MAS-CC 71022 Climate Smart Agriculture: Concepts & Applications - 2024

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Day 1 - Session 1 and 2 : Introductory lecture on Climate Change Science, its impact on different sectors.
Day 1 - Session 3 & 4 : Discussion and video on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Climate Change Risk on Food and Nutritional security
Day 2: What is climate-smart agriculture (CSA): Three pillars (Productivity, Adaptation, Mitigation) and key characteristics; Why CSA: Food security and climate change: three intertwined challenges; Managing landscapes for climate-smart agricultural systems; Water management: Potential impacts of climate change on water in agriculture, Vulnerability to climate change and resilience; Soils and their management for climate-smart agriculture: Challenges of climate change to soils, Soil principles for climate change adaptation and mitigation and enhancing resilience in different contexts. Sound Management of Energy for climate-smart agriculture: Energy and the agri-food system, Energy-smart food in the CSA context; Conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture: Genetic resources for food and agriculture, Genetic resources for food and agriculture; climate-smart crop production systems; climate-smart Livestock; climate-smart forestry; climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture; Developing sustainable and inclusive food value chains for climate-smart agriculture: Introduction to sustainable and inclusive food value chains; Local and international institutions: Key institutions for CSA initiatives; Mainstreaming CSA into National Policies and Programs; Financing climate-smart agriculture; Disaster risk reduction; Strengthening Livelihood Resilience; the role of safety nets, Capacity development for climate-smart agriculture.