INTRODUCTION
Food insecurity and climate change are the two major global challenges humanity is facing, and climate change is increasingly being perceived as one of the greatest challenges for food security. This is because reduces the productivity of the majority of existing food systems and harms the livelihoods of those already vulnerable to food insecurity. Conversely, agricultural activities including indirect effects through deforestation and other forms of land conversion account for about one-third of total global warming potential from GHG emissions today. This training is thus 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.
Module 1: Defining Terms and Conceptualizing Relationships
Food Systems and Security
- Food Security
- Food System
- Food Chain
Climate and Climate Change
- Climate and its measurement
- Climate system
- Climate variability and climate change
- Effects of global warming on the climate system
- Acclimatization, adaptation and Mitigation
Climate Change and Food Security
- Agriculture, climate and food security
- Food Security and climate change ; conceptual framework
- Vulnerability to climate change
- Livelihood vulnerability
Module 2: Climate change impacts on food security
- Main climate changes of importance for the agriculture sectors
- Impacts on agro-ecosystems
- Economic and social consequences
- Vulnerabilities determine the importance of the net impact on food security and nutrition
- Impacts on food security and nutrition
Module 3: Ensuring food security and good nutrition in the context of climate change
- Increase resilience of livelihoods
- Build resilience of agricultural systems
- Managing genetic resources
- Investing in resilient agricultural development
- Investing in systems to assess risks, vulnerabilities and adaptation options
- Enabling adaptation through policies and institutions
Module 4: Protecting food security through adaptation to climate change
Living with uncertainty and managing new risks
- Improving the quality of information and its use
- Promoting insurance schemes for climate change risk
- Developing national risk management policies
Strengthening resilience and managing change
- Adjusting consumption and responding to new health risks
- Intensifying food and agricultural production
- Creating an eco-friendly energy economy
- Adapting agriculture-based livelihood strategies
Module 5: Protecting food security through mitigation of climate change
- Reducing emissions
- Reducing agricultural and forestry emissions of carbon dioxide
- Reducing agricultural emissions of methane and nitrous oxide
- Sequestering carbon
- Reforestation and afforestation
- Rehabilitating degraded grasslands
- Rehabilitating cultivated soils
- Promoting conservation agriculture
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
This training can also be customized for your institution upon request. You can have it delivered your preferred location.
For further inquiries, please contact us on details below:
Tel: +254 (0) 739167709.
Email: training @versedpro.com
REQUIREMENTS
Participants should be reasonably proficient in English.
TRAINING FEE
The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, lunch, and study visits.
All participants will additionally cater for their, travel expenses, visa application, insurance, and other personal expenses.
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact us below.
Email: [email protected]
Mob: +254 7739167709
ONLINE REGISTRATION
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