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The SmartAG Partner: CCAFS East Africa Quarterly Newsletter, July - September 2017

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  • Africa
  • World
  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
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CCAFS East Africa. 2018. The SmartAG Partner: CCAFS East Africa Quarterly Newsletter, July - September 2017. Wageningen, The Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
The SmartAG Partner: CCAFS East Africa Quarterly Newsletter, July - September 2017

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Abstract

We are pleased to share with you our SmartAg Partner newsletter, highlighting policy
engagement and ongoing research in the third quarter of 2017.
In July, we hosted an online discussion forum on ‘Engaging African Youth in Agribusiness in a
Changing Climate,’ a platform that created space to discuss critical issues facing African youths.
The online discussion —which attracted 79 comments — ran for one month to commemorate
World Youth Skills Day (15 July) and International Youth Day (12 August) and culminated in a webinar attended by 80 participants
on 30 August.
Climate services play a key role in supporting the resilience of communities. The Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project
organized a four-day training of trainers on Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) in Huye district. This
was followed by a field training process allowed participants to work with smallholder farmers on the PICSA process. Additionally,
to empower decision-makers on climate services, IGAD Climate Prediction & Applications Centre (ICPAC) organized a workshop
on ‘ Existing and New Tools for Drought Monitoring and Forecasting in Eastern Africa’.
A recently published journal on ‘Adoption and Dissemination Pathways for Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies and Practices
for Climate-Resilient Livelihoods in Lushoto, Northeast Tanzania’ assesses farmer adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices
and innovation after being exposed to Farms of the Future Approach (FotF).

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