The document outlines Kenya's experience developing legislation, policies, and strategies to support climate-smart agriculture. It discusses Kenya's constitution, Vision 2030, and national climate change response strategies which integrate environmental protection and adaptation/mitigation measures into agriculture. Programs promote weather-indexed crop insurance, water harvesting, conservation agriculture, and diversification. Challenges include separate planning processes and uncertain funding. Priority actions include strengthening collaboration across sectors, streamlining finance, improving measurement, and incorporating climate strategy into water policy.

1. REPUBLIC OF KENYA
Development and Implementation
of Legislation, Policies and
Strategies; Programmes and
Projects for Climate-Smart
Agriculture: Kenyan Experience
By Janet Oyuke,
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
State Department of Agriculture,
Nairobi Kenya
CCAFS Side Event at the COP 20 Lima, Peru- 1st -12th December, 2014
achiengoyuke@yahoo.com

2. Outline
1. CSA Concept
2. Legislation, Policies & Strategies
3. Programs and Projects
4. Institutional Orientation
5. Challenges in planning for CSA
6. Opportunities: Priority actions

3. 1. Climate – Smart Agriculture
(CSA): Concept
• The concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture has
emerged to describe agricultural systems that
provide not only improved agricultural
production for food security, but also climate
change adaptation and mitigation benefits, and
improved watershed and ecosystem
management (FAO 2010)

4. 2. LEGISLATION, POLICIES AND
STRATEGIES
• The Kenya Constitution, 2010- Explicit on,
– Minimum 10% tree cover
– Sustainable exploitation, utilization,
management of natural resources
• The Kenya Vision 2030 - Identifies integration
of environmental protection in agricultural
production as one of the strategic thrusts to
address the impacts of climate change

5. 2. LEGISLATION, POLICIES AND
STRATEGIES….
National Climate Change Response Strategy
(NCCRS), 2010
• Focuses on integration of adaptation and
mitigation measures in all government planning
and development objectives
• Prioritizes vulnerable sectors of the economy for
quick and immediate action and
• Provides explicit measures for addressing climate
change in Kenya and defined criteria to track
effectiveness of such measures

6. 2. LEGISLATION, POLICIES AND
STRATEGIES….
• The National Climate Change Action Plan
(2013-2017) has identified priority adaptation
and mitigation actions for transforming to a low
carbon climate resilient development pathway
for Agriculture.
• The Agricultural Sector Development
Strategy, 2010-2020 stipulates the
commitment of all Agriculture sector ministries
to:
– Implement Chapter 5 of the constitution
2010, and agricultural components of NCCRS/
NCCAP

7. 2. LEGISLATION, POLICIES AND
STRATEGIES….
• The National Agriculture Sector Extension
Policy stipulates that all extension service
providers will mainstream environment and
natural resource-related issues in extension
messages.
• The Climate Bill and the National Climate
Change Policy ( Both currently being
prepared)
- Milestone towards; enhanced adaptive capacity
, building resilience, promoting a low carbon
development pathway, legal and institutional
framework for CC mitigation and adaptation

8. 3. PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS
• Weather-indexed crop insurance schemes
• Water harvesting for food security and
• Water efficient irrigated agriculture
• Investment in Conservation Agriculture
• commodity-based adaptation including provision
of climate information to farmers
• Reliable storage structures for agricultural goods
• Diversification of livelihood sources to include
apiculture, sericulture, fish farming, drought
tolerant livestock breeds and high value
traditional crops.

9. 4. Institutional Orientation
• There is established the CC Secretariat –
MEW&NR to coordinate climate change activities
across sectors and
• CCU – MOALF; To act as a knowledge broker to
support the mainstreaming of climate change
into all of the Ministry’s projects and programs

10. 5. Challenges in Planning for
Climate-Smart Agriculture
• Separate planning processes for climate adaptation,
mitigation, and sustainable agriculture can complicate
policy and program implementation for climate-smart
agriculture
• Funds are uncertain and insufficient
• Institutional coordination and stability are
necessary for long-term planning and investment
– Kenya faces a parallel challenge of building climate
change institutions within a context of rapidly
developing and complicated international policy and
funding processes as well as a dynamic domestic
political environment, in which a new constitution is
substantially altering the structure of many core
government institutions.

11. 6.Opportunities: Priority Actions
To improve development and implementation
of national policies, strategies, programmes
and projects for climate-smart agriculture:
• Strong linkage between the Ministry of Agriculture,
Livestock and Fisheries and other stakeholders;
• Streamline finance mechanisms to support
climate-smart agriculture;
• Improve measurement systems that allow for
multi-objective programs; and
• Incorporate climate change strategy and national
water catchment policy.

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