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February 21, 2025
Benin Validation Workshop For Preliminary Draft Standards on Nere, Sorghum, Cashew, Soybean & Derivatives Using EBA Approach
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Strengthening Climate Resilience in Benin: EBAFOSA’s Role in Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Standards
Bohicon, Benin – February 17-21, 2025
At the heart of Benin’s ongoing efforts to enhance climate resilience, a pivotal workshop took place at Princess Hotel in Bohicon. Organized under the Projet d’Adaptation Basée sur les Écosystèmes (PABE), this event focused on validating preliminary draft standards for key agricultural value chains—including néré, sorghum, cashew, soybean, and their derivatives—through the lens of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA).
A critical aspect of this effort is ensuring that these standards align with EBAFOSA’s Compliance Guidelines, which champion sustainable, climate-resilient agricultural practices. However, initial gaps in coordination between the Benin Bureau of Standards (ANM) and EBAFOSA risked limiting the potential of these guidelines in shaping national resilience policies.
EBAFOSA’s Intervention: Aligning Standards with Climate-Resilient Development
EBAFOSA’s representative at the workshop, Houngbo Emile, played a crucial role in bridging this gap by engaging stakeholders and ensuring that the ANM’s draft standards integrate EBAFOSA’s Compliance Guidelines. His efforts helped clarify EBAFOSA’s mission and ensure that the standards align with climate-smart agriculture principles.
EBAFOSA’s approach ensures that national standards promote eco-friendly agricultural value chains that are:
Sustainable: Leveraging nature-based solutions to enhance productivity. Inclusive: Empowering local communities and smallholder farmers. Resilient: Reducing climate vulnerabilities and enhancing food security.Moving Forward: Strengthening Institutional Collaboration
To maximize impact, closer collaboration between PABE, ANM, and EBAFOSA is essential. By aligning policies and compliance frameworks, Benin can accelerate the implementation of climate-resilient agriculture and drive sustainable economic growth.
Next Steps:
Strengthen engagement between EBAFOSA and national policymakers. Support the refinement of Benin’s ecosystem-based adaptation standards. Scale up awareness on compliance with EbA-based guidelines for agribusinesses and cooperatives.EBAFOSA remains committed to supporting Benin and other African nations in leveraging ecosystem-based adaptation for sustainable development.
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