INTRODUCTION
Families with secure livelihoods engage in a variety of community-based endeavors that give them access to food, shelter, and other necessities for survival. This guarantees that the society will always have enough resources to fall back on.
Enhancing the variety and security of the resources, expertise, and technologies accessible to agricultural communities can help to promote livelihood security. Therefore, the goal of this training session is to empower households, communities, and nations to increase their capacity for managing change by maintaining or improving their standard of living in the face of shocks or strains without jeopardizing their long-term prospects.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The course's graduates will be able to:
- Acquire foundational skills for a living.
- Expand rural poor people's chances for home-based employment.
- Learn about agricultural livelihoods.
- Develop your cross-cutting role-playing abilities to strengthen livelihood resilience.
- Outline the benefits of using GIS to research climate change and its effects.
- Use GIS as a decision-support tool for agriculture, food security, and climate change.
- Evaluate the availability of spatial data and comprehend the significance of spatial data infrastructure for data sharing by organizations engaged in combating climate change, preventing disasters, promoting agriculture, and ensuring food security.
DURATION
5 days
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is intended for various Experts in Agriculture; Extension Officers, Agricultural officials and Decision makers working with local people, in governments, donor organization, Non-profit oriented organizations for Agriculture Development programmes.
COURSE CONTENT
Introduction to livelihoods
- Basic concepts and definitions
- Key factors impacting on livelihoods in developing countries
- Framework for livelihood analysis
- Rural livelihoods and diversity
- Determinants of livelihoods diversification
- Measuring resilience
- Resilience indicators
Agricultural Livelihoods
- Constraints to sustainable agricultural development
- Threats to food and nutrition security
- Disaster Risk Reduction for food and nutrition security
- Building livelihoods resilience in agriculture
- Effects of food security threats and constraints to agrarian change and rural development
Cross-cutting roles in building livelihood resilience
- Capacity development role #BBD0E0 »