The inaugural Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit is taking place on 15-16 May at 2018 at Trademark Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya.
The Summit will unite senior representatives from governments, UN and donor agencies, farmers’ associations, cooperatives, NGOs and CBOs, research institutes, investors and the private sector to look at innovations, partnerships and financing to advance climate smart agriculture in East Africa.
The agenda will look at scaling the adoption of innovations in CSA practices, resilient agricultural systems to address climate change, supporting and enabling policy frameworks, and securing financial investment for CSA. View agenda
By offering keynote addresses, panel discussions and interactive roundtable sessions, the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit enables robust debates on sustainable agricultural transformation and innovations in seed technology, soil and drought management in the region.
Topics To Be Addressed During The Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit:
INNOVATIONS & CHALLENGES IN CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE PRACTICES
Scaling the adoption of innovations in climate-smart agriculture practices
- Sustainable and nutrition-smart food production
- Agricultural transformation and mechanisation trends
- Innovations and policy for agricultural productivity and bio-conservation
- Improving and maintaining good soil quality
- Water management adaptation to improve food security within the context of CSA
- Resilience agricultural systems to address climate change: Early warning systems, geospatial analysis, remote sensing
- Lack of data and information and appropriate analytical tools at local and national levels
- Irrigation best practice: Year-round cropping, efficient water utilization, drought management and irrigation solutions
- Crop diversification: Popularization of new crops and crop varieties
- ICT for agri and mAgri solutions: Supporting farmers through technology; data collection and sharing among actors
- Supporting and enabling policy frameworks
- Increasing cross-industry research collaboration and coordination of initiatives for CSA
- Linking government, civil society and NGOs and strengthening Public-Private-People-Partnerships
SECURING FINANCIAL INVESTMENT FOR CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE
- Lack of adequate investment at the national/regional level and high up-front cost of investment in CSA at the farm level
- Ensuring adequate and innovative financing mechanisms and effective risk-sharing schemes
- Innovation in risk-mitigation finance and insurance schemes to protect farmers against losses
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For more information about the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit, visit csa-africa.aidforum.orgor email Madeleine Giles, Marketing Executive, Aid & international Development Forum (AIDF) at marketing@aidforum.org