INTRODUCTION
This training is intended to equip participants with strategies to realize food security, reduce climate change effects in agriculture, as well as reduce the contribution of the agriculture sector to climate change presently and in the future.
DURATION
5 days
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This course is intended for various actors in Agriculture Extension (Agricultural extension officers, senior agricultural officials and policy makers) working with communities, in governments, funding agencies, Research organizations and non-government organizations among others for Agriculture.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the training, the learner will be able to;
• Integrate food security and climate change concerns.
• Increase resilience of food systems to climate change.
• Develop low emissions agricultural strategies that do not compromise food security.
• Collect information, share knowledge and refocus research to a more set of complex set of objectives in the context of vulnerability analysis in climate change and food security in future.
• Facilitate participation of stakeholders in decision making and implementation.
COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1: Impact of climate change on food and nutrition
• Current food security status
• Vulnerability, food Security and climate change
o Food systems and climate change
o Role of woman in agricultural production
o Biological effects on climate change on crops, livestock and agricultural systems
o Evidence of climate change effects on agricultural production
o Climate change effects and food security interventions from harvest to market
Module 2: Assessing impacts of climate change on food and nutrition tomorrow: Plausible scenarios of the future
• Introduction
• Climate scenarios and vulnerability of food and nutrition security to climate change
• Vulnerable regions, systems and people
• Data and modeling issues
• Scenarios that combine biophysical and socioeconomic futures
Module 3: Adaptation: Response options for food security challenges from climate change
• Introduction
• Contemporary adaptation
• Increasing the general resilience of the food system
• What can farmers do to adapt to climate change
• How to support food producers to adapt to climate change
• Climate change adaptation in the food chain
• Research challenges for adaptation
• Policy interventions
Module 4: Agriculture and GHG Emissions: Mitigation options with food security synergies
• Introduction
• Agricultures current contribution to greenhouse gas emissions
• GHG emissions from land use change
• Mitigation options and food security
• Policy interventions
Module 5: Coordination and coherence of food security and climate change policies and actions
• Four principles of policies and action
• Partnerships for climate sensitive agricultural research and development
o Role of public and private sectors in safeguarding food security
o Cooperate for research
o Cooperate for extension
o Capacity building
EVENT DETAILS & ONLINE REGISTRATION
LOCATION: NAIROBI, KENYA
EVENT DATE: 17th JULY 2017
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