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Webinar - Agriculture and the Environment - June 2024

AgriConnect Agriculture and the Environment

The Agenda – What will we do today?

●Welcome and Opening Remarks
●About AgriConnect
●Some AgriConnect Do’s and Don’ts
●About World Environment Day
oThe Uniqueness of our ecosystems and farms
●Viewing of Video - World Environment Day 2024: https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/
●Presentation - Agriculture and the Environment
oEnvironmental Services Vital to Agriculture
oAgricultural Practices, Population and Food Security
oThe impact of climate change on Agriculture
oImplications of agriculture on land and water resources
oPesticide use and the impacts on agriculture resources and human health
oBring back pollinators – bats, bees, birds
oSustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, conservation agriculture and their benefits
 
●Practical Actions that you can take to protect the land and soil
oTips on how to make agriculture sustainable
oGuidelines for Building a Compost Heap
 
●Introducing Nature Positive Universities
imagePresentation - AgriConnect - Agriculture and the Environment - June 2024

 

imageUNEP - World Environment Day 2024 - Practical Guide
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AgriConnect Innovation and Difference

AgriConnect promises: 

  • That the technology deployed and the capacity built through the supplemental course content related to value chain development, digital literacy and entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector will drive the impact, scale and interest of youth, women, and differently-abled persons in the agriculture sector, and importantly bridge the digital divide. 

  • To address the urgent need to reduce the extent of labour under-utilisation among youth. 

  • To place focus on education and training to enable youth in agriculture to benefit from new and emerging opportunities in agriculture. The knowledge products that are being designed and disseminated through the devices will be innovative, culturally relevant, and fully aligned with the needs of the labour market and importantly capture the interest and imagination of youth in Ghana. 

  • That the activities and outputs of the Programme will in the near future support the modernization of the agriculture sector by boosting productivity and supporting the development of agribusiness, thereby creating the linkages between farms and plots and other economic activities such as manufacturing and agro-processing. 

  • To be innovative in its approach as the Programme is designed to bring scale and impact by allowing youth, women and differently-abled persons to align their educational qualifications in agribusiness, digital skills and value chain development with dignified and meaningful jobs that will allow them to maximise the potential of their entrepreneurial spirits towards improved and sustainable livelihoods. 

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