1) The document discusses the impacts of climate change on food security in Africa, finding that the number of undernourished people on the continent could increase between 25-95% by 2050 due to temperature increases of 1.2-2°C. 2) It highlights examples from Rwanda and Mozambique where landscape and ecosystem-based adaptation approaches improved conditions by restoring forests, soils and fisheries. 3) The conclusion calls for scaling up these isolated success stories across Africa through landscape-level policies in order to achieve long-term, sustainable food security on the continent.

1. Richard Munang, PhD
Africa Regional Climate Change Coordinator
Regional Office for Africa –
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

2. WFP/
Judith Schuler

3. UNHCR Mauritania

4. Major findings from the AFRICAN ADAPTATION
GAP REPORT

5. The need for an integrated approach:
Agriculture, Water, Food, Energy

6. Major findings from the WORLD BANK’S TURN
DOWN THE HEAT REPORT

7. 2 billion in Africa

9. Africa undernourished in 2050
25%
50%
85%
95%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Central Africa East Africa Southern Africa West Africa
Central Africa
East Africa
Southern Africa
West Africa
By 2050, even a change of about 1.2 to 2 degrees Celsius will have increased the
number of the continent’s undernourished by 25% to 95%

10. The Future of African Food Secuirty?
13%
87%
Food
No food
Experts have warned that
if the current situation
persists, Africa will be
fulfilling only 13% of its
food needs by 2050

11. Africa’s Potential
• The question is, given this scenario, is Africa’s
agricultural system ready to respond?
• Solutions that address climate change,
productivity, ecosystem services,
biodiversity, water and nutrients are urgently
needed and they do exist but in silos

12. MDGs to SDGs- cross cutting solutions
2015

13. Watershed
Management
Agroforestry
Riverbank
Stabilization
Fishery
Management
Landslide
prevention
Terracing
New reforestation
in degraded areas
Cultivation
of local
varieties
Landscape Level Interventions

14. Rwanda
Before
Intervention
After
Intervention
Application of Landscape Approach with
EBA Techniques
4850 people in
saving/credit
cooperatives
462 ha of
Terraces
789 ha
of forest
73 km of Water
Access
2844 ha
of pasture
96% forest loss Degraded
watershed
Soil nutrient
loss and lost
crop
productivity
High
population
density

15. Undiversified
food sources
Deforested
mangroves
Soil erosion
Unsustainable
fishing practices
Flooding
10 ha of
mangroves
planted
70 crab cages built
Ecosystem
rebound
Sustainable fishery
management
Rebounding fish
population
2 fish farming
ponds created
Mozambique Application of Landscape Approach
EBA at Seascape

16. A Paradigm Shift Needed
Food Insecurity
Ecosystem
Degradation
Food Security
Ecosystem
Rehabilitation/
Preservation
Policies that do not
promote landscape
approaches
Landscape -based Policies
• Current food security policies continue to focus on the same three issues – agricultural
productivity, trade and macro-economic policies– all of which have an array of diverse
actors seeking often unsustainable and sometimes opposed goals while neglecting the
central role of ecosystem management.

17. Can Africa feed Africa?
Believe it!
 Communities across Africa are already building resilience to
climate change by stimulating their existing ecosystems.
 What is needed is to bring these isolated success stories to
scale, to make them the rule rather than the exception.
 This is the only way that Africa will be able to achieve the
envisaged food secured society, in which its population does
not experience the fear of want.

18. More information on Ecosystem-based
Adaptation methods for agriculture is available at
www.AAKNet.org
Thank You!