Course Details - Climate Change Adaptation in Food Security and Natural Resource Management
Our climate is changing and our landscapes all over the world are affected. This has severe impacts on the multiple services and benefits landscapes provide for us, such as food and livelihood security, natural resources, carbon storage and fertile soils. Societies consequently need to learn to cope and adapt to the changes predicted; warmer temperatures, drier soils, prolonged droughts, changes in weather extremes and rising sea levels. Addressing these impacts and taking climate action requires strategic thinking and stakeholder collaboration.
What will be covered in the course?
During this course you will get an in-depth understanding of the interlinkages between climate change, food production, food security and the management of natural resources and ecosystems on the scales from individual farmer plots to entire landscapes. We will provide you with practical and participatory tools which allows you to assess who and what in your landscape is vulnerable to climate impacts. This will give you a better insight into possible adaptation strategies as well as which stakeholders to involve. Besides the local level, the course will also focus on the policy level. You will familiarize yourself with policy documents, publications and climate data to acquire the theoretical knowledge and the skills to translate policy documents and research into climate-smart adaptation strategies at the local level.
Case studies and adaptation strategies
Throughout the course, we will be joined by experts from different fields of expertise who will present their case studies and lessons learned. They will share various adaptation strategies for agriculture, agroforestry, agro-pastoralism and fisheries and aquaculture using various types of climate-smart agriculture interventions including agro-ecology, circular and regenerative agriculture.
Despite the course being organised online, The training approach is interactive and builds on the participants’ own experiences and cases. We will work with multiple online tools, includes group work, case studies and individual action planning.
This course is taught in online format:
- Online pre-course assignments to ensure that you have acquired pre-required knowledge, understand the technical requirements of the online learning.
- Interactive plenary sessions where we share content, facilitate exchanging experiences, challenge each other through debates and discussion. During those interactive sessions we work with a number of online tools like Mentimeter, Jam Board and Mural.
- Group work online where you with other participants work jointly to answer specific questions and / or complete an assignment. Using backcasting eachgroup will be guided and challenged to find innovate solutions for the identified problems, which will be presented at the end of the course.
- Individual assignments where you will read literature, watch videos, do exercises and take quizzes. These assignments are an essential part of the learning and most of them count for getting the certificate. They are meant to introduce or deepen knowledge and make the link between theory and your own situation.
- We offer coaching trajectories where we support you one-on-one or in small groups to review your individual learning paths in the course and help with any basic questions you may have.
The course is taught in full online format.
Online platforms: Zoom and TalentLMS
Internet connection is important for the completion of the course. Not sure about the connection in your area? Send training.cdi@wur.nl an e-mail about your situation.
We use Zoom as the virtual classroom for the online part.
Our learning system is TalentLMS. Everything you need — our course programme, assignments, background information are in this system. TalentLMS is easy to operate, can also be accessed by your phone and has an on-and offline functionality. To access TalentLMS you will receive a temporary WUR account.
We organise a technical check-in before the course starts, to test your facilities and get familiar with the tools.
Course planning and certificates
The course workload is approximately 16-20 hours a week (2-2.5 workdays).
The exact programme of your course will be available 2-3 weeks before the start of the course. If you’ve successfully completed your course we send you a digital certificate.