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Climate Change and Urban Food Security Challenges for Dhaka Monirul Mirza Adaptation & Impacts Research Section (AIRS), Environment Canada Bonn, May 13, 2012 The Three Questions What are the approaches to ensure UPAs greater

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Climate Change and Urban Food Security Challenges for Dhaka

Monirul Mirza Adaptation & Impacts Research Section (AIRS), Environment Canada Bonn, May 13, 2012

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The Three Questions

  • What are the approaches to ensure UPA’s greater

visibility in policy & planning for resilient cities?

  • What are the responses for adapting urban

agriculture and food systems to future climate change?

  • What are the key enabling factors for promoting

innovation in urban agriculture?

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The Study Area for the UPA

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UPA: Importance to Dhaka

  • Uncertainty in food supply from rural areas
  • UPA can contribute to food security, poverty

alleviation and public health

  • UA can positively contribute to environmental

management

Photos: Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute

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Future Climate Change in Bangladesh

Source: World Bank, 2010

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Climate Change: Risks for Agriculture

  • Production losses from increased floods, droughts,

fogs & heat stress

  • 3.1% annual agriculture GDP loss until 2050
  • Loss of employment
  • Food security problem especially in urban centers
  • Pressure on other key economic sectors

Photos: Practical Action

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Adaptation Options & Policies

  • Learning from the past
  • Identifying barriers and obstacles
  • Mainstreaming of Adaptation
  • Outlining future options
  • Economics of adaptation
  • Innovations & Capacity building
  • Dissemination, implementation

& evaluation

Photos: Practical Action, BRRI & IRRI

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Enabling Environment/Factors for UPA Innovation

  • Knowledge & capacity needs assessment
  • Investments in innovation policy & associated

governance structure

  • Investments in regulatory frameworks that affect

agricultural innovation

  • Investments in urban/peri-urban credit, agri-

infrastructure, markets, etc.

  • Environmental sustainability & poverty reduction
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Policy & Action Responses

  • UPA with special focus in the national agriculture policy
  • Policy to integrate UPA with other sectoral policies, e.g.

land, water, etc.

  • Administrative & regulatory policy changes to promote

UPA

  • Promoting UPA as an integral component of resilient city

concept

  • Special investment policy for innovations focusing on the

UPA