Climate change continues to deeply impact food systems, food security, and agricultural livelihoods within low and middle income countries around the world. Addressing the effects on production, livestock grazing, food harvest, and markets calls for more thoughtful design, consistent adoption and scale up of climate smart agriculture (CSA) policies and practices. This project seeks evidence-based research to increase understanding of the ecosystem in which such policies and practices are being implemented in three countries that have been heavily affected in recent years by climate change. This includes poorly-predicted droughts during customary growing seasons, heavy rain and flooding during customary harvest/drying seasons, salt water inundations from cyclone disasters, increased erosion, extreme temperature shocks and the like.
This project will establish a new baseline of understanding of what farmers are doing and can do (considering access to public extension, suppliers, and regulatory enablers) and examine how this varies across groups of small-scale farmers, depending on characteristics such as poverty, gender, and social inclusion. This is complemented by an assessment of stakeholders affecting incentives and the enabling environment for CSA uptake in global/national agricultural value chains, highlighting the policy and regulatory environment, social movements and civil society, and private sector actors and links.
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