Our friends at NEPAD-TerrAfrica secretariat in partnership with the World Bank are delighted to announce their new webinar series to share knowledge on sustainable land and water management, including topics on Agriculture, Climate Change and African Landscapes. These ONLINE webinars will share practical knowledge amongst SLWM practitioners and to facilitate peer-to-peer learning.
Each Webinar will be around 45 minutes to an hour. You will be able to discuss online with presenters and peers from the region through Adobe Connection. The subjects of the first set of webinars will focus on:
Webinar 1: Introduction of new TerrAfrica-NEPAD knowledge platform – How does it facilitate scaling up good practices and experiences in sustainable land and water management in the region?
Webinar 2: Scaling up Conservation Agriculture
Webinar 3: Water Harvesting to cope with Climate Change
Webinar 4: Estimating GHG emissions and Carbon sequestration in land use sectors.
The first webinar “Introduction of new TerrAfrica-NEPAD Knowledge Platform – How does it facilitate scaling up good experience in sustainable land management in the region?” is scheduled on August 6th, at 3:30pm, Central African Time/Johannesburg time, and will showcase TerrAfrica’s newly released SLM Knowledge Platform (http://www.terrafrica.org/sustainable-land-management-platform/) where you can find SLM case studies in the region, upload your own cases to share with others, find new learning opportunities and resources, and ask questions to online experts. It will also inform e-Learning opportunities at the platform.
If you wish to join this webinar, please register (http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/e6oq9tyg59b/event/event_info.html) here.
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