Climate Smart Agriculture Policy
Category: Executive
Document Type: Policy
Role: Main
Zimbabwe Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Education 2017
The Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Agriculture Education in Zimbabwe, published in 2017 by the Climate Technology Centre & Network, serves as a foundational document for integrating climate-smart agriculture (CSA) principles into agricultural education and practice in Zimbabwe. The manual aims to guide farmers and agricultural advisers towards adopting practices resilient to a changing climate. It covers essential 'enabling environments' including institutional arrangements and policy engagement for mainstreaming CSA into national policies and programmes, the role of various institutions (government, education, civil society) in scaling up CSA, and the application of CSA within Zimbabwe. It also details the importance of climate information services, weather index-based insurance as a risk management strategy, and considerations for gender and social inclusion in CSA adoption. Furthermore, the manual introduces 'system approaches' such as the landscape approach for sustainable management. While the manual itself is a guide for education and policy development rather than a regulation, it discusses necessary changes to the institutional framework and specific sectoral agricultural practices, forming the basis for subsequent policy development, such as the Climate Smart Agriculture Policy mentioned in the human summary. It does not specify deadlines or compliance dates, focusing instead on providing the educational and conceptual framework for CSA implementation.
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Agriculture Education in Zimbabwe Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Agriculture Education in Zimbabwe Adam Smith International Climate Technology Centre & Network UN City, Marmorvej 51 DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark +45 4533 5372 www.ctc-n.org ctcn@unep.org ISBN 978-87-93458-21-5 Design: Magnum Custom Publishing New Delhi, India info@magnumbooks.org A digital copy of this report can be downloaded from http://www.ctc-n.org/ All rights reserved © This document may be cited as: Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Zimbabwe, Climate Technology Centre and Network, Denmark, 2017 Disclaimer: The suggestions and conclusions in this publication are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to the Climate Technology Centre & Network and the UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP) who produced this publication. Contents List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes vii Abbreviations ix Foreword by the Government of Zimbabwe xiii Foreword by CTCN xiv Acknowledgements xv Authors of the Climate-smart Agriculture Manual xvi Introduction 1 Section I. Enabling environments 7 1. Institutional arrangements and policy engagement 8 1.1 Introduction 9 1.2 Mainstreaming CSA into national policies and programmes 10 1.3 Opportunities for mainstreaming CSA in policies and programmes of Zimbabwe 10 1.4 Role of institutions in scaling up CSA 11 1.5 Role of higher and tertiary education institutions and civil-society organisations in promoting CSA 12 1.6 Application of CSA in Zimbabwe 14 1.7 Recommendations 15 1.8 Conclusions 15
Tags: Adaptation, Adaptation Planning, Agriculture, Climate Change, Education, Food Security, Gender, Governance, Guidance, Institutions / Administrative Arrangements, Insurance, Land Use, Mitigation, Policy, Redd+ And Lulucf, Research
Sector: Agriculture