Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca

Programme Overview

This five-day professional training programme delivers critical capabilities in climate-smart livestock husbandry, disease surveillance, and agri-food value-chain modernisation.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Delivered in Casablanca, the curriculum equips agricultural leaders to address pressing environmental constraints through proven technological innovations, efficient resource management, and robust biosecurity protocols. Participants analyse integrated production models that enhance resilience against climate volatility whilst safeguarding rural livelihoods and animal welfare across fragile arid and semi-arid production landscapes.

The course addresses key operational stages from farm-level production to wholesale distribution. Attendees examine high-efficiency post-harvest handling systems, modern cold-chain infrastructure design, and loss-reduction methodologies aligned with international standard-setting bodies. In parallel, the programme explores policy levers, public-private agribusiness incentives, and market facilitation mechanisms necessary to encourage private investment in agritech. The practical sessions demystify modern compliance frameworks, ensuring domestic livestock and food products satisfy stringent regional sanitary and phytosanitary requirements.

Structured specifically for directors, technical specialists, and project coordinators, this training prioritises cross-context learning and policy translation. Casablanca provides an effective host environment to evaluate Mediterranean and North African approaches to drought resilience, commercial livestock logistics, and regional trade corridors. Delegates leave equipped with operational templates and analytical tools to guide public sector investment, refine national regulatory frameworks, and steer international development interventions towards demonstrable, climate-resilient economic returns.

Agricultural authorities across arid and semi-arid regions face urgent imperatives to transform agri-food systems under intensifying water stress and climate uncertainty.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ This programme fulfils core technical and value-chain development requirements under the ARDI Programme, supporting public institutions to shift from emergency relief towards systemic climate adaptation. Implementing international sanitary guidelines and developing viable cold-chain infrastructure is essential to reduce critical post-harvest food losses, maintain national food security, and expand commercial trade opportunities.

Delivered by Risalat Consultants International in Casablanca, Morocco, it combines expert-led sessions, real cases and group work, so that participants can apply what they learn in their own institution.

The Programme Strengthens Institutional Capability

• Principles of climate-resilient animal husbandry in water-scarce environments
• Ruminant nutrition, alternative fodder crops, and enteric methane reduction
• Silvopastoral systems and rangeland rehabilitation in dryland geographies
• Manure management, biogas conversion, and circular nutrient cycling
• Assessing vulnerability and adaptation metrics for pastoralist communities
• International standards under the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)
• Designing risk-based surveillance protocols for transboundary animal diseases
• Digital reporting tools and spatial data analysis in disease outbreak control
• Climate and environmental risk assessment
• Adaptation and mitigation planning
• Sector strategies for energy, water and land
• Project design for climate and environmental goals

It is designed for ministry of Agriculture directors and senior policymakers, livestock development and animal production officers, veterinary services managers and epidemiologists and others who want practical, current skills in climate, environment and natural resources.

The Growing Importance of Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca

Climate change, environmental pressure and resource management now shape national plans, budgets and investment decisions. Financiers increasingly expect climate and environmental considerations to be built into projects from the start.

Institutions that can plan for climate risks, manage natural resources well and prepare sound proposals are better placed to protect services and to access the funding available for this work.

Organisations increasingly require professionals capable of:

• Assess climate and environmental risks to their services and assets
• Design projects that meet climate and environmental goals
• Prepare proposals that financiers can approve
• Measure and report results credibly
• Work with communities and partners across sectors

Strong climate, environment and natural resources systems help organisations:

• Protect services and infrastructure from climate risks
• Access climate and environmental finance
• Meet national and international commitments
• Use natural resources sustainably

This Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca programme brings these elements together in a practical format, so that participants understand not only what good practice looks like but also how to introduce it in their own setting, with the people and resources they have.

Who Should Attend This Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Training?

