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Xiu Yun Zhang, a farmer representative from the Farmers’ Seed Network in China: One seed is a life. That is why I continue my seed guardian role for 7 years. Session 1E on nature-based solutions highlighted the importance of organising local communities to build social capital, resilience and access markets.

Xiu Yun Zhang, a farmer representative from the Farmers’ Seed Network in China reported that local farmers were losing their traditional seeds until Yinching Song from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences came to the village to discuss seed and plant breeding.

Local varieties of maize work well in the mountainous regions because they're resilient, and the network has organised a women's cooperative to save, breed and share seeds, and have introduced local seeds across four villages. They now have a community seed bank with 100+ crop varieties including 50 maize, 8 wheat, 5 rice – all distributed to women to plant.

The Farmer Seed Network engages over 30 communities in 10 provinces in China – highlighting the importance of organising local communities to create social capital and build resilience. 10:02
09.11.2021

Early warning action

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09.11.2021
In her presentation to session 1B, Dr. Mandira Singh Shrestha, a Programme Coordinator of Climate Services Initiative at International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal, presented examples of how climate change is impacting on different regions in Nepal due to increasing severity and frequency of extreme weather and flooding.

Research and investment in early warning and early action has seen progress made due to technological advances, investing in resilient infrastructure and building effective mulitstakeholder partnerships.

The closing slide provided a useful summary of  elements needed for effective early warning action:

Annette McGill

On Climate Finance: Having local decision-making enables quick response to climate-related disasters - experiences in Pakistan show they can respond to multiple situations within 24 hours. Pilot scheme proved hugely successful in demonstrating how you can get finance to places where there is no state mechanism for channelling climate finance.

Lessons include the need to have local capacity in order to make decisions and having an amount of funds available in a pool so money can travel quickly when needed. Muhammad Amad, executive director of Initiative for Development and Empowerment Axis (IDEA), speaking in session 1C. 09:16
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