In January 2022 FAO and IAAS (International Association of Students in Agricultural and Related Sciences), in collaboration with YPARD (Young Professionals for Agricultural Development) launched the Youth for Green and Climate-Resilient Agriculture Programme (YCRA) to support and promote youth-led projects. The initiative aims to contibute to capacity development, to give visibility to youth active in the agriculture sectors and to support the transfer of skills between generations.

Through a competitive process, youth-led initiatives aligned with green and climate-resilient agriculture are selected to receive training and mentoring to support their development. The most promising candidates are invited to participate in global events such as the International Conference for Youth in Agriculture (ICYA) and the United Nations Climate Change Conference.  

Useful links: 

YCRA webinar series: Sprouting change: capacity-building for youth in green and climate-resilient agriculture

https://www.iaasworld.org/contentHub/44

https://www.fao.org/climate-change/news/detail/en/c/1470051/ 

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@FAOClimate and @IAAS_World on Twitter 

@iaas.world on instagram  

IAAS on Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iaas/about/ 

FAO and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are co-leading a 5-year programme (2020-2025) called Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans (SCALA), funded by the German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) through its International Climate Initiative (IKI).

SCALA responds to the urgent need for increased action to cope with climate change impacts in the agriculture and land use sectors. The 20 million euro programme will support at least twelve countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build adaptive capacity and to implement low emission priorities.

Country support includes strengthening policies, adopting innovative approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation, removing barriers related to information gaps, governance, finance, gender mainstreaming and integrated monitoring and reporting. To achieve this shift, the programme will engage the private sector and key national institutions.

SCALA supports countries to develop the capacity to own and lead the process to meet targets set out in their National Adaptation Plans and nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement, and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The SCALA initiative builds on another FAO-UNDP led programme, Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (2015-2020) which is currently phasing out.

Partner countries:

Argentina
Cambodia
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cote d’Ivoire
Egypt
Ethiopia
Mongolia
Nepal
Senegal
Thailand
Uganda 

More information: 

Contacts: [email protected]

In order to safeguard and support the world’s agri-cultural heritage systems, FAO started an initiative for the identification and the dynamic conservation of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage systems (GIAHS) in 2002. These traditional agricultural systems represent models of sustainable agricultural production. 4 GIAHS sites were featured in FAO’s Climate-Smart Agriculture sourcebook: Rice-fish agriculture systems in China; Sustainable practices of nomadic pastoralists in Iran,Peruvian Andes and Kuttanad below-sea-level farming system. Find out more via FAO's GIAHS website.