BUILDING
African
capacities on
climate change
An ambitious project to build African capacities on
climate change
A systems approach to agriculture and climate
change for African leaders
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A decision support tool for Climate-Smart
Agriculture policy and practices
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Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and the NGO Climate
Interactive have joined forces to build African capacity on
climate change. Through out Africa, leaders will gain
knowledge and improve their effectiveness by using the new
climate-smart agriculture decision-support tool. This
computer simulation tool frames the pressing agricultural
issues facing African countries today with a goal of more
robust long-term development.
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An ambitious project to build
African capacities on climate
change
The project’s main objectives are :
> Strengthening African leaders’ abilities to face climate
change and helping them prepare to participate in
climate negotiations through World Climate Simulation
train-the-trainer events across Africa.
> Developing a decision-making tool integrating
Climate-Smart Agriculture in response to climate
change and defining Africa’s most pressing issues.
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7,700
World Climate simulations
reached more than
Africans in government,
academias and civil society
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A systems approach to
agriculture and climate
change for African leaders
The project aims to reach more than 100,000 decisions
makers across Africa representing African leaders
including policy-makers, academics, scientists, specialized
journalists and countless highly committed young leaders.
World Climate Simulation Train-the-Trainer events have
been held across Africa to increase awareness about
climate change and to provide them with a decision-making
tool, C-ROADS: the award-winning computer simulator
that helps people understand the long-term climate
impacts of actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Since the project was launched in 2016, 16 train-the-trainer
workshops have been held in Morocco, Ethiopia, Ghana,
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, and Ivory Coast.
Climate-Smart Agriculture
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
defines Climate-Smart Agriculture by three basic principles :
> Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and
incomes ;
> Adapting and building resilience to climate change ;
> Reducing and/or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.
The simultaneous application of all three principles is what
makes Climate-Smart Agriculture tower over all other
approaches.
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Project goal :
100,000
Reach
decision makers across Africa
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A decision support tool for
Climate-Smart Agriculture
policy and practices
The Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and the NGO
Climate Interactive chose to apply system dynamics principles
to the analysis and understanding of Climate-Smart
Agriculture.
This approach is of major importance for Africa and the world
as the agricultural sector is now responsible for roughly 17%
of all greenhouse gas emissions around the world. Moreover,
experts are advocating the efficient use of arable land as a
way of reducing atmospheric concentrations of carbon
dioxide. Finally, assistance must urgently be provided to
farmers facing the new challenges created by climate change.
Workshops and round tables were held in Morocco, Ghana,
Kenya, Ethiopia and Ivory Coast. These events benefitted
1,500 participants and helped establish an agriculture issues
database in these areas and the technologies needed
to overcome these problems.
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17%
Roughly
of the world’s greenhouse gas
emissions originate from the
agricultural sector
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Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Lot 660, Hay Moulay Rachid, Benguerir, Morocco