Description:
"The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is implementing a project
entitled “Sustainable Cropland and forest management in priority agro-ecosystems of Myanmar
(SLM-GEF)” in coordination with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental
Conservation (MoNREC) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MoALI)
with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The project aims to facilitate and strengthen sustainable land management (SLM), sustainable
forest management (SFM), and climate-smart agriculture (CSA). The project facilitates the
adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) policies and practices that will help to sustainably
increase productivity, enhance resilience (adaptation), reduce/remove GHGs (mitigation) and
enhance achievement of national food security and development goals.
The project intends to establish a national CSA/SLM training program mainstreaming
CSA/SLM in the agriculture related training conducted by Department of Agriculture (DoA),
State Agricultural Institutes (SAI), Department of Agriculture Research (DAR) and Yezin
Agricultural University (YAU). The project will work with DoA, SAIs, DAR and YAU to
integrate CSA within their research, training and development programs. The training program
will vary with the need and nature of the institutions, for example;(1) one month training together
with other subjects for the in-service or refresher course at Central Agriculture Research and
Training Centre (CARTC), (2) one week intensive training of trainers (ToT) aiming for the
senior extension agents of DoA, DAR and YAU, (3) CSA component integrated into the course
for diploma students at SAIs, and (4) CSA component integrated into the course for bachelor
and master's level at YAU.
AVSI Foundation has been contracted to develop the Climate Smart Agriculture Curriculum and
Handbook to be introduced and incorporated as a course (subject) into the existing education
systems at different levels as mentioned above. This document will serve as the main
resource/reference book for professors/lecturers/teachers from the different Departments at
YAU to include the related topics on CSA into their courses for teaching the students..."
Source/publisher:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Date of Publication:
2019-01-01
Date of entry:
2019-06-17
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar
Language:
English
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Format:
pdf
Size:
517.13 KB
Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good