Through a partnership with the Department of Range Resources Management and National University of Lesotho and ICRAF, which included comprehensive targetted stakeholder engagement to ensure content was tailored to the requirements of the target users, the first comprehensive training manual on climate-smart rangeland management for Lesotho has been produced. The content of the training material is structured to allow for department staff and resource managers in rangelands, both in Lesotho and more broadly across sub-Saharan Africa to both understand and be able to train farmers and rangeland users on climate-smart techniques to manage rangelands. The training manual is structured into four different core modules; introduction to rangelands, understanding climate risk and vulnerability, rangeland management and governance and monitoring rangeland condition. Each of these modules has several chapters with interactive training material and multiple visual aids on climate-smart rangeland management applicable to a wide audience of rangeland users across the sub-continent.
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A report on the curriculum development write shop
Multidimensional Performance of Agroecology: Validation of Results of the TAPE Application in Selected Districts in Ethiopia
The Measuring Agroecology Performance (MAP) is a collaborative project whose focus is evidence generation on the multidimensional performance of agroecology through gathering and analyzing reliable and consistent data at the farm and territorial levels, as well as the agroecological levels of transitions, using the Tool for Agroecological Performance Evaluation (TAPE). ICRAF, through its respective country offices (Benin, Ethiopia, and Kenya) will be in charge of implementing TAPE, including conducting the survey, processing of data and provision of analysis reports and providing technical assistance to relevant national stakeholders. As part of this, CIFOR-ICRAF assessed the agroecological transition of smallholder’s farms in the context of the GIZ ProSoil/ProSiliece project in three Woredas (Hula, Sodo-Zuria, and Walmara) in Ethiopia using the FAO TAPE (Tool for Agroecological Performance Evaluation) methodology. The preliminary findings, while indicating the comparative agroecological transition levels of the ISFM practicing and non-practicing farms, demonstrated the multidimensional performance of agroecology.
Consultancy Report on ‘Training in and support to adjustment, use and maintenance of equipment for seed processing and seed testing at the RTSCs and FRC, incl. assessment of seed testing standards and data management of seed testing and seed stock’
The consultant conducted a training course together with the PATSPO Tree Improvement Officer, Girma Eshete and Duncan Sanders covering the subject ‘Training in and support adjustment, use and maintaining of equipment for seed processing and seed testing at the RTSC and FRC, incl. assessment of seed testing standards and data management of seed testing and seed stock’ at one RTSC and at FRC. Furthermore, a short trip to RTSC Mekele in Tigray was organized to estimate the current situation at the seed center, after the region has been closed for 2 years due to conflicts in the Tigray region.
A Guide to Practical Preparation of Training Courses
This Guide to Practical Preparation of Training Courses is developed by Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolios II (PATSPO II) and is based on a similar guideline prepared for Indonesia Tree Seed Project in 2002.
A Guide to Preparation of Extension Materials
This Guide to Practical Preparation of Training Courses is developed by Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolios II (PATSPO II) and is based on a similar guideline prepared for Indonesia Tree Seed Project in 2002.