GEF/World Bank Regional climate, water and agriculture: Impacts on and adaptation of agro-ecological systems in Africa. "Technical training workshop on implementation of the Ricardian analysis" May 3 - 6 in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.

This workshop is funded by the Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (TFESSD) with complimentary sponsorship from CEEPA, the Agricultural and Rural Development Department of the World Bank, and the World Bank Institute.

The workshop forms part of the project activities aimed at ensuring consistency in approach and quality control necessary to provide a regional assessment of the vulnerability of African agriculture to climate change, and adaptation options, and to strengthen the local capacity to address these issues. The focus of this workshop is the Ricardian approach and the microeconomic modeling for the analyses. The workshop intends the following specific objectives: (i) to discuss and finalize the country level data for the Ricardian analysis; (ii) to provide further training to country teams on the statistical package to undertake the Ricardian analysis; (iii) to decide on the functional forms of the country level Ricardian model and run initial country level Ricardian regressions; and (iv) to provide guidance on how to undertake the microeconomc analysis.

Participants are mainly from country teams undertaking the study in the eleven African countries, and International experts in the field of climate change, agriculture and adaptations strategies from the World Bank, Yale University, and the University of Southern Denmark.