Climate Change Adaptation Seminar – the case of coffee in Uganda
Wednesday, 14th March, 2011
Time: 14:00 – 17:30
Venue: Senate Building, Senate Upper Conference Room, 4th Floor, Makerere University.
Organised by: Makerere University & Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation
Programme
13:30 Registration
14:00 – 14:15 Welcome and introduction
Vice principal of the school of Agriculture & Environment,
Dr. Frank Kansiime
14:15 – 14:30 Introducing the case
Laurence Jassogne
Consultant
14:30 – 14:40 Research’s role
Africano Kangire
Coffee Research Centre (COREC)
14:40 – 14:50 And what does the private sector do?
Deus Nuwagaba
NuCafe
14:50 – 15:00 How can coffee farmers respond?
Anthony Wolimbwa
CAN-U/Oxfam
15:00 – 15:15 Reflections
MoA – Directorate of crop production
15:15 – 16:30 Questions, discussion, debate.
16:30 – 17:30 NGO Market & drinks
Background
Coffee and banana production in Uganda will be affected by climate change. While rainfall quantity might not drastically alter, its distribution is expected to become more erratic. Furthermore, the average temperature is expected to increase by 2°C in the next few decades. This will affect coffee producing areas, most notably the Arabica growing regions, in addition an increase in pest and disease incidence is expected. Climate change is strongly connected to development issues. Economies, like Uganda, that depend heavily on natural resource based production systems such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries will feel the effects most profoundly. Smart development moves are needed beyond the traditional isolated approaches to achieve adaptation, mitigation, and development
Objectives:
In this seminar we will be exploring the facts, but above all the strategy of the various stakeholders in response to these facts.
What will be the adaptation strategy? How are responsibilities divided? And do the farmers actually have a say.
The seminar will start with a series of short introductions after which all are invited to contribute to the debate. This seminar is a follow-up of a one-day workshop which was held in November 2012.
(see also: http://portals.wi.wur.nl/climatechange/?Welcome)
This topic is the focus of the seminar which is organised as part of the international course”Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management”. The course is organised by Makerere University in partnership with Wageningen University & Research Centre, the Netherlands.
More information contact: Dr. Florence Kyazze () or Dr. Irene Koomen ()