One of the sectors most affected by the effects of climate change agriculture. In rural areas, climate change directly affects producers and exposes households to food insecurity. The basic natural resources of production systems are sensitive and deteriorating.
In order increase the resilience of production systems to the effects of climate change, the Food System Resilience Programme in West Africa (FSRP Togo) is supporting the training of facilitators for the implementation of the Participatory and Integrated Climate Services Agriculture (PICSA) approach in rural and farming communities.
The aim of this training is to help build farmers' resilience to climate variability and change, with a view to improving agricultural productivity.
The training took place in two phases. The first (theoretical) phase involved training facilitators from the Institut Togolais de Rechers Aagricoles (ITRA), the Institut de Conseil et d'Appui Technique (ICAT), the Agence Nationale de la Météorologie (ANAMET) and CONACILSS. The second phase (practical) took place in the field at Farendè in the canton of Lama-tessi, Binah prefecture, and involved more than 90 local producers.
The field work involved drawing up a resource allocation map, a seasonal calendar, calculating the probabilities of agro-climatic characteristics based on historical data, and risk management. It was an interactive and participatory session that enabled the facilitators and farmers to become more familiar with the PICSA approach, with a view to improving resilience to the effects of climate change in Togo.
