Resources for Theme 'Crosscutting Issues'

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  How farmers' organisations can benefit of the FAO training on climate change

  

  fara | 2009-06-23 | details

  Interview with Thomas L. Price Senior Programme Officer Strategic Planning Unit Office of the Director-General Food and Agriculture Organisation

• Why farmers need incentives to invest in climate change strategies

  

  fara | 2009-06-23 | details

  Interview with Doug TAYLOR-FREEME - president of SACAU, Southern African Coordination of Agricultural Unions at the Sart-up workshop on the Support to Farmers'organisations in Africa Programme (SFOAP) - 17 to 19th of June 2009 in Johannesburg.

• Nganyi Indigenous Knowledge Adaptation Video

  

  blaneh | 2009-06-22 | details

  A 9 minute video from Kenya, filmed in June 2009, featuring the ICPAC-led project.

• Climate and agriculture panel William Hohentstein

  

  fara | 2009-06-09 | details

  Presentation by William Hohenstein, Director, Global Change Program Office, USDA.

• Climate and agriculture panel Ross Garnaut

  

  fara | 2009-06-09 | details

  Presentation by Ross Garnaut, Chair of the IFPRI Board of Trustees & Professor of Economics, the Australian National University.

• Climate and agriculture panel Gerald C. Nelson

  

  fara | 2009-06-09 | details

  Presentation by Gerald C. Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI.

• Climate and agriculture panel Joachim von Braun comments

  

  fara | 2009-06-09 | details

  Comments by Joachim von Braun, Director General of IFPRI

• Bio Circle: exploring multilateral research collaboration on climate change issues

  

  fara | 2009-06-09 | details

  Bio Circle. Interview with Jean-Francois Desvignes-Hicks Deputy Director Forum for European-Australian S&T cooperation.

• Climate and agriculture panel question and answer part 1

  

  fara | 2009-06-09 | details

  Part 1 of the question and answer session at the IFPRI panel discussion

• Climate and agriculture panel Joachim von Braun

  

  fara | 2009-06-09 | details

  Opening remarks by Joachim von Braun, Director General of IFPRI.

• What Africa can learn from Australian climate adaptation education

  

  fara | 2009-06-06 | details

  The recently completed World Bank Groups Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change emphasizes the need for financial support, knowledge sharing and capacity building as an urgent requirement to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change on development, in particular agriculture.

• Climate and agriculture panel question and answer part 2

  

  fara | 2009-06-06 | details

  Part 2 of the question and answer session at the IFPRI panel discussion

• Increasing the effectiveness of communicty radio in climate change adaptation

  

  fara | 2009-06-04 | details

  147 Community Radio stakeholders from more than 30 countries gathered in Abidjan, Côte d’ivoire for the 4th AMARC Pan African Conference. They analyzed the challenges to development and the situation of Community Radio in Africa and defined actions for “increasing the effectiveness of Community Radio in Poverty Reduction, Good Governance and Climate Change Adaptation”.

• How community radio helps to address climate change

  

  admin | 2009-05-29 | details

  Excerpts from interviews with African community radio broadcasters at the April 2009 AMARC Pan African Congress. We asked broadcasters about the importance of community radio to climate change and these were their thoughts.

• Overcoming barriers to sharing African knowledge for climate change adaptation

  

  fara | 2009-05-10 | details

  The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) has teamed up with Environment and Development in the Third World (ENDA-TM); IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to launch on 4th May the internet platform AfricaAdapt, a network that will ensure African knowledge on climate change adaptation is effectively gathered and shared.

• AfricaAdapt workshops

  

  fara | 2009-03-12 | details

  AfricaAdapt organized two workshops to train the network's Knowledge Sharing Officers (KSOs) in various skills and techniques related to the operations of the knowledge sharing network.

• Fresh solutions to food security

  

  fara | 2009-01-30 | details

  Kofi Annan,William H. Gates III, Irene B. Rosenfeld, Michael Treschow, Abhisit Vejjajiva with Josette Sheeran (debate of 1 hour)

• The Next Digital Experience

  

  fara | 2009-01-30 | details

  Social networking applications and sophisticated mobile devices are combining elements of the real and virtual worlds, and delivering an augmented experience of reality. How is this digital experience changing consumers and communities? (debate of 1 hour 3 minutes)

• State of Africa

  

  fara | 2009-01-30 | details

  The governance landscape of Africa is in transition with important democratic elections taking place across the continent. What political and economic actions are required to shape the future of Africa in a challenging global economic environment? (debate of 1 hour 4 minutes)

• Web-based resource to facilitate integration of climate change adaptation into development planning and assistance

  

  fara | 2008-12-15 | details

  The motivation for this two-day workshop came from the OECD-commissioned Recommendations for a Web-Based Resource to Facilitate Integration of Climate Change Adaptation into Development Planning and Assistance.

• Short video

  

  blaneh | 2002-05-05 | details

  6-minute video describing the project.

• AfricaAdapt promotional video

  

  blaneh | 2002-01-01 | details

  A short english-language video promoting the network.