Climate Smart Agricultural Technologies and Management Practices

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Course description

About the Course

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an integrative approach to address the challenges of food security and climate change by sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes, adapting and building resilience to climate change and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gases emissions, where possible. Modern technologies and advances in the agriculture sector, such as inorganic fertilizers, pesticides, feeds, supplements, high yielding varieties, and land management and irrigation techniques have been proved as vital in increasing production. This course expounds on how climate-smart technologies and practices can be implemented with minimal challenges to support food security under the new realities of climate change.

Target Participants

This course targets participants working in agriculture research and climate change. The course is also suitable for government and NGO staff with projects in climate change.

What you will learn

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

  • Conduct participatory evaluation of CSA technologies and practices
  • Develop, use and adapt research methods to fill gaps in evidence on climate-smart agriculture
  • Appreciate Evidence, investment planning and application domains for CSA technologies and practices
  • Make informed choices for climate-smart agriculture-related programming
  • Evaluate the business models, incentives and innovative finance for scaling CSA
  • Implement successful scaling-up strategies for CSA
  • Use GIS and Remote sensing technology in CSA 

Course duration

5 Days

Course outline (read more)

Climate Change and Variability

  • Terminologies used in climate change and variability
  • What causes climate change
  • Impact of climate change on agriculture

Climate Smart Agriculture

  • What is Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
  • Key pillars of CSA
  • Key Characteristics of CSA
  • Examples of CSA practices in Kenya

Conservation agriculture

  • What is Conservation Agriculture and the terminologies used in conservation agriculture
  • Guiding principles for productive conservation agriculture
  • Weed control under CA farming systems
  • Benefits of CA
  • Constraints and opportunities to Adoption of CA

Soil and Water Conservation

  • Introduction to the principles and different soil and water conservation technologies.
  • Steps and principles for design and construction of Soil and Water conservation technology interventions
  • Appropriate locations for technology application; advantages and disadvantages of each soil and water conservation technologies.
  • Farmer experiences and challenges of SWC adoption

Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM)

  • What is ISFM and the importance of using it
  • Principles and key considerations in devising ISFM strategies
  • ISFM practices and their rationale
  • ISFM guidelines for integrated fertilizer use

Agroforestry

  • Terminologies used in agroforestry (Agro-silvicultural; Silvopastoral; Entomo-silviculture; Aqua-silviculture)
  • Agroforestry systems
  • Adaptation and mitigation benefits of agroforestry

Agricultural Insurance

  • What is agricultural insurance and its importance
  • Benefits of crop insurance

Bio-Energy in Climate Smart Agriculture

  • What is bio-energy
  • Benefits and disadvantages of bio-energy

Gender and Policy in Climate Smart Agriculture

  • Defining the gender concept, terminologies used in gender and role in CSA
  • Gender equality in the three pillars of CSA
  • Gender and policy related constraints to uptake of CSA practices 

Evaluation of CSA technologies and practices

  • Participatory evaluation of CSA technologies and practices
  • Key research findings on climate-smart agriculture
  • Cost benefit analysis of CSA technologies and practices 

Other topics

  • Business models, incentives and innovative finance for scaling CSA
  • Scaling-up strategies for CSA
  • Introduction to GIS and Remote sensing technology in CSA
Course Leader

Dr. Moses Gweyi.

LinkedIn: mgweyi
LinkedIn: mgweyi

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