This programme is designed for:

• Ministry of Agriculture directors and senior policymakers
• Livestock development and animal production officers
• Veterinary services managers and epidemiologists
• Agri-food post-harvest logistics specialists
• Agricultural development programme and project coordinators
• Cold-chain infrastructure and marketing planners
• Public agricultural extension and advisory managers
• Agribusiness investment promotion officers
• Donor-funded project technical specialists
• Climate change and environment officers
• Energy, water and agriculture sector staff
• Planning and policy officers

The programme suits experienced professionals as well as those moving into new responsibilities. Groups that mix institutions and countries are encouraged, because participants learn a great deal from each other’s experience.

Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Training, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate climate-smart livestock husbandry models that minimise enteric emissions and conserve scarce water resources
• Formulate early-warning disease surveillance protocols aligned with World Organisation for Animal Health standards
• Design high-efficiency post-harvest handling and storage workflows to curb food losses across vulnerable supply chains
• Structure capital investment plans for decentralized cold-chain infrastructure powered by renewable energy systems
• Develop agribusiness incentive frameworks that leverage public funds to mobilise private agri-food investments
• Apply Codex Alimentarius and sanitary and phytosanitary measures to facilitate regional agri-food trade compliance
• Construct operational monitoring frameworks for climate adaptation initiatives supported by international financing institutions
• Explain the main climate and environmental challenges for their sector
• Assess climate and environmental risks to services and assets
• Plan adaptation and mitigation measures

Each objective is practised during the programme through exercises, cases or group work, so that participants leave able to do it, not only to describe it.

Programme Contents and Structure

Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Training Methodology

The training combines technical lectures with practical case studies, peer-to-peer exchanges, and hands-on institutional design exercises. Delegates analyse real-world examples from dryland environments, engage in diagnostic scenario mapping, and complete structured problem-solving tasks. Daily sessions conclude with the synthesis of operational insights, culminating in the preparation of an actionable institutional development plan tailored to national public sector mandates.

The programme combines:

• Expert-led sessions on current practice
• Regional and international case studies
• Group work and practical exercises
• Simulations and role plays where relevant
• Discussion of participants' own challenges
• Peer learning across institutions and countries
• Practical tools and templates to take back to work
• Daily reflection and action planning

Before the programme, a short pre-assessment helps the facilitators understand each participant’s role and priorities, so that examples and exercises can be adjusted to the group.⁣​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌⁣ Each day ends with a short reflection in which participants note what they will apply at work.

Expected Outcomes

Upon completion of this Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Training, participants will be able to:

• Ability to implement climate-smart livestock management practices tailored to water-stressed regions
• Competency in drafting national and sub-national biosecurity and animal disease surveillance frameworks
• Operational capability to design resilient post-harvest handling and cold-chain logistics plans
• Proficiency in structuring bankable public incentives that de-risk private agri-food investments
• Comprehensive understanding of international food safety standards and export compliance requirements
• A finalised action plan for integrating climate-resilient agricultural interventions into ministry programmes
• Assess climate and environmental risks
• Plan adaptation and mitigation measures

Participants leave with a personal action plan and practical tools they can use in their institution from the first week back. Institutions that send several participants can use the programme to agree shared methods and templates across teams, which makes improvements easier to sustain.

Institutional Application of Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Training

This programme supports organisations in strengthening:

• Climate and environmental planning
• Project design
• Access to finance
• Results measurement
• Stakeholder involvement

Participants return with practical tools to improve:

• Risk assessments
• Concept notes
• Results frameworks
• Monitoring systems
• Partnership arrangements

The programme is built so that learning moves from the classroom into the institution. Participants work on their own processes and documents where possible, and leave with an action plan that their managers can review and support.

Regional Relevance & Application

Europe

European institutions apply climate, environment and natural resources within detailed regulatory frameworks and reform agendas. Participants from Europe can compare their practice with colleagues from other regions and test how established methods work under different conditions.

Africa

Across Africa, ministries, agencies and project teams working in climate, environment and natural resources increasingly operate alongside donor-financed programmes that expect clear systems and evidence. The programme helps participants adapt good practice to the institutions and resources they work with.

