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Name: Climate Smart Agriculture Training | Kenya
Price: 950 KES
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Climate Smart Agriculture Training | Kenya

Category: Climate Change and Agriculture Training

Overview

The Expedition

The Climate-smart Agriculture Training is designed to help participants build practical skills that link climate resilience with sustainable farming. This hands-on program explores how to balance climate risk mitigation, adaptation, and food security while promoting productivity across agricultural value chains.

Whether you’re a policymaker, development practitioner, or agribusiness professional, this course offers a solid foundation in climate-smart strategies to support sustainable agriculture. The training is available both in person and virtually, with a certificate awarded upon successful completion.

Program Objectives

By the end of this Climate-smart Agriculture Training Course, Participants will able to:

Appreciate the role of climate-smart agriculture in mitigating the consequences of climate change
Establish linkages between climate change and food security and comprehend the need for enhancing sustainable production
Familiarize themselves with climate-smart applications in various agricultural domains
Integrate climate-smart thinking into agriculture policy planning and promote climate-smart transformation
Implement participatory approaches while designing the country’s agriculture development plans
Employ climate-smart thinking when creating sustainable agriculture development project plans

Target Audience

Policymakers
The staff of Agriculture Ministries
Development practitioners
Development project/program planners and managers
Agriculture sectoral specialists
Those willing to transform traditional agricultural practices into climate-smart ones

Training Period

Classroom: 5 Days
Online: 7 Days

Modules

1: Foundations of Climate Change, Food Security and Climate Smart Agriculture

Climate change and its implications for the agriculture industry
How does the agriculture sector contribute to climate change?
Linking climate change and food security; The effects on different groups of society
Understanding climate-smart agriculture, its benefits, and objectives
Case studies highlighting the effects of climate change on different agricultural systems
Principles of climate-smart agriculture
Gender Issues in climate-smart Agriculture

2: Climate Smart Crop, Soil, Water and Livestock Management Practices

Climate-smart crop management – selection and diversification
Water resources management and irrigation techniques
Soil health management and conservation
Integrated pest management and disease control
Climate-smart livestock management – production, grazing, productivity improvement
Nutrition strategies to reduce emissions
Animal health and disease management

3: Advanced Climate Smart Technologies, Climate Data and Risk Management

Climate-smart farming – agroforestry and silvopasture
Conservation of agriculture and reduced tillage
Precision agriculture; Use of advanced technologies
Agro ecological approaches
Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting climate data
Applying climate forecasting in agriculture
Climate risk assessment; Risk mitigation and decision making

4: Policy, Financing and Strategic Integration of Climate Smart Agriculture

Policy and financing of climate-smart agriculture
Promoting climate-smart transformation
Integration of climate change considerations into agricultural development plans
Participatory Approaches and stakeholder engagement
Mainstreaming CSA at various levels
Challenges and opportunities associated with CSA

5: Case Studies, Best Practices and Climate Smart Transformation Dialogues

Case Studies/Dialogue on Climate-smart Transformation/Best Practices /Challenges

Delivery Method

This program is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group work and case studies. Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.