VIDEO
Date: Wednesday April 27thTime: 9:00- 10:30 am (CST, time in Costa Rica)
Agenda
Introduction. Aida Figari. Technical expert of LEDS LAC Secretariat, Libélula Perú.
Leida Mercado. Leader of Mesoamerican Agro-environmental Program, Director of the Division of Research and Development, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE). Presentation: Tool to assess agricultural practices under the concept of climate-smart agriculture.
Rolando Cerda B. Agroforestal Researcher-Professor, CATIE. Presentation: Assessment of climate-smart agriculture practices in the Trifinio (El Salvador- Honduras – Guatemala) and central territory of Nicaragua.
Documents of interest
Information on the international course: Identification, Assessment and Promotion of Climate Smart Agriculture Practices: http://www.catie.ac.cr/attachments/…
Results of the study: “Prioritizing Investment in Sustainable Agriculture Adapted to the Climate ( ASAC )”:http://map.catie.ac.cr/asac/index.p…
About the webinar
Climate-smart Agriculture is an approach to develop the technical, policy and investment conditions to promote a sustainable agricultural development that contributes to food security in the context of climate change. To apply this approach it is important to develop support frameworks to facilitate the identification of best practice portfolios and prioritize investments.
This webinar presented the “Framework for prioritizing investment in climate-smart agriculture” a methodological tool developed by the CCAFS-CIAT and adapted by CATIE in order to apply in two Central American territories where the Mesoamerican Agro- environmental Program (MAP) operates. This tool allows for the identification and evaluation of technically and economically promising practices of climate-smart agriculture, and building portfolios with best practices selected by key players through participatory processes.
The webinar was held in Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the Secretariat of the Platform LEDS LAC: info@ledslac.org
About the speakers
Leida Mercado. Leader of Mesoamerican Agro-environmental Program, Director of the Division of Research and Development, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE).
Agronomical engineer with Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. Before working at CATIE, she served as an advisor in environmental economics for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Her area of expertise is the economic valuation of environmental goods and services and the design and evaluation of public policies. Leida has extensive experience in management development programs and projects and research.
Rolando Cerda B. Agroforestal Researcher-Professor, CATIE.
Specialist in agroforestry systems. He has worked in research and development related to improving productivity of production systems and the welfare of rural families. In these projects he has participated in the design and coordination of field schools with families of small producers, and has coordinated and published several research about ecosystem services (carbon, diversified production, pollination, soil quality). Rolando is also a professor in the Master of Sustainable Agriculture and Agroforestry program at CATIE.