Middle East

In the Middle East, national development strategies and diversification plans place growing demands on climate, environment and natural resources. Participants explore how to build the capability these plans need inside public bodies and companies.

Asia

Institutions across Asia combine rapid growth with ambitious modernisation programmes. Participants from Asia can share their experience of scaling systems quickly and learn from approaches used elsewhere.

Pacific

Small island and Pacific states face particular constraints of size, distance and capacity. The programme highlights practical, proportionate approaches to climate, environment and natural resources that suit smaller institutions.

Holding the programme in Casablanca, Morocco brings participants together away from their daily pressures, so they can compare how climate, environment and natural resources is handled in different settings. The same programme can also be delivered in-house for one institution, in its own country or online, with cases taken from its current work.

Host Country Profile – Morocco

Training programmes and study tours in Casablanca suit government officials, project teams and professionals focusing on international trade, maritime transport, banking and regional economic development.

Studying away from their own country gives participants time to focus, a fresh view of their own institution and the chance to build a network with colleagues from other countries.

Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Training Deliverables

Participants receive support before, during and after the programme, so that preparation, learning and follow-up form one continuous experience.

Before the Programme

• Participant Pre-Assessment
• Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Readiness Assessment
• Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Resource Pack
• Preparatory Reading Materials
• Complimentary Visa Support & Advisory

During the Programme

• Airport Pickup & Welcome Assistance
• Accommodation with Breakfast
• Welcome Networking Dinner
• Risalat Training Kit (Bag, Bottle, Mug, T-Shirt, Cap, Passport Cover, Pens, Notebook, Magnet & Keychain)
• Comprehensive Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca Training Manual
• Climate Risk Screening Checklist
• Options Appraisal Template
• Concept Note Template
• Results Measurement Template
• Practical Workshops & Simulations
• Group Discussions & Peer Learning
• Daily Lunch and Refreshments
• Full Access to Training Venue Facilities
• Mini Pad / Tablet with Digital Learning Materials
• Field Visit (where applicable)
• Entertaining City Tour

After the Programme

• Certificate of Completion
• Risalat Programme Participation Recognition Award
• Post-Training Reference Materials
• Funding Readiness Checklist
• Monitoring and Reporting Template
• Post-Training Support & Follow-Up Guidance
• Programme Report

Institutions can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, delivered at their premises or online. Request a proposal.

Common Challenges in Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca, And How This Training Helps

How can institutions assess climate and environmental risks to their services and assets?

The programme addresses this directly on the first day (Climate-Smart Livestock Production and Water Resilience), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions design projects that meet climate and environmental goals?

The programme addresses this directly on the second day (Veterinary Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Biosecurity Systems), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions prepare proposals that financiers can approve?

The programme addresses this directly on the third day (Post-Harvest Handling, Cold Chain, and Waste Reduction), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions measure and report results credibly?

The programme addresses this directly on the fourth day (Agribusiness Policy, Incentive Structures, and Private Capital Mobilisation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

How can institutions work with communities and partners across sectors?

The programme addresses this directly on the fifth day (Market Compliance, Regional Trade, and Project Formulation), where participants practise the methods involved and adapt them to their own institution, then build it into their action plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where does the Agri-Food Innovation and Climate-Smart Livestock Systems in Casablanca programme take place?

It runs from 11 Jan 2027 to 15 Jan 2027, in Casablanca, Morocco. The registration deadline is shown at the top of this page.

Who should attend?

The programme is designed for ministry of Agriculture directors and senior policymakers, livestock development and animal production officers, veterinary services managers and epidemiologists, agri-food post-harvest logistics specialists, and others who want practical skills in climate, environment and natural resources.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a Certificate of Completion from Risalat Consultants International.

Can this programme be delivered for our institution only?

Yes. We can deliver a tailored in-house version at your premises, in another city or online, built around your own cases. Use the proposal request on this page.

Do I need prior experience in climate, environment and natural resources?

No specialist background is required beyond experience in a related role. A short pre-assessment helps the facilitators adapt the sessions to the group.

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