INTRODUCTION
This training event is intended to enable households, communities and countries build resilience so as to strengthen their ability to manage change by maintaining or transforming their living standards in the face of shocks or stresses without compromising their long-term prospects.
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 support activities and other Development programmes.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
• Gain basic skills in livelihoods.
• Improve home-based livelihood opportunities for the rural poor.
• Acquire knowledge on agricultural livelihoods.
• Gain skills on cross-cutting roles in building livelihood resilience.
• Develop and describe how GIS can be used to study climate change and its consequences.
• Apply GIS as a decision support tool for climate change, agriculture and food security.
• Assess spatial data availability and understand the importance of spatial data infrastructure, for data sharing by organizations involved in; climate change, disaster reduction, agriculture and food security.
COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction to livelihoods
• Basic concepts and definitions
• Key factors impacting on livelihoods in developing countries
• Framework for livelihood analysis
• Rural livelihoods and diversity
• Determinants of livelihoods diversification
• Measuring resilience
• Resilience indicators
Agricultural Livelihoods
• Constraints to sustainable agricultural development
• Threats to food and nutrition security
• Disaster Risk Reduction for food and nutrition security
• Building livelihoods resilience in agriculture
• Effects of food security threats and constraints to agrarian change and rural development
Cross-cutting roles in building livelihood resilience
• Capacity development role
• Gender equity role
• Role of strategic partnerships in strengthening livelihoods
• Role of technology in enhancing livelihood support options
• Role of government and other development agencies
• Role of community participatory programs
Climate-Smart livelihoods management and application of GIS techniques
• GIS and Remote Sensing concepts in the context of climate change
• GIS project design and setup for various programs
• Sources of GIS data for climate change
• Basic use of QGIS Software in climate change adaptation
• Integrating data from different sources into QGIS
Data collection and analysis
• Climate change vulnerability and adaptation indicators
• Using handheld GPS devices for field data collection
• Mapping areas of climate change
• GIS as decision support tool for climate Change
• Data interpretation for preparedness and future reference
LOCATION: NAIROBI KENYA
DURATION: 5 DAYS
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