010 shows that annual average total number of rain days has reduced from 148 days in 1971 to 124 days in 2009. These data indicate not only reduction rainy season period, but also increasingly poor distribution and reliability of rainfallMore drought, landslides and flooding

EXISTING cc adaptation institutional framework

The Vision 2020

EDPRS: Green growth programme

National Strategy on Climate Change & Low Carbon Development (2011),Agriculture sector leads 2 programme : 1&2

PSTA III: with a programme on mainstreaming of environment and Planning to CC.

Objectives PASP overall project goal is to alleviate poverty, increase

rural income and contribute to the overall economic development of Rwanda;

PASP development objective is to increase smallholder and rural labourer incomes (including women, youth and vulnerable groups) from CIP crop and dairy businesses, especially those related to aggregating production for markets, supporting transformation, and creating value-added.

The project become effective since 28th March 2014 and it will be implemented over 5 years period.

The project target the development of the post-harvest (non-primary production) parts of six priority value chains: Maize, Beans, Potatoes, Cassava, Milk & horticulture

The initial target for PASP national beneficiaries will be 32,400 rural households in 12 selected Districts:

The project target the establishment of 200 Hubs across 12 Districts which will be associated with the 32,400 households

Target

Project financing & components

• PASP is complemented by a $7.000.000 Post-harvest Climate resilient Agribusiness grant (PHCRAB) which has been deployed in the Republic of Rwanda within the framework of supporting Adaption for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP).

No DonorAmount (USD) %

1

IFAD Loan & IFAD Grant 26,937,414 32.32

2 ASAP Grant 6,923,864 8.31

3

Other value actors/ beneficiaries 11,469,370 13.76

4

Hub Commercial Loans 34,618,599 41.53

5Government of Rwanda 3,401,193 4.08

  Total 83,350,440 100.00

Rainfall (shifts in amount of rain and

when the rainfall starts and ends ). Winds and storm

Flooding

Drought events (Prolonged dry season

and dry spell)

To (Current annual mean temperature and annual change ;variation in Temperature)

Frequency of continuous warm days (above 30 C). (Meteo Rwanda reports that the highest temperature recorded in Kigali for 1991-2000 it was 32.8 C; and for 2001-2010 it was 35.4 C.)

The process for smarting PASP project interventions :

6

LandslideFlooding

Water scaricity

Crop failure

Warehouse Project: Collection,drying, shelling, fumigation , weighting, sorting, grading, storage, packaging and Marketing),

PASP: Six main achievements through green fund

Establishment of partnership with different project implementationPublic institutionsNo

Name Collaboration framework

Role with regards to improving smallholder farmers resiliency

1 RAB MOU Conducting research related activities including those related to research on drought tolerant and early maturing varietiesTesting and approving climate smart post harvest technologies

2 RMA MOU Analysis of climate data and dissemination of climate information to smallholder farmers

3 CICA MOU facilitate farmers to get their feedback on climate information 4 BDF MOU Manages PASP grant &guarantee facilitiesPrivate organization1 Technical service

providersContract Providing a training and coaching to smallholder farmers and

other advisory services (maize, beans, Irish potato, cassava &dairy)2 Service providers

on BP development

Contract Providing different services related to BP development

3 Financial institutions

Contract with BDF

Provides loans to farmers & other private business promoters

Sharing Climate information to smallholder farmers Analysis of available historical agro-meteorological data to quantify changes

in seasonal characteristics and incidence of extreme events and how these impact upon harvest and post-harvest processes, and the rural infrastructure. Being done under MOU with RMA.

Preparation and dissemination of early warning messages appropriate to the risks identified in each PASP area (droughts, floods, cessation of rains etc.) developed through climate information services.

Training of farmers on climate information and sharing of seasonal forecast through community level workshops.

Cont. Identification and promotion of crop and forage varieties that mature earlier and are more

tolerant to floods and droughts through appropriate participatory field trials and field demonstrations : a number of trials and demo Plots have been established for maize, Irish potato, cassava and forages.

 

MINAGRI2015

Cont A climate smart warehouse constructed as

a demonstration, using an improved design:

Natural turbine ventilation

system, wall ventilation, solar

Energy, rain water harvesting

System, hermetic storage bags etc…..

2

MINAGRI2015

ChallengesNo Intervention Challenges1 Climate information

sharingThe major problem with climate information sharing is related to micro-climate linked with Country topography (main hills and mountains). It is difficult to produce a weather forecast at large scale of geographic coverage. 

2 Climate smart technologies

Limited availability of appropriate climate smart technologies

Research related activities

Research related activities that takes long due to research protocols required

Lets discuss!Thank You!Merci!Obrigado!Asente!Murakoze!Kanimambo!Re a leboga!

Lessons Learnt?