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Posted 03 May 2009
SEARCA
INVITES PARTICIPANTS TO INTERNATIONAL TRAINING ON RESPONDING
TO CHANGING CLIMATE
by Mayla H. Viray, Training
Dept., SEARCA
28-April-2009 SEARCA Training News Release
The Southeast
Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research
in Agriculture (SEARCA) with Southeast Asian
Ministers of Education and Organization Regional Training
Center (SEAMEO RETRAC) and Environment and Economy Program
for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) invites participants to its
2nd International Training on Responding to Changing
Climate: Knowledge-based Strategies in Managing Risks
in Agriculture and Environment. This will be
held on 11-15 May 2009 at SEAMEO RETRAC, Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam.
SEARCA will accept up to 25 government planners and
technical staff involved in agriculture and rural development,
in natural resource management, and in disaster and
risk management at the national, regional and local
levels, researchers and practitioners from centers of
excellence engaged in sustainable agriculture, representatives
and staff of regional or national non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) who are actively involved in sustainable agriculture
and community-based disaster and risk management (DRM).
It aims to provide a venue to gain better understanding
and discuss the factors that determine the vulnerability
of the different sectors of society. It will also guide
the participants to prepare an action plan on risk management
that can be applied in their respective contexts.
• The training topics include:
• Concepts and source of risks;
• Framework for risk analysis, hazards and vulnerability;
• Systematic approaches to risk analysis and measures
of risks;
• Managing risks due to climate variability;
• Analysis of risks due to climate variability
and delineation of vulnerable or risky areas;
• Hydrologic frequency analysis/vulnerable areas
to floods and droughts;
• Risks due to extreme weather events;
• Seasonal climate forecasts and crop production;
• Risks in rice crop production due to climate
variability;
• Managing risks in rice production systems in
Southeast Asia;
• Economic impacts and valuation of climate risks;
• Economic valuation techniques and cases;
• Climatic and socio-economic risks in aquaculture;
• Elements of strategic framework plan for managing
risks;
• Community-based disaster and risk management;
• Identification of issues, challenges, constraints,
and solutions;
• Gender dimension of risk management;
• Mobilizing and using local resources in risk
management; and
• Development of local plan for management risks;
Resource persons include: Dr. Felino P. Lansigan and
Dr. Maria Helen F. Dayo of the University of the Philippines
Los Baños as lead experts, with Dr. Pete Bueno
of the International Organization of the Network of
Aquaculture Centers in Asia-Pacific (NACA), Dr. Herminia
A. Francisco of Environment and Economy Program for
Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), Dr. Orapan Nabangchang of EEPSEA,
and Dr. Reinier Wassman of the International Rice Research
Institute.
Participation in this training is on a fee basis at
US$850 per participant. This covers the cost of tuition,
full board and lodging, training materials, field trip
and airport transfers. Participants may also opt to
avail of a live-out training rate of US$600, which covers
only the cost of tuition, lunch and snacks during the
training, training materials and field trip.
Additional information and forms may be further accessed
at: http://www.searca.org/web/training/courses/2009/climate_change2/.
For details/queries, please contact Ms. Mayla H. Viray,
Training Specialist, thru email (mhv@agri.searca.org)
or call (+63-49) 536-2283/5362290 loc 40.
Downloads:
Registration
Form
Programme
Expression
of Interest
bic@searcaweb.org.
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