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Discover climate solutions to help with family food, nutrition and income during a time of global warming.
Depleted soils, unreliable access to water, outmoded agricultural practices and a lack of coping strategies for adapting to a changing climate are leading to reduced agricultural productivity, income generation, and food security for smallholder farmers worldwide.
An 8 week, self-paced training program. where you will each continue the development of your adaptation to your climate change project. Each one of the assignments will be a concrete step in preparing your project for a donor presentation. By the end of the 8 weeks, you will have conducted surveys with the community to better understand the challenges—and will have researched solution-oriented activities to solve them. You will then design and lead a capacity building workshop on those activities for the community members.
In OL 333 students and their community members will first develop a participatory mapping of crop systems, and soil and water resources, and then consult with an expert in soil, water and agriculture to develop a participatory training process for developing a Climate Smart Agricultural Program specific to their local context.
1. The course will lead you through the continued development of your project by developing donor presentation documents for project funding.
2. The course includes an overview of climate smart agricultural practices complete with downloadable manuals and field guides for each technique.
1. This course is perfect for nonprofit and development professionals working in areas such as food security, watershed management, agriculture, the environment, sustainable development, adaptation, or DRR—and who want to develop practitioner-level skills. If you are a grant writer, nonprofit staff member, consultant, project manager—or an executive director—you will develop real skills mastery.
2. This course is just as relevant to a person considering a career transition into the nonprofit world and wanting to develop employable skills.
8 Weeks: Work with farmers to solve climate challenges
Week 1. Surveys and interviews to collect traditional knowledge on agriculture.
Week 2. Participatory mapping of cropping systems, and soil and water resources.
Week 3. Survey of Solution-Oriented Adaptation Techniques.
Week 4. Mulching, contours, soil bunds, trees & hedgerows.
Week 5. Buffering against extended dry spells.
Week 6. Evaluate findings and select appropriate, improved agricultural practices.
Week 7. Workshop planning for appropriate, improved agricultural practices.
Week 8. Facilitate a capacity building workshop at the demonstration plots.
“Hi Tim, Please find attached Assignment 5 for OL 333.
I really enjoyed this assignment, I thought that the activities made sense—and the training program I have developed is looking great (I even feel like I want to take this training program myself!).
I was actually looking forward to taking this course and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Great course! Anne Desrochers.
Work with farmers to solve climate challenges. Take this 8 week course to get farm families growing healthy, nutritious food again!
Real human help: The training program will be led by Tim Magee, CSDi’s Executive Director, who has over 40 years experience in urban agriculture. Mr. Magee is the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation, A Solar Greenhouse Guide to Food Production, and is a Co-Founder of Seattle Tilth: An Urban Agricultural Center. Mr. Magee studied international agriculture at University.
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This course has a prerequisite: OL 102 Sustainable Development Projects, or OL 342 Climate Change Adaptation, or OL 202 Designing and Funding Non Profit Programs. Why are there prerequisites?
$100.00
Take this course with a live teacher. You will have complete access to the download course resources and lessons described below. Certificate: Turn in the 6 assignments and you will receive a PDF Certificate. Your course teacher will offer professional comments and encouragement for your assignments.
Job-focused content includes:
8 PDF Detailed Assignments
8 PDF In-depth Discussions
8 MS Word Completed Assignment Templates for you to personalize to be your own assignment for submittal.
Over 50 Word, Excel and PDF resources to download that contain learning guides, studies—and project templates for you to edit and personalize.
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