Presentation hold by Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division at FAO, as part of the first panel of the 30th edition of the Brussels Briefing on “Agricultural resilience in the face of crisis and shocks", organized by CTA in collaboration with the ACP Secretariat, the EC/DEVCO, Concord, and IFPRI on 4th March 2013. More on: http://brusselsbriefings.net/

1. Brussels Briefing n. 30
Agricultural Resilience in the Face of Crises and Shocks
4th March 2013
http://brusselsbriefings.net
Building resilience in countries in protracted crises
Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency
Operations and Rehabilitation Division, FAO

2. RESILIENCE IN
PROTRACTED CRISES
Brussels Development Briefings
4 March 2013
Dominique Burgeon
Director,
Emergency and Rehabilitation Division

3. Resilience in the new FAO strategic
framework
Global Goal:
Reduction of hunger Elimination of poverty through Sustainable management of
and malnutrition economics and social progress natural resources
SO1 SO2 SO3 SO4 SO5
Increase and improve Reduce rural poverty Enable more inclusive Increase the
Eradicate
provision of goods and efficient food and resilience of
hunger, food
and services from agricultural systems at livelihoods to threats
insecurity and
agriculture, forestry local, national and and crises
malnutrition
and fisheries in a international levels
sustainable manner
Resilience in terms of Resilience in terms
Resilience as an Resilience in terms Resilience
sustainable production of social poverty
institutional condition of market and food
for reducing hunger
and agroecosystem dimension
chain dimension
to shocks
stresses
Resilience to stresses

4. Resilience to shocks
The ability to prevent disasters and
crises or to anticipate, absorb,
accommodate or recover and adapt from
shocks impacting nutrition, agriculture, food
security and safety and specific related
public health risks in a timely, efficient
and sustainable manner.
• Ability to withstand threats
• Ability to adapt to new pathways in
times of crises

5. Beyond the Hyogo Framework for Action-
HFA :5 types of crisis
• Natural disasters
• Extreme weather events
• Geo-hazards
(e.g., earthquakes, landslides, et
c.)
• Food chain emergencies/
transboundary threats
• Socio-economic crises (e.g. high
food prices)
• Violent conflicts
• Protracted crises

6. Resilience - Four thematic pillars
1/ GOVERN RISKS AND CRISIS:
Institutional strengthening and risk and crisis
management governance for agriculture, food
and nutrition
4/ PREPARE & RESPOND TO
CRISIS: Increase 2/ WATCH TO SAFEGUARD:
Preparedness and response to crisis resilience of Information and early warning systems for
livelihoods
affecting agriculture (including agriculture, food and nutrition and
to shocks
livestock, fisheries, aquaculture and transboundary threats
forestry), food and nutrition
3/ APPLY PREVENTION AND
MITIGATION MEASURES:
Protection, prevention, mitigation and building
livelihoods with technologies, approaches and
good practices for agriculture, food and nutrition

7. PILLAR 1
GOVERN RISKS Countries and regions have
legal, policy, institutional
AND CRISIS and regulatory frameworks
for disaster risk reduction
and crisis management for
agriculture, food and
nutrition
Examples:
•Promote adoption and
implementation of the Voluntary
Guidelines on the Responsible
Governance of Tenure of Land,
Fisheries and Forests
•Develop specific DRR Action
plan for Ministry of Agriculture

8. PILLAR 1 - GOVERN RISKS AND CRISIS
FAO multi-year resilience programmes for Sahel and
Horn of Africa regions
› Reflect the corporate agenda on resilient livelihoods to support
regional and countries priorities
• Bringing a common resilience
overarching goal for all actors
• Building on the diversity of assets and
approaches and grounded on cross
sectorial synergies
• Encouraging multi-year funding and
programming allowing flexibility and
adaptation
• Fostering coherence between
immediate and medium to long term
interventions

9. Countries and regions
PILLAR 2 deliver regular information
WATCH TO and trigger timely actions
against potential, known
SAFEGUARD and emerging threats to
agriculture, food and
nutrition
Examples:
•EMPRES (Locust and animal
disease) surveillance,
information sharing and Early
Warning systems
•Integrated Phase Classification
(IPC)
•GIEWS : Global Information and
Early Warning System on food
prices

10. PILLAR 2 - WATCH TO SAFEGUARD
Transboundary plant pests, disease and animal diseases-
African Great Lakes region
• Cassava Mosaic Disease
• Pest of small ruminants
 Impact on Food and
Nutrition Security
ACTION:
1. Surveillance and control
2. Capacity development and
support to veterinary services
3. Coordination support to local
authorities

11. Countries apply prevention
PILLAR 3 and impact mitigation
measures that reduce risks
APPLY PREVENTION for agriculture, food and
nutrition
& MITIGATION
MEASURES Examples:
AGROFORESTRY: Trees can be used as
shelterbelts and windbreaks. They can
stabilize riverbanks, mitigate soil
erosion, protect against landslides and
floods.
RAINWATER HARVESTING: Technologies
& practices that use less water, reduce
water loss, and increase overall water
productivity during droughts.
CONFLICT SENSITIVE MEASURES:
Tenure, access to natural resources
(water, land, trees, pasture, transhuma
nce routes, …)

12. PILLAR 3 – APPLY PREVENTION AND MITIGATION MEASURES
Seed fairs in South Sudan
Transform agriculture in South Sudan in 2012:
boosting the number of seed fairs organized before
the rainy season.
RESULTS:
• Making available diverse quality and certified
seeds of maize, groundnuts, beans and sorghum
in local markets in a timely manner
• Support food production and diversify small
holders livelihoods
 Essential disaster risk reduction measure for
increasing the resilience of smallholders

13. PILLAR 4
PREPARE AND Countries and regions
affected by disasters and
RESPOND crises with impact on
agriculture, food and
nutrition are prepared for
and manage effective
responses
Examples:
•Seed reserves
•Forest fire management training
•Fisheries emergency guidance &
good practices
•Livestock shelters and fodder
reserves

14. PILLAR 4 - PREPARE AND RESPOND
Somalia famine 2011
Cash transfer programme
1. cash for work
2. provision of vouchers
3. distribution of inputs
RESULTS:
• Avoid migration
• Avoid starvation
• Reduced malnutrition
• Built productive assets (irrigation, feeder
roads, storage facilities)

15. The resilience opportunity: strategic partnerships
The FAO-UNICEF-WFP Strategy for Somalia,
three building blocks
“ The concerted actions that will help at-risk Somali society cope with
crises on the basis of community initiatives”
1. 2. 3.
PRODUCTIVE BASIC SOCIAL MINIMUM SOCIAL
SECTORS SERVICES PROTECTION
(income) (human capital) (basic needs)
• Diversification of • Community information • Sustained/Predictable
livelihood strategies; and knowledge systems; transfers for long-term
destitute or the
• Intensification of • Household and seasonally at risk
production; community care
practices; • Necessary for the most
• Access to Markets and vulnerable to access the
Market Information. • Skills development & two other building blocks
community-based social
service delivery

16. The way forward - the resilience opportunity:
Incredible momentum for an overarching
shared, common resilience agenda =
• Putting/linking agriculture, food and nutrition at the forefront
and root causes of hunger
• Multi-hazards and risks joined approaches
• Multi-sector livelihoods centered
• Multi-stakeholders efforts and partnerships
• Multi-year timeframe combining short &longer term diverse
actions
(humanitarian, development, investment, research, policy
work, …)
• Multi-level coherence (local – national – regional – global)

17. RESILIENCE IN PROTRACTED CRISES
Brussels Development Briefings
4 March 2013
Thank you
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