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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*


Dear Subscribers,


Please see herebelow a Call for Papers: 2nd Symposium on Climate Change
Adaptation in Africa Nairobi, Kenya 23rd-24th January 2020.


The Symposium is being organized by the International Climate Change
Information and Research Programme ICCIRP


*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca



*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting);  (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along
with other complementary good agricultural production and land management
practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all continents,
involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems,
perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems,
crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production
systems and rice-based systems. Conservation Tillage, Reduced Tillage and
Minimum Tillage are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its
own* (more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca).

Apologies for any cross-posting.



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*Subject:* Call for Papers: 2nd Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in
Africa Nairobi, Kenya 23rd-24th January 2020



Call for Papers: 2nd Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Nairobi, Kenya 23rd-24th January 2020

It is widely known that Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to
climate change. As the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) produced by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
has shown, climate change is expected to have widespread impacts on African
societies, and  Africans’ interaction with the natural environment. There
are also signs that the impacts of  climate change are already being felt,
not only in terms of increases in temperature, but also
in respect of agriculture (with lower crop yields) and the availability of
water resources, among  others. The links between climate change and the
incidence of diseases -such as malaria- are also  becoming clearer.

The above state of affairs illustrates the need for a better understanding
of how climate change  affects African countries, and for the
identification of processes, methods and tools which may help African
nations to adapt. There is also a perceived need to showcase successful
examples of how to cope with the  social, economic and political problems
posed by climate change in Africa.

It is against this background that the 2nd Symposium on Climate Change
Adaptation in Africa is being organised by the University of Nairobi,
Strathmore University  (Kenya), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK),
the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate
Change Management” of  the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
and the International Climate Change  Information and Research Programme
(ICCIRP) https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iccirp/. It
follows the first, highly successful Symposium held in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, on 21-23 February 2016.

Under the title ”AFRICA 2030- Strenghtening the Capacity of African
Countries to Handle the Challenges of a Changing Environment", the 2nd
Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in Africa will discuss the means via
which African nations may foster  their resilience and their capacity to
adapt, meaning that it will serve the purpose of
showcasing experiences from research, field projects and best practice in
climate change adaptation
in African countries, which may be useful or implemented in other countries
in the continent.

The Symposium will be a truly interdisciplinary event, organised in the
framework of the
2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, and Agenda 2036 of the African
Union,
mobilising African and non-African scholars undertaking research and/or
executing climate
change projects in the African continent.

Consistent with the need for more cross-sectoral interactions among the
various stakeholders working
in the field of climate change adaptation in the African continent, the
aims of the Symposium
are as follows:

I. to provide research institutions, universities, NGOs and enterprises
from Africa and those working in Africa with an opportunity to display and
present their works in the field of climate change adaptation;

II. to foster the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired
in the execution of climate change adaptation projects, especially
successful initiatives and good practice across the African
continent;

III. to discuss methodological approaches and experiences deriving from
case studies and projects, which aim to show how climate change adaptation
may be implemented in practice;

IV. to network the participants and provide a platform so they can explore
possibilities for cooperation.

Last but not least, a further aim of the event will be to document and
disseminate the wealth of experiences available today. To this purpose, the
"African Handbook of Climate Change  Adaptation: learning, sharing and
advancing efforts to promote climate change adaptation in Africa"
will be published, with all accepted papers. This will be a further volume
of the award-winning  book series “Climate Change Management”
https://www.springer.com/series/8740
published by Springer, which since its creation in 2008
has become the world´s leading book series on climate change management.

Further details on the event, including the deadlines for submissions of
abstracts and full papers can be seen at:
https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/events/africa2020.html.

Other events organised by ICCIRP round the world can be seen at:

https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iccirp/events.html




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