Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management through Ethiopia’s ATVET Agricultural Education System

Strengthening the capacity of agricultural extension and advisory services (EAS) to use available climate information services (CIS) to support farmers to better manage climate risks is an important part of the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project strategy to en...

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Main Authors: Hansen, James, Dinku, Tufa, Grossi, Amanda, Belay, Berhanu, Lemma, Esayas, Alemayehu, Fikadu, Degene, Teferi, Solomon, Dawit
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177182
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author Hansen, James
Dinku, Tufa
Grossi, Amanda
Belay, Berhanu
Lemma, Esayas
Alemayehu, Fikadu
Degene, Teferi
Solomon, Dawit
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Belay, Berhanu
Degene, Teferi
Dinku, Tufa
Grossi, Amanda
Hansen, James
Lemma, Esayas
Solomon, Dawit
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Alemayehu, Fikadu
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Solomon, Dawit
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description Strengthening the capacity of agricultural extension and advisory services (EAS) to use available climate information services (CIS) to support farmers to better manage climate risks is an important part of the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project strategy to enhance agricultural resilience in Africa. Ethiopia’s strong public agricultural extension system offers particularly promising opportunity to scale the impacts of agricultural CIS and build resilience of the country’s agriculture sector. The Climate Risk Management in Agricultural Extension (CRMAE) is a suite of country-adapted curricula, at varying stages of co-development and adoption in six countries (Ethiopia, Senegal, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Mali). This brief summarizes a multi-year process of co-developing the CRMAE curriculum in Ethiopia, and formally adapting it for Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) colleges that train future extension agents.
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spelling CGSpace1771822025-12-10T00:46:40Z Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management through Ethiopia’s ATVET Agricultural Education System Hansen, James Dinku, Tufa Grossi, Amanda Belay, Berhanu Lemma, Esayas Alemayehu, Fikadu Degene, Teferi Solomon, Dawit climate change adaptation climate smart agriculture agricultural extension risk management training curriculum Strengthening the capacity of agricultural extension and advisory services (EAS) to use available climate information services (CIS) to support farmers to better manage climate risks is an important part of the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project strategy to enhance agricultural resilience in Africa. Ethiopia’s strong public agricultural extension system offers particularly promising opportunity to scale the impacts of agricultural CIS and build resilience of the country’s agriculture sector. The Climate Risk Management in Agricultural Extension (CRMAE) is a suite of country-adapted curricula, at varying stages of co-development and adoption in six countries (Ethiopia, Senegal, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Mali). This brief summarizes a multi-year process of co-developing the CRMAE curriculum in Ethiopia, and formally adapting it for Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) colleges that train future extension agents. 2025-10-10 2025-10-16T19:51:45Z 2025-10-16T19:51:45Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177182 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Hansen J, Dinku T, Grossi A, Belay B, Lemma E, Alemayehu F, Degene T, Solomon D. 2025. Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management through Ethiopia’s ATVET Agricultural Education System. AICCRA Brief. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
spellingShingle climate change adaptation
climate smart agriculture
agricultural extension
risk management
training curriculum
Hansen, James
Dinku, Tufa
Grossi, Amanda
Belay, Berhanu
Lemma, Esayas
Alemayehu, Fikadu
Degene, Teferi
Solomon, Dawit
Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management through Ethiopia’s ATVET Agricultural Education System
title Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management through Ethiopia’s ATVET Agricultural Education System
title_full Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management through Ethiopia’s ATVET Agricultural Education System
title_fullStr Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management through Ethiopia’s ATVET Agricultural Education System
title_full_unstemmed Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management through Ethiopia’s ATVET Agricultural Education System
title_short Mainstreaming Climate Risk Management through Ethiopia’s ATVET Agricultural Education System
title_sort mainstreaming climate risk management through ethiopia s atvet agricultural education system
topic climate change adaptation
climate smart agriculture
agricultural extension
risk management
training curriculum
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177182
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