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Case Study: Tomato Tackling Climate Change Workshop Case Study Group Presentation 22/6/18 By: Ram, Hudaa, Shemida, Julia, Gerard, Appadou

1/15/2019 Open-field tomato What is cultivation in the North our system of interest? of Island of Mauritius

1/15/2019 To maintain tomato production during What is our development rainfall season and goal? drought period

1/15/2019 Assessing the risk and defining the need for action  (i) Heavy rainfall What are the climate hazards  (ii) Flooding to which tomato cultivation in the  (iii) Drought North is exposed  (iv) High summer temperature to?

1/15/2019  Biophysical damage:  Leaching of nutrients to aquifers and water bodies  Eutrophication of water What are the bodies  Harmful algal high risk impacts blooms on tomato cultivation in the  Heavy crop damage North?  Impairment of tomato quality  Socio-economic damage  Severe yield decrease  Loss of farmers’ income

1/15/2019 Productivity Can climate- smart agriculture approaches be adopted for the Mitigation Adaptation tomato crop?

Policy Technical What are our Climate adaptation adaptation options options? Capacity building Research

All possible adaptation options! Policy Scheme for farmers to Scheme/incentives to adopt sheltered implement efficient farming drainage system in- field Technical Adoption of heat- Provision of an agro- SMS (Short messaging tolerant variety of meteorological mobile Service) Alert tomato by growers application for farmers Capacity- Training on sheltered Training on roof-top Training on tomato farming including and surface rain-water processing building sheltered structures, harvesting cultivation practices, Empowering women for irrigation and value-addition of tomato fertigation Research Genetic engineering Research and to develop drought- development on smart and heat-tolerant cooling system tomato varieties

1/15/2019 What are the best adaptation options for tomato cultivation in the North?

Effectiveness Cost Feasibility Regret/No Overall Mitigation Short-listed regret evaluation potential adaptation (+/0/-) options Scheme for 5 2 3 5 15/20 0 farmers to adopt sheltered farming Scheme/ 4 3 3 5 15/20 0 incentives to implement drainage efficient system in fields Adoption of 4 4 5 5 18/20 0 drought & heat- tolerant varieties SMS (Short 4 4 5 5 18/20 0 messaging service) Alert

Best Effectiveness Cost Feasibility Regret/No Overall Mitigation adaptation regret evaluation potential options (+/0/-) Training on 4 4 5 5 18/20 0 sheltered farming including cultivation practices, irrigation and fertigation Training on 4 4 5 5 18/20 0 rain-water harvesting Training on 4 4 5 5 18/20 0 tomato processing Empowering 4 4 5 5 18/20 0 women for value-addition of tomato

 Climate change effects on our crop cultivation are unavoidable and already palpable!  Tomatoes feature among the four main foodcrops in Mauritius in terms of volume of supply on the local market. So,  Tomato cultivation is negatively affected by the why should following climatic variables: (i) precipitation and (ii) temperature GCF fund this  The main climatic hazards for tomato project? cultivation in the North are (i) heavy rainfall, (ii) flooding, (iii) drought and (iv) high temperature

 In order to climate-proof tomato cultivation and maintain the same level of productivity under adverse climatic conditions, we need to invest in a multi-pronged adaptive approach So why  This four-pronged approach involves investing in technical measures and research, putting in should GCF place an enabling policy for tomato growers fund this and building in capacity in all actors involved in the tomato value chain. project?