Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector

The dynamic nature of climate and its impacts on agriculture is rendering most of the existing adaptation and coping strategies unsupportive in many regions. Recent studies on economic sectors (including agriculture) across institutions and 24 counties have established the following: a widened gap b...

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Autor principal: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Kenya
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107394
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author Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Kenya
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description The dynamic nature of climate and its impacts on agriculture is rendering most of the existing adaptation and coping strategies unsupportive in many regions. Recent studies on economic sectors (including agriculture) across institutions and 24 counties have established the following: a widened gap between skills possessed by youth and those required by the job market; inadequate technical skills and knowledge on climate change and climate-smart technologies by the extension service providers; climate change has not been adequately integrated into Kenya’s formal agricultural education, extension and training systems such as the Kenya School of Agriculture (KSA), Agricultural Technology Development Centres (ATDCs), Agricultural Training Centres (ATCs) and Agriculture Technical Vocational Education and Training (ATVET); the existing policies and strategies for capacity building for the agriculture sector have limited provisions for promoting climate resilient and low carbon development solutions. These calls for integration of climate change into the formal education, extension and training systems; equipping the training institutions to facilitate adoption of climate-smart innovations; capacity building of the extension service providers to enhance utilization and adaptation of the appropriate support agricultural technologies, innovations and climate-smart farming practices.
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spelling CGSpace1073942025-01-27T15:00:52Z Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Kenya climate change agriculture food security resilience The dynamic nature of climate and its impacts on agriculture is rendering most of the existing adaptation and coping strategies unsupportive in many regions. Recent studies on economic sectors (including agriculture) across institutions and 24 counties have established the following: a widened gap between skills possessed by youth and those required by the job market; inadequate technical skills and knowledge on climate change and climate-smart technologies by the extension service providers; climate change has not been adequately integrated into Kenya’s formal agricultural education, extension and training systems such as the Kenya School of Agriculture (KSA), Agricultural Technology Development Centres (ATDCs), Agricultural Training Centres (ATCs) and Agriculture Technical Vocational Education and Training (ATVET); the existing policies and strategies for capacity building for the agriculture sector have limited provisions for promoting climate resilient and low carbon development solutions. These calls for integration of climate change into the formal education, extension and training systems; equipping the training institutions to facilitate adoption of climate-smart innovations; capacity building of the extension service providers to enhance utilization and adaptation of the appropriate support agricultural technologies, innovations and climate-smart farming practices. 2020-03-05 2020-03-05T13:33:54Z 2020-03-05T13:33:54Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107394 en Open Access application/pdf Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Republic of Kenya. 2020. Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector. Brief.
spellingShingle climate change
agriculture
food security
resilience
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, Kenya
Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector
title Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector
title_full Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector
title_fullStr Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector
title_full_unstemmed Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector
title_short Strengthening education, extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector
title_sort strengthening education extension and training to accelerate climate resilience and low carbon development in the agriculture sector
topic climate change
agriculture
food security
resilience
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107394
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