Training workshop on “How smallholding farmers and local governments can together adapt to climate change”

On 10 and 13 May, 2014, the Faculty of Environment (FOE), Hanoi University of Agriculture, in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Hanoi, Vietnam successfully organized a training workshop on “How smallholding farmers and local governments can together adapt to climate change” for lecturers, researchers, and students from the Faculties of Environment, Land Management, and Economics and Rural Development.The two day training workshop provided the participants with interdisciplinary and participatory tools designed to draw information from farmers for people who work with farmers, development workers, agricultural organizations and government policy-makers. Given these tools, training participants are expected to be able to establish a baseline, or starting point, of farmers' exposure to climate risks, understand the climatic, and also the non-climatic, impacts on farmers and their adaptation strategies and help bringing these adaptation strategies into land-use planning in villages and local governments.