NAP-Ag Programme
So after a long period of negotiation, Charles Spillane, Peter McKeown and Una Murray have helped me achieve a placement at the FAO in Rome. I am working at the the “Integrating Agriculture into the National Adaptation Plan Programme “ in the Climate Change Division.
A National Adaptation Plan (NAP) is a short to medium term plan on adapting a certain industry to climate change. The NAP-Ag programme seeks to get countries to consider doing a NAP for their agriculture sector. This is important as agriculture is the most sensitive sector to climate change while also being a large contributor of GHG emissions.
A NAP is important not only for a holistic approach to guide a adapting a sector, but also important for attaining climate funding. The Green Climate Fund wants a NAP as a roadmap for implementation.
The NAP-Ag programme is a joint effort between the FAO and UNDP seeks to aid countries in creating their NAP-Ag. The aims are,
- developing an integrated adaptation approach and roadmap
- supporting key stakeholders in the process, in particular Ministries of Agriculture
- defining a baseline on adaptation and identifying climate change knowledge gaps in the agriculture sector
- developing and conducting capacity training
- identifying climate finance for adaptation
The 8 partner countries are Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Uganda, Uruguay, Vietnam and Zambia.
For More Information on the Programme see this brief.