Plant Health, Climate Change and Trade - TradeMark Southern Africa

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6.8. Focusing on Interdisciplinary approaches
Environmental health, human, animal and plant health and food safety are interrelated, and
connected to other global change factors such as globalization and technological changes.
The "One World One Health'' model as described by the Wildlife Conservation Society
(WCS) provides a framework for a more coordinated and holistic approach.
Interagency coordination and collaboration in countries should be enhanced e.g. through
joint research, investigation of risks, training, etc. to ensure efficient control efforts.
6.9. Mainstreaming adaptation in development cooperation and SPS capacity building.
Ministers responsible for Agriculture and representatives of Countries present at the African
Ministerial Conference on Climate–Smart Agriculture “Africa: A Call to Action" , called on the
African Union and other partners to mainstream climate change principles into the
Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) and to further
support the implementation of the AUC-­‐NEPAD Agriculture and Climate Change Adaptation-­‐
Mitigation Framework.
The World Bank's World Development report 2010 focused on the impact of climate change
on development. The report states that poverty reduction and sustainable development
remains core global priorities but climate change must be addressed as it threatens
development goals with most impact on poor countries and poor people. The reports urges
countries to act now and act together and to adapt development policies that are climate
sensitive and not postpone mitigation in developing countries as such approaches could
double mitigation costs later. Early action is therefore needed to identify and scale up best
practice for climate-­‐smart agriculture, to build capacity and experience, and to help clarify
future choices.
A study done by the World Bank in Mozambique found that integrating adaptation measures
across all sectors and institutional levels is important to safeguard existing and future
development progress in light of climate change. The study identified organisational barriers
and opportunities for mainstreaming adaptation into development assistance. It states that
government plays an important role to improve institutional coordination and integration of
cross-cutting issues, including phytosanitary concerns and food security, into development
planning. However, specialists in environmental units across all relevant sector institutions
are needed to identify and develop adaptation strategies and to strengthen organisational
capacity to address climate change risks and improve the network for awareness.
Mainstreaming adaptation in development cooperation and phytosanitary capacity building
will require efforts to raise awareness about the implications of climate change for SPS risks,
and the benefits of SPS capacity building for adaptation as well as trade and development.
6.10. Forming public-private partnerships and the role of the public sector
Institutional weaknesses of the National Plant Protection Organisations (NPPO's) in
developing and least developed countries were explicitly recognized during the incorporation
of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures into
COP 17 -­‐ Trademark Climate change impact on phytosanitary risks