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

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow a webinar invitation for the webinar on *Climate
Resilient Agriculture Success Stories – Making a Case for Scale Up,* 28
November 2019,15:00 SAST.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

*Global CA-CoP*

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture



*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/or 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:
http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture).

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From: THIERFELDER, Christian Lutz (CIMMYT-Zimbabwe) <[log in to unmask]
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 07:43
Subject: FW: WEBINAR INVITATION:Climate Resilient Agriculture Success
Stories – Making a Case for Scale Up| 28 November 2019 |15:00 SAST
To: Bossuet, Jerome (CIMMYT) <[log in to unmask]>, Renard, Genevieve
(CIMMYT) <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: CAIRNS, Jill Elizabeth (CIMMYT-Zimbabwe) <[log in to unmask]>, Ruth
Verhey <[log in to unmask]>






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The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network
(FANRPAN) in partnership with the (GIZ) GmbH, SADC Programme on Adaptation
to Climate Change in Rural Areas in Southern Africa (ACCRA), the International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), the Centre for Coordination of
Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa (CCARDESA) and the
GCRF- FRICAP Programme is pleased to invite you to a knowledge-sharing
webinar:



*Climate Resilient Agriculture Success Stories – *

*Making a Case for Scale Up *

Date: 28 November 2019

Time: 15:00 SAST



*Register for online participation **Here*
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O-iUcjJZREOMUfSX7hOQvA>







*  Speaker*

[image: A person wearing a suit and tie smiling at the camera Description
automatically generated]*Dr Christian Thierfelder, **Principal** Cropping
Systems Agronomist (CIMMYT)*

Since 2009, Christian Thierfelder has led CIMMYT’ <https://www.cimmyt.org/>s
conservation agriculture (CA) systems research in Southern Africa which has
been running since 2004 with the aim to adapt CA systems to the needs and
environments of smallholder farmers. He currently focuses on fine-tuning CA
systems to different agro-ecologies and researching farmers’ adoption of
new technologies, green manure cover crops and grain legumes integration
into maize-based farming systems, climate-smart agriculture, GxExM and
agro-ecological management of the Fall armyworm.



Follow on Twitter *@BusyBeeChris *







*Discussant*



*Dr. Manyewu Mutamba, Senior Programme Officer at AUDA-NEPAD, leading the
Climate Resilience Programme *

Dr Mutamba has been involved in the design, implementation and evaluation
of regional and continental climate resilience programmes across
sub-Saharan Africa and has a detailed understanding of climate risks facing
natural and agro-ecosystems in many African countries. For the past 20
years he has managed multi-country programmes in East and Southern Africa
on resilience building, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and
climate smart agriculture practices such as Conservation Agriculture (CA),
regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, water smart irrigation, renewable
energy and holistic rangeland management.



Follow on Twitter *@NEPAD_Agency*







*Description of the webinar*

Southern Africa is likely to be significantly impacted by future climate
change, with the latest projections for the region indicating that
temperatures are likely to increase and more likely we will get: erratic
rainfalls, delayed onset of season, shorter seasons, increase in dry
spells. Africa agriculture must undergo significant transformation to meet
the multiple challenges of climate change, manifesting in food insecurity,
poverty and malnutrition. Fundamental to tackling these challenges is the
need to make agriculture more adaptive and climate smart. This entails
scaling up proven climate resilient agriculture practices, technologies,
strategies and policies to accelerate the transformation of Africa’s
agriculture into a more sustainable and profitable sector. There is need to
support climate-resilient development in the region by developing a
comprehensive prospectus of successful cases ready for scale-up to attract
national, regional and international investors.



An example of a CSA project ready for up-scaling is the maize value chain
development that the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre
(CIMMYT) and the Zambian Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) have been
implementing with support from the SADC/GIZ’s ‘Adaptation to Climate Change
in Rural Areas of Southern Africa’ (ACCRA) programme, implemented with the
Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development in
Southern Africa (CCARDESA) and funded by the German Federal Ministry for
Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ). The CIMMYT-led intervention
seeks to out-scale climate-smart technologies to smallholder farmers in
Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, with the goal of increasing their
productivity, food security and climate resilience in maize-based farming
systems.





The webinar will present a successful case study of resilience in the maize
value chain which can be out scaled to other countries in the SADC region.









We would welcome questions submitted in advance. Submit all questions to:

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Follow the proceedings of the webinar on social media:



@fanrpan  @gcrfafricap   #AFRICAP #investinclimate #investincsa









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