Organization Name / Organize By
Versed Professional Services
Organizing/Related Departments
Agriculture, Food Security and Livelihoods
Organization Type
Company
WorkshopCategory
Both (Technical & Non Technical)
WorkshopLevel
All (State/Province/Region, National & International)
Related Industries
Education/Teaching/Training/Development
Agriculture/Agribusiness
Introduction
This training event is intended to enable households, communities and countries build resilience so as to strengthen their ability to manage change by maintaining or transforming their living standards in the face of shocks or stresses without compromising their long-term prospects.
Duration
5 days
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Gain basic skills in livelihoods.
- Improve home-based livelihood opportunities for the rural poor.
- Acquire knowledge on agricultural livelihoods.
- Gain skills on cross-cutting roles in building livelihood resilience.
- Develop and describe how GIS can be used to study climate change and its consequences.
- Apply GIS as a decision support tool for climate change, agriculture and food security.
- Assess spatial data availability and understand the importance of spatial data infrastructure, for data sharing by organizations involved in; climate change, disaster reduction, agriculture and food security.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Basic concepts and definitions
- Rural livelihoods and diversity
- Determinants of livelihoods diversification
- Measuring resilience
- Building livelihoods resilience in agriculture
- Basic use of QGIS Software in climate change adaptation
- Integrating data from different sources into QGIS
- Climate change vulnerability and adaptation indicators
- GIS as decision support tool for climate Change
- Data interpretation for preparedness and future reference
Others Details
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Registration Fees
Available
Registration Fees Details
The training Fee is USD 1,050 exclusive of 16% VAT
Registration Ways
Website
Address/Venue
Prideinn Lantana, Westlands,
Nairobi, Kenya.