Central Asia Climate Smart Agriculture Workshop
Bishkek, Kyrgystan
From: 12.07.2016 to: 14.07.2016
The Central Asia Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Workshop addresses the interlinked challenges of food security, climate change, disaster risk reduction and energy through an integrated climate smart agriculture approach.
CSA, though relatively new, is attracting increasing interest and attention in various parts of the world including in Central Asia. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other partners have a number of on-going and forthcoming projects, which deal with different aspects of the CSA approach. Given the importance of conceiving and planning well integrated interventions capturing synergies and avoiding trade-offs, the workshop is intended to bring together different national and regional stakeholders to raise the understanding and capacity to undertake CSA approaches as well as determine collective priority interventions at national and regional levels and how these will relate to ongoing and new projects.
In addition participants will be introduced to relevant international processes, such as the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA), and how they can interact and be involved in its various components (in particular the action groups). Conference participants will identify key gaps and barriers for achieving identified priority areas and prioritise the needed knowledge, tools and technical support and interventions, which should be addressed through collective efforts.
The conference in particular will support and feed into the implementation of a number of new projects including the Second Phase of the Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management (CACILM-II) and FAO’s Economics and Policy Innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture (EPIC) programme.
The countries covered by the workshop are
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan
The conference is organized by
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC)
• International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
• Central Asia and the Caucasus Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (CACAARI)
• Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA)
• Central European University (CEU)
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