2 hours
Climate Smart Soil and Land management
Agriculture & Food Security
English
Delivery Modality
Offline
Online self-paced
Theme
Risk-Informed Planning
Ecosystem-based Solutions
Integrating DRR/CCA
Audience
Government
Sectoral Ministries
UN Staff
Agencies
FAO
Certification
Yes
Last Updated
Nov-18
This series of courses analyses climate change impacts on agriculture, food security and food systems and provides an overview of the main climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in agriculture. It also introduces the Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) approach and describes the 5-step process to implement it. The series comprises the following 7 courses:
- Introduction to climate-smart agriculture
- Climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture
- Climate-smart forestry
- Climate-smart livestock production
- Climate-smart soil and land management
- Climate-smart crop production
- Water management for climate-smart agriculture
You will learn about
- Climate change and its causes
- Climate change impacts on agriculture, food security and food systems
- The concept of climate change adaptation and mitigation and the related strategies that could be put in place in agriculture
- The CSA approach and the 5-step process to implement it
- Management practices for climate-smart agriculture across productive systems