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Voices from the field: participatory approaches of Climate smart agriculture practices, Farmer field schools and indigenous Chakra systems

Concept Note and Agenda

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 1p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Promoting community-based approaches is crucial to finding concrete, adapted and sustainable solutions to climate change in the agriculture sector because it enables integrating scientific insights into local knowledge systems, and empowering local actors to take the lead role in improving their production systems. Organized by FAO in collaboration with the Government of Senegal, the Government of Quebec, the Ministry of Ecological Transition of Italy, the Government of Zambia and the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Germany, this event aims at highlighting the potential of community-based, bottom-up strategies in agriculture to implement and scale up climate change commitments. In particular, the event will showcase three approaches that leverage this potential: Farmer Field Schools (FFS), indigenous Chakra systems and Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA).

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