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The Rapid Loss Appraisal Tool for Agricultural Value Chains (RLAT) was developed in Ghana in 2015 with the sup-port of the GIZ Sector Project "Sustainable Agriculture" (NAREN) and the GIZ program for Market Orientated Ag-riculture (MOFA/Ghana). Its main objective is to identify critical loss points in smallholder agricultural value chains by using a quick and participatory methodology.

The tool was further tested and adapted for socio-economic and agricultural patterns in Southern Africa. The SADC Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA), sup-ported by the two German funded projects NAREN and ACCRA, launched a regional call for proposals for the implementation of RLAT in Southern Africa (Annex A). Seven institutions from five different countries, namely South Africa, eSwatini, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe applied and the South African Agricultural Research Coun-cil/Grain Crops Institute in Potchefstroom (ARC) was awarded for the piloting of RLAT. The Agricultural Research Council organized the training in Potchefstroom, which was attended by participants from Tanzania and Zimba-bwe whose applications to facilitate the processwere scored 2nd and 3rd best respectively, and was subsequently followed with a field appraisal in the Eastern Cape Province.

The main objectives of the SADC/South Africa pilot mission were

1. To train potential users from SADC member states in the application of RLAT in the maize value chain.

2. To adapt and pilot RLAT methodology in South Africa.

Final report of the 'Climate Finance and Proposal Writing Training' which took place in December 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana.

Final report of the Training  'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture in the SADC Region' which took place in June 2018 in Réduit, Mauritius.

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation 'Climate-smart agriculture and gender' by Dr Wiebke Förch, GIZ programme advisor for ACCRA/CCARDESA.

Contains information on

• Gender and rural development and agriculture
• Gender and CSA
• Gender responsive programming
• Conclusions

Prepared for the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Final presentation of group work on adaptation options for 'Tomato'.

Group work and presentation developed during the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Final presentation of group work on adaptation options on 'Livestock'.

Group work and presentation developed during the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Final presentation of group work on adaptation options on 'Litchi Orchard Management'.

Group work and presentation developed during the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation 'Regional Knowledge Management for CCAA/CSA' by Dr. Wiebke Förch, GIZ ACCRA for CCARDESA.

The presentations shows

• CCARDESA as a regional knowledge broker
• CCARDESA Information, Communication and Knowledge Management System (ICKM)
• CCARDESA Southern African Agricultural Information and Knowledge System (SAAIKS)

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation 'Carbon footprint of Agriculture' by Prof. B. Lalljee, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mauritius.

Prof. Lalljee talks about

• What is a carbon footprint?
• Importance of carbon accounting
• Emissions from agriculture and food
• Greenhouse-gases from average food consumption
• Methods of calculating the carbon footprint
• What is climate-smart agriculture (CSA)?
• CSA as key to Paris Agreement goals
• CSA practices for reducing carbon footprint

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.

Presentation on 'Climate change in agriculture with a value chain perspective' by Dr. Brinda Ramasawmy, Faculty of Agriculture, Univesity of Mauritius.

The presentation covers the following:

• What are Agri-Food Value Chains and how do they work?
• Adapted vs. non adapted value chains
• Actors in the agri-food value chain
• Nexus approach
• Adaptive Value Chain Approaches: examples and research findings
• Potentional objectives and areas for exploitation in the Mauritian context

Part of the training 'Tackling Climate Change in Agriculture: Approaches to Adaptation and Climate Smart Agriculture - Réduit, Mauritius'.