Adoption of efficient and climate-smart agriculture practices in African Small Island Developing States

 Introduction

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) in partnership with the Government of Cabo Verde organizes the Launching Workshop of the project of GCP/RAF/506/MUL Adoption of efficient and climate-smart agriculture practices in African Small Island Developing States (SIDS) bringing participants from all six African SIDS (Cabo Verde, Seychelles, Mauritius, Comoros, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tomé and Principe).

What

Project Launching Workshop

When

27-29 September, 2017

Where

Praia, Cabo Verde

Background information

African Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face unique climate change vulnerabilities and development challenges. The FAO regional project titled: “Adoption of efficient and climate-smart agriculture practices in African Small Island Developing States, GCP/RAF/506/MUL, funded by the African Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) aims to build on past, existing, and planned projects on productive and climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices, improve climate change mitigation and adaptation and promote sustainable economic agriculture development knowledge networks across African SIDS.

Project activities will be implemented in the three primary countries of Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau and the Seychelles. However, all six African SIDS (with the addition of Mauritius, Comoros, and Sao Tomé and Principe) will benefit through intraregional exchange and knowledge sharing activities as efforts at the ground level will address the main area of work on the “Promotion of efficient and climate-smart practices, strategies and policies for food production, sustainable value chains and rural development” as part of the Interregional Initiative on SIDS and the Global SAMOA pathway. 

Contact for the Media

Antonio Palazuelos

FAO Cabo Verde Communication

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