MainDBDraft: The Climate Resilient Livestock Production on Communal Lands project, South Africa
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The Climate Resilient Livestock Production on Communal Lands project, South Africa
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Africa
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Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners
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11/01/2021
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https://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/17622IIED.pdf https://www.iied.org/eba-evidence-policy-south-africa
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Conservation International
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National
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Adaptation planning and practices
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Ecosystem-based adaptation
Climate hazard:
Drought; Floods
Implementing partners:
Conservation South Africa
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Civil society
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Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa
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Project activities built on local knowledge and adopted a range of participatory processes, which helped build adaptive capacity. Few social trade-offs were observed, but because of the slow nature of rangeland restoration, the associated gains in resilience took time to accrue. Similarly, whilst few trade-offs in terms of ecosystem service provision were observed, ecosystem-related benefits from rangeland restoration took several years to emerge. It may also be that semi-arid Succulent Karoo ecosystems have thresholds relating to overgrazing or climate change, which if crossed could lead to irreversible change. A number of policy and institutional barriers influenced the implementation of effective EbA initiatives at local, provincial and national levels, most notably the lack of local government authority to implement EbA, inadequate policy support at the provincial level, insufficient cross-sectoral collaboration at all levels, knowledge gaps, funding shortages, low capacity levels, weak institutional effectiveness and high levels of poverty. A number of policy and institutional opportunities also supported EbA implementation at local, provincial and national levels, most notably local government capacity, a supportive national and provincial legislative and policy environment, and opportunities for integrating EbA into expanded public works programmes. These programmes provide great potential for scaling up EbA implementation and moving away from stand-alone EbA projects with limited and locale-specific impacts. Mainstreaming is also occurring as EbA is incorporated into various national policymaking and planning processes in South Africa. Tools and guidance have been developed to support this process.
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Technical document/report
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Ecosystem-based adaptation involving rehabilitation of critical rangeland and wetland ecosystems in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa. The EbA rangeland and wetland rehabilitation initiatives described in this paper allowed communities to maintain or improve their adaptive capacity or resilience, and reduce their vulnerability, in the face of climate change. The initiatives were able to benefit vulnerable groups, especially those relying on pastoralism for their livelihoods. The EbA initiatives also restored, maintained or enhanced the capacity of ecosystems to continue to produce services for local communities, and allowed ecosystems to better withstand climate change impacts and other stressors. However, improvements in ecosystem service provision from rangeland restoration were much less apparent than from wetland restoration. EbA rangeland restoration was not financially viable from the perspective of landowners. EbA approaches (rangeland and wetland restoration) were also considerably more expensive than other adaptation options. Effectiveness evaluated using methodology described in Reid et al. 2018, Reid et al 2017 In short, this assesses effectiveness in three areas: Effectiveness for human societies, effectiveness for ecosystem and financial and economic effectiveness: Is EbA cost effective and economically viable over the long term? It also looks at what social, institutional and political issues influence the implementation of effective EbA initiatives and how might challenges best be overcome.
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Numerous social co-benefits emerged from the EbA initiatives, and few costs. Despite the lack of financial viability for the landowner, EbA options provide many broader economic benefits such as job creation, providing a strong economic case for wider application using government funding channeled through South Africa’s expanded public works programmes.
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Case study
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