The UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency offers some really interesting looking free courses on food security, including one new one on Climate Change:
Climate Change and Food Security – New E-learning Course from FAO
This free course helps us understand how climate change
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency offers some really interesting looking free courses on food security, including one new one on Climate Change:
Climate Change and Food Security – New E-learning Course from FAO
This free course helps us understand how climate change is affecting agriculture and our food security – and what can be done.
How does climate change affect agriculture and food security? What can be done to minimize its negative impacts? These are just some of the questions answered in this new course from FAO available for free online at: www.foodsec.org/dl or on CD-Rom by writing to email@example.com
Starting with an overview of the concept of climate change, the course then looks at its impact on food security. After examining strategies for mitigating or adapting to the effects of climate change, it suggests concrete ways to make sure agriculture is “climate smart”.
The course is aimed at policy makers and people working in development agencies, who need to better understand how climate change affects agriculture and food systems, and what concrete actions can be taken. The course also includes face to face training materials, such as exercises, trainer’s notes, and slides, which can be adapted to your training needs.
Concrete actions are needed to ensure food security
The effects of climate change will hit vulnerable people the hardest. However, policy makers and individ