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Climate-Resilient
Agricultural
Value Chains
Climate Smart Buildings
- Discussions & questions relevant to the class
- Presentations by other group members
- Help with quantitative and technical aspects
- Socializing with your fellow learners
- Work in teams or individually
- Receive expert feedback
- Create useful work products
- 1-on-1 with the instructor
- Regular feedback over content and quality
- Intensive peer support from your fellow learners
Climate Labs cover:
- Discussions & questions relevant to the class
- Presentations by other group members
- Help with quantitative and technical aspects
- Socializing with your fellow learners
- Work in teams or individually
- Receive expert feedback
- Create useful work products
- 1-on-1 with the instructor
- Regular feedback over content and quality
- Intensive peer support from your fellow learners
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Laura has ten years combined research and consulting experience working on climate change adaptation globally. She is the CEO and Founder of ITACA, a technical assistance service provider, committed to accelerating climate adaptation and resilience financing in the Caribbean. She also works for Acclimatise/Willis Tower Watson as climate risk analyst and business development associate.
Laura holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford and a PhD in Geography from King’s College London. The content of this 6 weeks course builds on her PhD research investigating climate resilience in MSME-dominated agricultural value chains in the Caribbean.
Leading the agribusiness and sustainable development agenda at Australia’s National Research Agency -CSIRO-, Dr Lim has a strong expert knowledge on climate change adaptation and mitigation at multiple system scales.
Dr Lim is a Research Scientist focused on encouraging communities and organisations to mitigate and adapt to climate change through communication and engagement. Her research focuses on assisting businesses and their stakeholders understand, plan for and adapt to climate change risk, particularly through a value chain approach.
In her guest lecture, Lilly will introduce some of the work that she and colleagues at CSIRO have been doing mapping value chain dynamics and the impacts of climate change.
Magnus is a Research Fellow within the Reducing Climate Risk theme at SEI. He works on the international dimensions of climate adaptation, national and private sector adaptation planning, climate finance, adaptation governance, the politics of adaptation and - beyond climate change - on creating scenarios and projects that explore future uncertainties.
During this guest lecture, Magnus will talk about transboundary climate risks, adaptation “without borders” and how trade is one of four transmission channels allowing climate impact to be transferred across the globe through international value chains.
Catherine works as Policy Officer for the French Development Agency as Knowledge Manager within the Fragilities, Crises and Conflicts DivisionShe will reflect on a three-step, innovative, common methodology – called Value Chain Analysis for Resilience in Drylands (VC-ARID) that she helped to develop whilst working at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). In her lecture, she will illustrate how this methodology is uses through an empirical study on its application in Kenya, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Pakistan and Tajikistan – specifically for the livestock and cotton sectors. The VC-ARID approach to value chain analysis is innovative as it considers the specific characteristics of semi-arid systems.
Laura has ten years combined research and consulting experience working on climate change adaptation globally. She is the CEO and Founder of ITACA, a technical assistance service provider, committed to accelerating climate adaptation and resilie... Read more
Magnus is a Research Fellow within the Reducing Climate Risk theme at SEI. He works on the international dimensions of climate adaptation, national and private sector adaptation planning, cli...Read more
Catherine works as Policy Officer for the French Development Agency as Knowledge Manager within the Fragilities, Crises and Conflicts Division. She will reflect on a three-step, innovative, commo... Read more
Laura has ten years combined research and consulting experience working on climate change adaptation globally. She is the CEO and Founder of ITACA, a technical assistance service provider, committed to accelerating climate adaptation and resilience financing in the Caribbean. She also works for Acclimatise/Willis Tower Watson as climate risk analyst and business development associate...Read more
Leading the agribusiness and sustainable development agenda at Australia’s National Research Agency -CSIRO-, Dr Lim has a strong expert knowledge on climate change adaptation and mitigation at multiple system scales...Read more
Magnus is a Research Fellow within the Reducing Climate Risk theme at SEI. He works on the international dimensions of climate adaptation, national and private sector adaptation planning, climate...Read more
Catherine works as Policy Officer for the French Development Agency as Knowledge Manager within the Fragilities, Crises and Conflicts Division. She will reflect on a three-step, innovative...Read more
Explore practical frameworks and solutions for understanding and mitigating climate-related risks throughout agricultural value chains and how agri-business intersects with climate change at all scales. Build a multi-scalar understanding of climate resilience and put your learning to work with your own value chain analysis!
No business operates or adapts in isolation. Yet very few businesses are aware of climate risks hidden within their value chains or understand how business relationships can affect (positively or negatively) their own capacity to respond and adapt to climate risks. Equally, governments do not fully understand how global value chains can generate local climate impacts, or how national and subnational policies influence the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of local actors to international climate-driven food shocks.
To understand these dynamics, we need to understand how value chains operate at different scales and levels of complexity: from business-to-business relationships, all the way to global and highly complex agricultural value chain networks.
What better way to learn this than getting to know tools and approaches to help you map value chains and to help you think about how climate change affects value chains at different tiers of the chain, depending on how relationships are formed and maintained, and how value chain networks perform.
By the end of the course, you will not only have gained deep insights stemming from cutting-edge research, but you will have also learnt from valuable case studies and get to work on value chains of your own interest, to show others how you put to practice what you have learnt through this course!
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