Become a Climate Resilience Trainer-webinar-3

The ALBATROSS project is launching a Training of Trainers initiative across five African countries to help vulnerable communities move beyond traditional coping mechanisms that are no longer sufficient against escalating climate shocks. By integrating Nature-based Solutions (NbS) with data-driven Climate Services (CS), this program empowers local leaders to build long-term resilience and protect food, water, and economic security. 

This presentation will share ongoing work from the ALBATROSS Tamatave Hub in eastern Madagascar on linking socio-productive baseline data, operational monitoring and farmer-facing climate services through the NBAT Tool and the AgriSupport application. Based on data from 152 farmers across Toamasina region, the current dashboard visualises farmer profiles, crop diversity, ALBATROSS areas, existing productive lands and farmer typologies. The application is being designed with a double purpose: to support the project team in monitoring agroforestry implementation, and to provide farmers, field technicians and trained lead farmers with accessible information on their farms, climate conditions and practical adaptation recommendations. The next development phase aims to track the full implementation chain on each degraded ALBATROSS plot, including cleaning, terracing, planting holes, seedling distribution, short-term crops, planting, maintenance, tree survival and production monitoring. The presentation will discuss how NBAT and AgriSupport can jointly support more targeted adaptation planning, climate services delivery and long-term monitoring of agroforestry-based adaptation trajectories in the Tamatave Hub.

Dr. Arthur Bostvironnois, Eastern Coast Project Coordinator, Tamatave Hub – EU ALBATROSS Project, Adaptation Climatique et Transition Agricole Platform (ACTA), Bôndy International

Arthur Bostvironnois is a geographer and Regional Coordinator for Bôndy International in Toamasina, Madagascar. He coordinates the Tamatave Hub of the European ALBATROSS project, focusing on climate services, nature-based solutions and agroforestry-based adaptation with local farmers and territorial stakeholders. His work combines political ecology, participatory approaches, field coordination, socio-productive monitoring and applied research on climate resilience. He is particularly interested in linking farm-level data, stakeholder knowledge and operational monitoring tools to better understand and support adaptation trajectories in vulnerable rural territories.

Milan Kalas, Vision Holder / Managing Director, KAJO

Milan Kalas is a hydrologist and disaster risk management expert at KAJO Services, an ICT consultancy developing operational tools and services for climate resilience, emergency management and adaptation. With around twenty years of experience across Copernicus Emergency Management Service applications, his work spans flood forecasting and impact-based early warning, the integration of Earth observation, citizen science and IoT data, and the delivery of practical climate services to end users. Within the ALBATROSS project, he contributes to the technical development of the NBAT tool, climate services, citizen science and impact-based forecasting, designing dashboards, data pipelines and climate services that turn socio-productive baselines and field monitoring into accessible adaptation information across the project’s hubs

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