The contents of this report were compiled by UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) through reviews of freely available policy documents and literature on natural capital valuation and externalities across agri-food supply chains in Tanzania and Kenya, and by using open source data combined with scenario modelling and mapping to assess and visualise implications of changes in agriculture production for biodiversity and ecosystem functions under different socio-economic futures and in the face of climate change up to 2050. The work was carried out as a scoping exercise exploring issues at the intersection of policy development around economic development, agriculture, climate change and biodiversity, through a number of different analytical exercises, looking at what is already known in the literature and assessing the implications of future scenarios using existing models to identify potential issues for the future.
Building from United Nations Environment Programme - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Office's previous work in Tanzania focused on the Rufiji River Basin this report is a scoping study, looking across Tanzania as a whole and extending to cover neighbouring Kenya. It focusses on the interface between climate change, biodiversity and agriculture. This reflects the fact that Tanzania is one of the world’s megadiverse countries, has a population largely reliant on agriculture, but is also country exposed to significant climate risks. The same nexus of issues are equally clear in Kenya.
The aim of this report,TEEB Implementation: Supporting Biodiversity and Climate Friendly Land Management in Agricultural Landscapes - Background review for Kenya and Tanzania, is to assess the current knowledge on the values of biodiversity and ecosystem services in Tanzania and Kenya, to understand what can currently be readily assessed with respect to the interactions between climate change, biodiversity and agricultural development to look at major policy initiatives already in place in the environment and development space, and map key stakeholders.