We would like to invite you to the first "Climate Smart Advisors" Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) meeting.
Climate Smart Advisors is an EU Horizon Europe project working to upskill agricultural advisors to deliver targeted guidance to farmers about reducing farm emissions and improving their resilience to climate change (Climate Smart Advisors). A core part of this is the development of an AKIS network in each of the 27 partner countries.
On Tuesday 18th November at the RASE Centre, Stoneleigh Park, the UK partners (IfA, Abacus Agriculture and ADAS) are hosting the first of these annual meetings, bringing together actors from across the agricultural industry. The aims of the day are to:
- Connect with agricultural professionals representing a diversity of roles, including producers, advisors, industry bodies and commercial companies
- Map the challenges currently faced by AKIS actors to connect with other industry sectors, and identify how Climate Smart Advisors can work to overcome these
- Hear from positive case studies highlighting success stories of collaboration leading to more sustainable practices in agriculture
- Identify where there are opportunities going forward to build connections across agricultural industries to overcome silos and enable all professionals to have a wider reach with their work
The day will begin at 9:30 and finish at 15:00. There will be talks from national projects working within climate smart agriculture, case studies from farmers who are working to reduce their carbon footprint and workshops to facilitate building stronger networks. A full agenda will be released shortly.
This is the first of four annual meetings, which will feed into each other throughout the duration of the Climate Smart Advisors project. Over the subsequent four years we aim to address: how to connect national and EU AKIS actors; how AKIS actors can increase their engagement directly with farmers to ensure practical challenges are overcome; explore what support farmers and landowners need in their transition to net zero; identify policy and research gaps and collaborate as a network to overcome these.
Spaces are limited so please register now to book your place!
