Capacity Building Opportunities for Climate Risk Management in Senegal

Capacity development is an important part of the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) strategy to make climate services and climate-smart agriculture more accessible to millions of smallholder farmers across Africa. To inform planning towards AICCRA-Senegal capacity dev...

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Main Authors: Diop, Mbaye, Grossi, Amanda, Hansen, James, Konte, Oumar, Lecuyer, Anais, Tall, Thierno, Trzaska, Sylwia, Whitbread, Anthony M., Worou, Nadine
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119795
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author Diop, Mbaye
Grossi, Amanda
Hansen, James
Konte, Oumar
Lecuyer, Anais
Tall, Thierno
Trzaska, Sylwia
Whitbread, Anthony M.
Worou, Nadine
author_browse Diop, Mbaye
Grossi, Amanda
Hansen, James
Konte, Oumar
Lecuyer, Anais
Tall, Thierno
Trzaska, Sylwia
Whitbread, Anthony M.
Worou, Nadine
author_facet Diop, Mbaye
Grossi, Amanda
Hansen, James
Konte, Oumar
Lecuyer, Anais
Tall, Thierno
Trzaska, Sylwia
Whitbread, Anthony M.
Worou, Nadine
author_sort Diop, Mbaye
collection Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace)
description Capacity development is an important part of the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) strategy to make climate services and climate-smart agriculture more accessible to millions of smallholder farmers across Africa. To inform planning towards AICCRA-Senegal capacity development objectives, this paper reviews capacity gaps that currently limit the farm-level benefits of climate services in Senegal, and presents opportunities for competency-based curriculum and training to strengthen capacity to incorporate climate knowledge into agricultural decision making from farm to national scales. Although Senegal has a strong foundation for agricultural climate services, current delivery strategies leave a gap in farmers’ capacity to use probabilistic information at a climate variability time scale. A gender plan that incorporates the channels that rural women use can help ensure that agricultural climate services reduce existing gender-based inequalities. Short-term training for the network of organizations (ANCAR, NGOs, producer organizations) that provide extension and advisory services provides a promising opportunity to improve the use of climate services at the farm level. Other promising targets for building capacity to utilise climate information include university agriculture programs and local level multi-stakeholder engagement platforms. Ongoing curriculum development activities in Ethiopia offer useful lessons, and an agricultural extension short course curriculum that offers a potential starting point for efforts in Senegal.
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spelling CGSpace1197952025-12-08T09:54:28Z Capacity Building Opportunities for Climate Risk Management in Senegal Diop, Mbaye Grossi, Amanda Hansen, James Konte, Oumar Lecuyer, Anais Tall, Thierno Trzaska, Sylwia Whitbread, Anthony M. Worou, Nadine agriculture climate-smart agriculture capacity building Capacity development is an important part of the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) strategy to make climate services and climate-smart agriculture more accessible to millions of smallholder farmers across Africa. To inform planning towards AICCRA-Senegal capacity development objectives, this paper reviews capacity gaps that currently limit the farm-level benefits of climate services in Senegal, and presents opportunities for competency-based curriculum and training to strengthen capacity to incorporate climate knowledge into agricultural decision making from farm to national scales. Although Senegal has a strong foundation for agricultural climate services, current delivery strategies leave a gap in farmers’ capacity to use probabilistic information at a climate variability time scale. A gender plan that incorporates the channels that rural women use can help ensure that agricultural climate services reduce existing gender-based inequalities. Short-term training for the network of organizations (ANCAR, NGOs, producer organizations) that provide extension and advisory services provides a promising opportunity to improve the use of climate services at the farm level. Other promising targets for building capacity to utilise climate information include university agriculture programs and local level multi-stakeholder engagement platforms. Ongoing curriculum development activities in Ethiopia offer useful lessons, and an agricultural extension short course curriculum that offers a potential starting point for efforts in Senegal. 2022-06-09 2022-06-09T15:46:42Z 2022-06-09T15:46:42Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119795 en fr Open Access application/pdf application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Diop M, Grossi A, Hansen J, Konte O, Lecuyer A, Tall T, Trzaska S, Whitbread A, Worou N. 2022. Capacity Building Opportunities for Climate Risk Management in Senegal. AICCRA working paper no.4. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
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climate-smart agriculture
capacity building
Diop, Mbaye
Grossi, Amanda
Hansen, James
Konte, Oumar
Lecuyer, Anais
Tall, Thierno
Trzaska, Sylwia
Whitbread, Anthony M.
Worou, Nadine
Capacity Building Opportunities for Climate Risk Management in Senegal
title Capacity Building Opportunities for Climate Risk Management in Senegal
title_full Capacity Building Opportunities for Climate Risk Management in Senegal
title_fullStr Capacity Building Opportunities for Climate Risk Management in Senegal
title_full_unstemmed Capacity Building Opportunities for Climate Risk Management in Senegal
title_short Capacity Building Opportunities for Climate Risk Management in Senegal
title_sort capacity building opportunities for climate risk management in senegal
topic agriculture
climate-smart agriculture
capacity building
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119795
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