Nigeria - Abatement of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) in the Nigerian Agricultural Sector by Reducing Open Field Burning (No Burn Alternatives)

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Rationale

This project responds to a request by the Federal Ministry of Environment (FME) and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) to support the promotion of efficient management and alternative utilisation of farm wastes to reduce/prevent burning of farm residues, replacing such practices with clean air alternatives based on low-tech mechanical conversion and further use/processing of cleared biomass.

CCAC has worked with Nigeria to conduct satellite-derived analytics to determine locations where no-burn and climate smart agricultural interventions can be applied in Nigeria; this work produced open burning mapping that the proposed project can build on. 

Objectives

This project aims to: 

  • Increase the knowledge of governments and farmers on the implementation of no burn alternative practices. 
  • Increase the capacity of  government extension services on climate smart agriculture practices.
  • Have farmers uptake farming practices that reduce open burning.

What we're doing

 

To achieve these objectives the project will:

  • Conduct advocacy engagement and outreach activities with farmer groups, farmer organisations, key agriculture sector opinion leaders and groups in selected geopolitical zones with high incidence of open burning prevalence. 
  • Hold trainings and demonstrations of no-burn/alternative practices to pilot farmer groups in selected geopolitical zones, with the aim of increasing adoption of these practices capacity building to extension services staff in federal and state ministries for continued, sustainable diffusion of the training outcomes leading to the sustainability of the project.  

The project will target as a core beneficiary group 500 farmers, 35 agricultural extension officers, and a larger number of other farmers in local communities. 

However, while the trainings, demonstrations, and capacity building activities will be focused in one state where open field burning is regularly observed these activities will serve to demonstrate successful approaches to reducing open field burning which will then be packaged and shared as with agricultural extension offices and other key influencers in other LGAs and States through workshops and documented toolkits. In this way lessons from the project can be scaled across Nigeria. 

 

Project reference: Nigeria - Abatement of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) in the Nigerian Agricultural Sector by Reducing Open Field Burning (No Burn Alternatives) [NG-22-003]

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