International Research Institutions

Presentation 'Carbon footprint of Agriculture' by Prof. B. Lalljee, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mauritius.

Prof. Lalljee talks about

• What is a carbon footprint?
• Importance of carbon accounting
• Emissions from agriculture and food
• Greenhouse-gases from average food consumption
• Methods of calculating the carbon footprint
• What is climate-smart agriculture (CSA)?
• CSA as key to Paris Agreement goals
• CSA practices for reducing carbon footprint

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation on 'Climate change in agriculture with a value chain perspective' by Dr. Brinda Ramasawmy, Faculty of Agriculture, Univesity of Mauritius.

The presentation covers the following:

• What are Agri-Food Value Chains and how do they work?
• Adapted vs. non adapted value chains
• Actors in the agri-food value chain
• Nexus approach
• Adaptive Value Chain Approaches: examples and research findings
• Potentional objectives and areas for exploitation in the Mauritian context

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation on 'Protected cultivation: an alternative for farmers to adapt to effects of climate change' by Navindra Boodia, Senior Lecturer at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mauritius.

Topics addressed:

• Background: Definition, Types of structures, the current context, objectives
• Siting and design considerations
• Adaptation to climate change effects
• Sheltered farming: in the context of CSA
• Take-home lessons

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation 'Strategies in sustainable intensification of livestock production and its role in climate smart agriculture' by K. Boodhoo, Agricultural Production and Systems Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mauritius.

Outline of the content:

• Role of Livestock Production and the SDGs
• Typical Animal Production Systems
• The Livestock and climate change dynamics
• Areas of CSA interventions in livestock
• Barriers to implementation of adaptation and mitigation practices

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Action learning: Dimensions of adaptation options. Short exercise on adaptation options presented by Catalina Berger.

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation 'Nutrition-sensitive climate-smart agriculture (NSCSA)' by Simba Sibanda, FANRPAN.

Highlights of the presentation are:

• Food and Nutrition Security: What is it all about?
• The Food and Nutrition Security Situation in Mauritius
• Climate Change and Nutrition –what are the linkages?
• Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: Why and how?
• Examples of nutrition-sensitive approaches in agriculture

Held at the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

This presentation 'Climate change and marine environment' was held jointly by J. Carpouron, A. Appadoo and V. Bhoyroo, Deptartment for Agricultural and Food Science, University of Mauritius.

Including

• facts about the climate system and climate change
• aquatic systems: ocean acidification, zooplankton, coral bleaching, stormy weather, harmful algae blooms
• climate change: the youth perspective: results of a study conducted with youth about their perception of climate change

The presentation 'Climate-smart agriculture: overview' by Wiebke Förch, GIZ programm advisor at CCARDESA.

The presentation contains information about

• Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concepts and technologies
• the challenge for CSA programs
• the enabling environment for CSA
• concepts and technologies for sustainable use of soil and water
• Agroforestry
• (Post) harvest losses/ food losses
• Indigenous varieties/ breeds
• Integrated pest management (IPM) and biological pest repellents
• Agricultural risk insurance

Held at the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

The presentation 'Climate-smart agriculture - overview (local)' by Shane Hardowar, University of Mauritius.

Covering: 

• an introduction to climate-smart agriculture (CSA)
• project/research on CSA
• adaptive and CSA measures practised by farmers
• examples

Held at the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

This presentation 'Agriculture: victim, culprit and potentials for adaptation and mitigation' was held by Dr. Wiebke Förch, GIZ programm advisor at CCARDESA.

The presentation covers

• climate change
• effects of climate change on agriculture
• adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
• actions to combat climate change

Held at the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.