Training Course on Food Security and Agriculture

The Global Food Security Strategy calls for expanding work in improving nutrition and resilience. This course underscores Perk Group’s focus on food security development and incorporates the participant’s vision for food security and agriculture development.  Through this training, participants will be able to address challenges through building a common understanding of their priorities, challenges and key issues in agriculture and food security.  Participants will explore current thinking that can be applied to new and existing strategies which will assist them in designing interventions that achieve greater and more targeted results.

The course will examine adaptation in theory and in practice, through a focus on four sectors that are critically important for climate-resilient development in Africa: Water Security, Agriculture and Food Security, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services.

Specific topics covered in the training will include:

• Food security in agriculture
• Baseline Food Security Assessments
• Impact of climate in agricultural production
• Adaptation to climate change and farm extension services
• Increasing Food Production
• Availability Assessment and Analysis
• Food Security Concepts and Frameworks
• Livelihoods Assessment and Analysis
• Markets Assessment and Analysis
• Nutritional Status Assessment and Analysis
• Agriculture and food security risks
• Agriculture and Food Security Adaptations
• Sector and chain based approach of agricultural and agri-food values