Elaboration of capacity building in Agroecology

In Madagascar as in many other countries, Agriculture has to face big challenges regarding soil degradation, climate change, food security, coupled with high rate of population growth. There is a real need to better produce and to change the paradigm of agricultural practices and training. Conservation agriculture, based on ecosystem services provided by biodiversity, could be considered as an ecological modernization of agricultural systems. It corresponds to a paradigm shift due to the complexity in designing and implementing it. For these reasons, top level staff, technicians and farmers need to be trained in the innovative techniques to comply with this change of paradigm. In the early 2000 many projects were starting the dissemination of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and Conservation Agriculture (CA) in many parts of Madagascar. Monitoring and evaluation of these projects revealed the lack of skillful technicians and general knowledge on CA and CSA. The symposium on CA held in 2010 on behalf of GSDM confirmed this lack of CA based training courses. From 2011, GSDM started to elaborate a reference manual for the training on CSA and CA intended for trainees with a good background in agronomy and extension. The main objective is to have a bulk of technicians holding a specialized diploma in CSA and CA. The elaboration of this reference training manual was a participative approach involving government institutions and private sectors involved in agricultural training. The method implemented by GSDM took in account the agricultural practices, the different jobs opportunities and the needed skills by the stakeholders of rural development. The referential document was approved by the rural development actors and governmental agencies involved in agricultural training. This diploma will be presented for accreditation at the appropriate Ministries. In terms of schedule, the training of trainers will be completed early 2015 and the training itself will start in 2015.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Tatin, Gilles, Rakotondramanana, Enjalric, Frank, Raharison, Tahina, Rasolomanjaka, Joachin
Format:	conference_item biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	s.n.
Subjects:	F08 - Systèmes et modes de culture, A01 - Agriculture - Considérations générales, C10 - Enseignement,
Online Access:	http://agritrop.cirad.fr/575449/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/575449/1/document_575449.pdf
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