FAO

The e-learning tool 'Planning for Community Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change' supports training on community-based climate change adaptation in agriculture. The tool links research-based knowledge on climate change impacts with examples and experiences on CBA drawn from FAO field projects and a range of country-specific case studies. The intended outcoume of the tool is to assist all actors, who face the challenge of initiating and facilitating adaptation processes at community level.

This course explains the concepts of food and nutrition, malnutrition, food security and livelihoods. Understanding these concepts is important to assess the nutrition situation, design and implement programmes, investments and policies that address nutrition problems (also called “nutrition-sensitive”), and evaluate the nutritional outcomes of programmes, investments and policies

You will learn about

• Food and Nutrition related concepts and definitions
• Nutrient requirements and balanced diet
• Different forms of malnutrition
• Causes of malnutrition
• Food Security and Livelihoods

This course covers the techniques for spatial data acquisition, spatial analysis, modelling, integration of various data sources and sharing spatial information (international standards and interoperability, spatial data infrastructure).

You will learn about

• How spatial data can help improve the quality and scope of activities in organizational processes
• Methods to obtain spatial data and systems for producing spatial information
• Interoperability and standards for sharing spatial data
• Technology behind spatial data infrastructure
• Techniques to disseminate spatial data

Degradation of forests and landscapes impacts the global climate, and also the food security and livelihoods of communities. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is a process which brings stakeholders together to create healthy, resilient and productive landscapes and meet national, regional and global commitments.​ This course has been developed to introduce the key concepts and process of forest and landscape restoration.

You will learn about:

• The importance of FLR and its key concepts​
• The benefits of FLR and how it helps countries to achieve their national, regional and global commitments​
• The three key steps of the FLR process
• The importance of engaging stakeholders in all steps of FLR and negotiating between potentially conflicting objectives.
• The various considerations when implementing, managing and monitoring FLR​
• Barriers and success factors for FLR

In recent decades, the occurrence of climate- and weather-related disasters has increased, and globally, a vast number of agricultural livelihoods are compromised each year, with far-reaching effects on food security and ecosystems. This course is part of a series which aim to introduce the FAO Damage and Loss (D&L) methodology, developed by FAO to support countries to generate precise and holistic data for the agricultural sector. This can be used for national Disaster Risk Reduction/Management, resilience and to help monitor the achievement of global targets.

You will learn about:

• The concept of disaster impact assessment
• How agriculture is affected by a growing number of disasters, and the significant economic losses absorbed by the sector
• The importance of collecting regular and reliable data on disaster impacts
• How the D&L methodology contributes to monitoring the Sendai Framework, Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement
• How the D&L methodology can complement other post-disaster needs assessment methods and processes

The course is aimed at providing basic knowledge about the role and functions of the Food Security Cluster, both at global and national level. It is also aimed at building basic Cluster Coordination competencies and providing tools for efficient Food Security Cluster Coordination.

You will learn about

• Structure and objectives of the humanitarian response architecture
• Principles, advantages and challenges of the cluster approach
• Structure and objectives of the Food Security Cluster at global and country level
• Food Security Cluster’s role and core functions and key activities related to each
• Main responsibilities and tasks of a Food Security Cluster Coordinator

Acting early before a disaster has actually happened or reached its peak is critical: it can save lives and protect livelihoods from the immediate shocks, as well as protecting long-term development gains by increasing the resilience of local communities over time.

Using a series of examples and case studies from different countries and contexts, this course provides guidance to set-up an anticipatory action system, i.e. a set of provisions to link early warning signals to anticipatory action options and implementation arrangements. 

The course focuses on anticipatory action in the context of food security and agriculture.

You will learn about

• Anticipatory action and its role within the risk management system
• Ranking disaster risks in a given location to determine the priorities for anticipatory action
• Assessing available early warning information
• Setting-up an early warning system
• Using a crisis timeline to identify windows of opportunities for anticipatory action
• Prioritizing anticipatory actions and preparing an Anticipatory Action Plan
• Analysing the impact of anticipatory action projects

This series of courses analyses climate change impacts on agriculture, food security and food systems and provides an overview of the main climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in agriculture. It also introduces the Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) approach and describes the 5-step process to implement it. The series comprises the following 7 courses:

• Introduction to climate-smart agriculture
• Climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture
• Climate-smart forestry
• Climate-smart livestock production
• Climate-smart soil and land management
• Climate-smart crop production
• Water management for climate-smart agriculture

You will learn about

• Climate change and its causes
• Climate change impacts on agriculture, food security and food systems
• The concept of climate change adaptation and mitigation and the related strategies that could be put in place in agriculture
• The CSA approach and the 5-step process to implement it
• Management practices for climate-smart agriculture across productive systems

This series of courses analyses climate change impacts on agriculture, food security and food systems and provides an overview of the main climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in agriculture. It also introduces the Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) approach and describes the 5-step process to implement it. The series comprises the following 7 courses:

• Introduction to climate-smart agriculture
• Climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture
• Climate-smart forestry
• Climate-smart livestock production
• Climate-smart soil and land management
• Climate-smart crop production
• Water management for climate-smart agriculture

You will learn about

• Climate change and its causes
• Climate change impacts on agriculture, food security and food systems
• The concept of climate change adaptation and mitigation and the related strategies that could be put in place in agriculture
• The CSA approach and the 5-step process to implement it
• Management practices for climate-smart agriculture across productive systems

This course provides an overview of adaptation and mitigation strategies that can be implemented in response to climate change impacts on the fisheries and aquaculture sector.

You will learn about

• General facts on the fisheries and aquaculture sector 
• Impacts of climate change on the sector and specific elements on marine fisheries, inland fisheries and aquaculture 
• Main responses to climate change including: Adaptation measures and their practical application through case studies; and mitigation measures to reduce the sector’s carbon footprint