MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
The session is quite long if you want to discuss all events in one go it will
take about 3-4 hours therefore we suggest you divide the events into
sessions.
The complete slideshow can be found in Appendix 4
Slide 1
Discuss the aim of the session and its importance
Aim
• To share with extension staff analysed climate information for selected
stations
Slid•e 2Presently it is clear that analysed information is not available to
extension staff
Discuss the importance of the session
• Important to know the characteristics of the growing season in your
area
• To be able to give relevant and climate smart extension advice to
farmers
• Climate smart agriculture neatly combines 2 objectives of helping to
prevent climate change whilst helping farmers adapt to inevitable
change
• However it is difficult to predict with precision the quality of the season
ahead, but we can make predictions based on long time historical
climatic data.
Before going into the slide it is important to get a feeling of climate information
extension staff thinks farmers would want to know for their area. It is important at
this stage to discuss a little bit about events and stress that only events can be
analysed.
A Training Manual on Use of Climate Information and Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment for
Agricultural Extension Staff in Zimbabwe
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