The African Adaptation Research Centres (AARC) initiative managed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)'s Climate Change and Water program has funded the EnhancingCclimate Change Adaptation in Agriculture and Water Resources in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) project. The TOA-MD Team cnducted workshops to train project researchers on TOA-MD modeling for climate change adaptation in agriculture. Participants included economists from Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia. They participated in two workshops, the first Workshop was organized by AgMIP in Accra, Ghana (September 2012), and a follow up Workshop was organized by the Sokoine University of Agriculture of Tanzania, in Dar Es Salaam (July, 2013).
Workshop Participants
| Name of participant | Profession | Research area | Country | Sept 2012 Workshop | July 2013 Workshop |
| Khamaldin Mutabazi | Senior researcher | CC economics | Tanzania | X | |
| Victoria Mugula | MSc student | CC economics | Tanzania | X | |
| Elisha William Bakuza | PhD student | CC economics: dryland crops | Tanzania | X | |
| Ponsian Sewando | PhD student | CC economics: livestock | Tanzania | X | |
| Stephen Munishi | PhD Student | CC economics: crops | Tanzania | X | X |
| Stella Matere | PhD student | CC economics: crops | Kenya | X | X |
| Jonathan Nzuma | Senior researcher | CC Economics | Kenya | X | |
| Fredu Tegebu | PhD | Economics | Ethiopia | X | |
| Teshome Kumela | MSc student | Agri-economics | Ethiopia | X | |
| Abbas Elsir Mohamed Elamin | Senior researcher | CC economics | Sudan | X | |
| Abdelhamed Mohamed Magboul Ibrahim | PhD Student | CC economics: livestock | Sudan | X | X |
| Yitayal Abebe Kebede | Student | EIAR - MS Student | Ethiopia | X | |
| Siza Tumbo | Project Leader | Project Management | Tanzania | X |
TOA-MD Workshop –IDRC Project
Dar Es Saalam, Tanzania
July 10-12, 2013
Day 1: July 10
|
TIME |
ACTIVITY |
RESPONSIBLE |
|
09:00-9.30 |
Introductions Goals of the workshop & expectations, Plans for the workshop |
ALL Mutabazi, R.Valdivia |
|
09:30-10.00 |
Presentations and Discussion: Data, Modeling status |
Kenya |
|
10.00-10.30 |
Project Presentations and discussion: Data, Modeling status |
Sudan |
|
10.30-11.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
|
|
11.00-11.30 |
Project Presentations and discussion: Data, Modeling status |
Ethiopia |
|
11.30.12.00 |
Project Presentations and discussion: Data, Modeling status |
Tanzania |
|
12.00-1.00 |
Data review: System 1 parameters: Population, and Stratification |
R.Valdivia |
|
1.00-2.00 |
Lunch |
ALL |
|
2.00-4.30 |
Group Work – Teams + Afternoon tea from 3.00-3.30
|
Country teams |
|
4.30-5.00 |
|
Country teams |
Day 2: July 11
|
TIME |
ACTIVITY |
RESPONSIBLE |
|
08:30-10.00 |
Teams present updated System 1 parameters |
Country teams |
|
10.00 - 10.30 |
Designing TOA-MD Applications - Review |
R.Valdivia |
|
10.30-11.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
ALL |
|
11.00-11.30 |
TOA-MD and Climate Change Impact Assessments
|
R. Valdivia |
|
11.30.1.00 |
Group Work –Teams
|
Country teams |
|
1.00-2.00 |
Lunch |
ALL |
|
2.00-4.30 |
Group Work – Teams + Afternoon tea from 3.00-3.30 Parameterization of system 2 and running the model |
Country teams |
|
4.30 –5.00 |
|
Country teams |
Day 3: July 12
|
TIME |
ACTIVITY |
RESPONSIBLE |
|
08:30-10.30 |
Teams to present preliminary results and interpretation |
Country teams |
|
10.30-11.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
ALL |
|
11.00-11.30 |
Other topics |
R. Valdivia |
|
11.30.1.00 |
Software update |
R.Valdivia |
|
1.00-2.00 |
Lunch |
ALL |
|
2.00-5.00 |
Planning and conclusions |
ALL |