The Food, Agriculture Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and the University of Leeds are pleased to invite you to a GCRF-AFRICAP knowledge-sharing seminar / webinar :
Climate-Smart Change?
Lessons from working with governments, NGOs and farmers on scaling up productive, resilient and low-emission agriculture in Africa under CCAFS
Date: Monday 17 June 2019 | Time: 1:00PM GMT | Duration: 90 MIN
For in person participation: University of Leeds Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 15
For Online participation Register here
Guest Speakers
Dr Todd Rosenstock (Senior Agriculture & Environmental Scientist) and Dr Christine Lamanna (Climate-change Ecologist & Decision Analyst), World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Todd Rosenstock and Christine Lamanna will lead a seminar on mainstreaming climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in sub-Saharan Africa. They have worked extensively with development partners including NEPAD, national and sub national governments, iNGOs and farmers to build the evidence base to support informed decision making and efforts to scale up CSA. The results have influenced policies, programming and investments in more than 10 countries. Their work is part of the ICRAF’s Thematic Research Area called Land Health Decisions (LHD), an interdisciplinary team including a diverse range of expertise from soil to decision science.
This webinar is part of a two day pump-priming visit to spur collaborations between the University of Leeds and ICRAF on CSA.
Act 1: Evidence, influence and change. ICRAF will showcase experiences of conducting and disseminating CSA research in Africa. This will be framed under the auspices of linking knowledge to action and by the arc of CSA science. They will specifically discuss what has worked and the challenges to creating evidence and informing change in the dynamic environment and in close partnership with next users of the information. Information about LHD and ICRAF programs beyond CSA will also be discussed, and more details on Todd and Christine’s research can be found here.
Act 2: The CSA Compendium. The second part of the seminar will discuss the team’s flagship knowledge product. The CSA Compendium is a meta-dataset compiled to explore questions around the ‘climate-smartness’ of agricultural technologies. That is, what are the effects of shifting from one management practice to another on productivity, resilience and mitigation outcomes, with an interest to uncover what the data say from what works where and for whom. The Compendium contains more than 80,000 observations from over 1400 African agricultural studies linked to detailed covariates such as climate, soil, and socio-economics.
Open to all. Please contact p.r.steward@leeds.ac.uk and h.coskeran@leeds.ac.uk if you are seeking an individual meeting with Todd and Christine.
GCRF-AFRICAP is a major programme to make agriculture and food production in sub-Saharan Africa more productive, sustainable and resilient to climate change.
We would welcome questions submitted in advance. For further information on GCRF-AFRICAP, please visit our website: https://africap.info/.
Follow the proceedings of the webinar on social media:
@gcrfafricap @ICRAF @CGIARclimate #AFRICAP
Regards, Thembi
Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
Physical address: 141 Cresswell Road, Weavind Park 0184 Pretoria, South Africa
Postal address: Private Bag X2087, Silverton 0127 Pretoria, South Africa
Tel: +27 (0) 12 804 2966 / 3186; Fax: +27 (0) 12 804 0600
Mobile: +27 (0) 82 799 1382
Email: sndema@fanrpan.org
Skype: Sithembile.n.n
Twitter: @SLMwams
Url: www.fanrpan.org
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Climate-Smart Change?
Lessons from working with governments, NGOs and farmers on scaling up productive, resilient and low-emission agriculture in Africa under CCAFS
Date: Monday 17 June 2019 | Time: 1:00PM GMT | Duration: 90 MIN
For in person participation: University of Leeds Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 15
For Online participation Register here
Guest Speakers
Dr Todd Rosenstock (Senior Agriculture & Environmental Scientist) and Dr Christine Lamanna (Climate-change Ecologist & Decision Analyst), World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Todd Rosenstock and Christine Lamanna will lead a seminar on mainstreaming climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in sub-Saharan Africa. They have worked extensively with development partners including NEPAD, national and sub national governments, iNGOs and farmers to build the evidence base to support informed decision making and efforts to scale up CSA. The results have influenced policies, programming and investments in more than 10 countries. Their work is part of the ICRAF’s Thematic Research Area called Land Health Decisions (LHD), an interdisciplinary team including a diverse range of expertise from soil to decision science.
This webinar is part of a two day pump-priming visit to spur collaborations between the University of Leeds and ICRAF on CSA.
Act 1: Evidence, influence and change. ICRAF will showcase experiences of conducting and disseminating CSA research in Africa. This will be framed under the auspices of linking knowledge to action and by the arc of CSA science. They will specifically discuss what has worked and the challenges to creating evidence and informing change in the dynamic environment and in close partnership with next users of the information. Information about LHD and ICRAF programs beyond CSA will also be discussed, and more details on Todd and Christine’s research can be found here.
Act 2: The CSA Compendium. The second part of the seminar will discuss the team’s flagship knowledge product. The CSA Compendium is a meta-dataset compiled to explore questions around the ‘climate-smartness’ of agricultural technologies. That is, what are the effects of shifting from one management practice to another on productivity, resilience and mitigation outcomes, with an interest to uncover what the data say from what works where and for whom. The Compendium contains more than 80,000 observations from over 1400 African agricultural studies linked to detailed covariates such as climate, soil, and socio-economics.
Open to all. Please contact p.r.steward@leeds.ac.uk and h.coskeran@leeds.ac.uk if you are seeking an individual meeting with Todd and Christine.
GCRF-AFRICAP is a major programme to make agriculture and food production in sub-Saharan Africa more productive, sustainable and resilient to climate change.
We would welcome questions submitted in advance. For further information on GCRF-AFRICAP, please visit our website: https://africap.info/.
Follow the proceedings of the webinar on social media:
@gcrfafricap @ICRAF @CGIARclimate #AFRICAP
Regards, Thembi
Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
Physical address: 141 Cresswell Road, Weavind Park 0184 Pretoria, South Africa
Postal address: Private Bag X2087, Silverton 0127 Pretoria, South Africa
Tel: +27 (0) 12 804 2966 / 3186; Fax: +27 (0) 12 804 0600
Mobile: +27 (0) 82 799 1382
Email: sndema@fanrpan.org
Skype: Sithembile.n.n
Twitter: @SLMwams
Url: www.fanrpan.org
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