Autumn webinar series // Webinar 2: Indicators for climate adaptation in agriculture

The advancement of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) – that is agriculture that enhances food security, is resilient to climate change and reduces emissions – requires new technical and financial capabilities. This includes the establishment of scientifically credible indicators, which are critical to motivating the necessary transformations in agricultural and food systems.

In this webinar, our presenter, Dr. Bruce Campbell, will discuss the development and implementation of adaptation indicators in the context of CSA projects. To begin with, he will describe the complexities and difficulties associated with the process due to multiple reasons, such as the context-specific nature of agriculture and the dimensional and temporal scales of adaptation, to mention a few. Next, he will provide a set of recommendations to assist practitioners in devising appropriate tools to assess the adaptive capacity and resilience of an agricultural system.

To demonstrate the practical application of the recommendations, the discussion will draw on the CSA Programming and Indicator Tool. Developed in collaboration with several international agencies, the tool is designed to identify the most relevant indicators to be used at different scales of CSA planned intervention(s).

Bruce Campbell is Director of the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), a staff member of International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Senior Advisor to the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA). He works on adaptation to increased climatic variability and progressive climate change, and on low emissions development. CCAFS started in 2010 and has a budget of c. USD 50-60 million per annum; and operates with staff in more than 20 countries. He was previously based in Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Australia. He has published over 150 journal articles and more than a dozen books.

• Welcome and introduction – 5 min
• Presentation – 20 min
• Q&A and discussion – 35min

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