Mali

This Technology Transfer Advances Mali's

• Nationally Determined Contribution to give "Priority to develop a smart and resilient agriculture, including through the use of renewable energies".

Context

CTCN is assisting Mali to identify climate adaptation technologies with rural communities.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK November 4, 2016 – Press release

2016 CTCN Progress Report launched. Developing country trends in climate technology transfer needs presented.

In year 3 of its operations, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) reports that demand for technology transfer in support of achieving countries' national commitments is growing rapidly. 

Mali is committed to promoting a green economy with an emphasis on climate-smart agriculture and renewable energy. Yet current methods of crop conservation often lead to significant waste in the value chain, and weaken farmers' access to markets, reducing their revenues.

The Action Group for Modernisation of Agriculture (GAMA), in Southern Mali aims to improve farming stability in the face of increasing vulnerability of crop production due to climate change. A key piece of their strategy is to use renewable energy source for drying, processing and storage technologies for mangoes, potatoes and gombo. Used at sufficient scale, these technologies increase shelf life and availability of the product to the market, thereby increasing resilience to change and food security.

This publication outlines learning from the ‘Energy, Ecodevelopment and Resilience in Africa (EERA)’ in West Africa.

Benin, Mali and Togo all participated in EERA which offers lessons to other countries on approaches that can be taken toward a ‘Smart Energy Path’. This strategy aims to meet peoples’ energy needs in an environmentally sustainable, resilient way, and is guided by a participatory decision-making process.

The objective of the Fostering Agricultural Productivity Project for Mali is to increase the productivity of smallholder agricultural and agribusiness producers in the targeted production systems and project areas. There are three components to the project, the first component being technology transfer and service provision to agricultural producers. The component's objective is to foster the modernization of smallholder farming systems and supply chains through dissemination of improved technologies and practices, and through the professionalization of agricultural support services.

The purpose of this institutional analysis of the Agence de l’Environnement et du Institutional Analysis of l’Agence de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable (AEDD) and l’Agence Nationale de la Météorologie (Mali-Météo), carried out in close collaboration with USAID/Mali, is to identify the capacity and needs of these two institutions and to provide specific recommendations to strengthen these two agency’s responses to climate change. The ARCC Mali Institutional Assessment of the AEDD and Mali-Météo was structured around a field visit to Mali from January 11-24, 2014.

This is a USAID climate vulnerability mapping study of Mali, including climate scenario projections for future regional, and overall, climate vulnerability.

CTCN is assisting Mali in developing a tailored and ready-to-use Reference Guide of technologies that communities can use to best adapt their agricultural practises with regards to climate change effects. This is part of the technical assistance “Identification of climate adaptation technologies with rural communities”. The workshop, which main objective was to share the content of the Reference Guide, seek contributions for improvement and explore better ways to disseminate the Guide took place 24-25th March in Bamako.