CTA Seminar 2008 on the Implications of Climate Change for Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems
CTA Seminar 2008 on the Implications of Climate Change for Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems In October 2008 CTA organized an international seminar on the implications of climate change for sustainable agricultural production systems in ACP countries. It brought together about 200 participants from the ACP region, EU national institutions and regional and international organizations. The CTA Seminar identified ways of improving access to climate change information in ACP countries. Read more about the seminar …
Prior to the Seminar information was generated by an e-discussion – with 550 participants - that focused on four key farming systems and a competition that encouraged 25 journalists to write about local experiences of climate change. Web-based sources of information on climate change were also identified for the Seminar website.
During the Seminar more than 225 experts including scientists, policy makers, development workers, donors and journalists presented evidence of climate change and discussed the technical options for adaptation and mitigation in multidisciplinary working sessions. Field trips made during the Seminar showed how communities were using agrosylvopastoral techniques, forestry technologies and anti-erosion strategies to deal with increasing desertification.
Specially commissioned, short TV documentary studies of climate change – Initiative Africaref - were shown during the Seminar and later broadcast on more than 44 national television channels in ACP countries. CTA is also disseminating Seminar results via its website and in specially targeted publications. A special issue of spore on climate change has also been produced to widely disseminated in ACP countries.
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