GACSA Enabling Environment Action Group has the pleasure to announce the launch of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) webinar series. The webinars will provide the results of the six country case studies assessing the state of CSA implementation in Costa Rica, France, Ireland, Malawi, Tanzania and Vietnam. The case studies include information gathering via stakeholder engagement and dialogue.

The country case studies are the primary focus of the GACSA Enabling Environment Action Group. However due to the cross-cutting nature of the studies all the three GACSA Action Groups are involved in the project.

The webinar will start with a presentation of the case study followed by interactive discussion with participants. It will last about 60-90 minutes, with 15 minutes of presentations and 45 minutes of Q&A.

The webinars are free of charge and held in English. 

Clicke here to view list of GACSA Webinars

Agenda

• The first webinar ''Policies, programs, and strategies addressed in Ireland Climate-Smart Agriculture case study'' will be held on Thursday, 12^th of May 2016 at 16:00 CET  (15:00 Irish time). Presented by Ronan Gleeson, Assistant Agricultural Inspector with the Climate Change and Bio-energy Policy Division in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland. REGISTER HERE

• The second webinar ''Towards adopting CSA practices as effective adaptation measures against severe impacts of climate change in Vietnam'' will be held on Wednesday, 18^th of May 2016 at 15:00 CET (20:00 Vietnam Time). Presented by Dr Tran Dai Nghia, a Director of the Department of natural Resource and Environmental Economics Studies, Vietnam. REGISTER HERE

• The third webinar ''The practice of CSA in Costa Rica'' will be held on Thursday, 26^th of May 2016 at 16:00 CET (9:00 Costa Rica time). Presented by Roberto Azofeifa, Chief of Sustainable Production Department, National Directorate of Agricultural Extension, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Costa Rica, Kelly Witkowski, Agriculture and Climate Change Officer at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and Bastiaan Louman, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y EnseÑanza (CATIE).   REGISTER HERE

• The fourth webinar ''National strategies and local policies in the context of the Agroecology and the related actions undertaken in France'' on Thursday, 2nd of June at 14:00 CET (15:00 France time).  Presented by Bureau du changement climatique et de la biodiversité -Direction générale de la performance économique et environnementale des entreprises (DGPE). REGISTER HERE

• The fifth webinar ''Malawi Climate Smart Agriculture case study Webinar'' will be held on Tuesday, 7^th of June at 14:00 CET (15:00 Malawi time). Presented by Wilfred Kadewa PhD, Lecturer at the Lilongwe University of agriculture and Natural Resources, specializing on Environmental Resources Management under the Faculty of Natural Resources. REGISTER HERE

• The sixth webinar '''Tanzania Climate Smart Agriculture case study Webinar'' will be held on Wednesday, 8^th of June at 16:00 GMT+3. Presented by Shakwaanande Natai, the Head of Environment Management Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MALF).

Technical information

Platform: The webinars will be hosted on the WebEx platform. Presenters will need an internet connection, camera and a microphone on their computers. We will offer a dry run test of the technology before the webinars take place. Up to 1000 people will be able to participate.

Interactivity: Participants will be able to enter questions via the chat, where the moderator will collect them. 

Registration: In the run up to the event, participants will register through a registration link that will be provided and mentioned in the invites.

The webinars are facilitated by the World Bank.