2023-07-19 21:09:18
Participants welcome the initiative of the training
Center-south : a capacity building workshop for actors in the field on integrated approaches to climate-smart agriculture
Manga, (AIB)-The Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (ARAA/ECOWAS) organized from July 17 to 19, 2023, in Manga (Centre-South region) a regional workshop to strengthen the technical capacities of local actors working in the field on integrated approaches to climate-smart agriculture with a view to promoting agricultural practices that are resistant to the adverse effects of climate change.
“This training, which includes a theoretical phase and a field visit, aims to give participants the tools, methods and concrete techniques to be able to implement climate-smart agriculture in the field,” said the West Africa coordinator of the International Center for Agricultural Research (CIAT) / AICCRA, Robert Zougmoré.
According to Mr. Zougmoré, Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is a new concept developed by FAO.
Participant Adissa Congo said she was satisfied with the quality and content of the training modules.
“It aims to achieve three pillars at the same time, which are the sustainable improvement of agricultural productivity, adaptation to climate change and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture,” he said.
The thirty local actors who participate in the training on the theme in Manga are made up of executives and agents from local communities and municipalities, technical services for agriculture, water, livestock and the environment as well as representatives of CSOs, NGOs and Farmer Organizations (POs).
The main trainer, Professor Irénikatché Akponikpé emphasizes that the participants showed great interest in the theoretical and practical phases.
By initiating the session for them, it is also a question of “making them ambassadors of climate-smart agriculture throughout the entire Central-South region”, argued Robert Zougmoré.
During the three days of activities, the theoretical training concerned, among other things, the understanding of the problem of climate change, the identification and proposal of solutions by the actors in connection with AIC and the formulation of related projects, underlined the main trainer, Professor Irénikatché Akponikpé.
As for the practical aspect, it concerned the field visit to allow participants “to see firsthand cases of successful AIC interventions”, he added.
“This workshop was very useful to us because it allowed us to understand the benefits of smart agriculture, whether it is to improve our production or to combat the effects of climate change,” noted participant Adissa Congo from the Guiba communal special delegation.
The Africa coordinator of CIAT/AICCRA, Robert Zougmoré specifies that one of the objectives of the workshop is to make participants ambassadors of AIC.
The Manga workshop is part of the regional project to promote Climate-Smart Agriculture (AIC) in West Africa (AIC-WA) implemented by the Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (ARAA/ECOWAS) in partnership with the Bioversity International Alliance & CIAT through the ”Accelerating the Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa” (AICCRA) Program and the National Program Management Units ( PMU).
This project is financed by BOAD and the Adaptation Fund to around 12 million US dollars or around 7 billion 9.58 million CFA francs and operates in five West African countries which are Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo and Ghana, said the West Africa coordinator of the International Center for Agricultural Research (CIAT) / AICCRA, Robert Zougmoré.
In Burkina Faso, the areas of intervention of the project are mainly the Center-South and the Center-East, specified Mr. Zougmoré.
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