Tag: climate-smart
An IFAD innovation case for Asia Pacific Inclusiveand Sustainable Rural Transformation: Climate-smart, Tree-based, Co-investment in Adaptation and Mitigation in Asia (Smart Tree-Invest)
‘CSA Plan’: A guide to scaling climate-smart agriculture
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has developed‘CSA Plan’, a guide for scaling climate-smart agriculture(CSA), in response to demand from partners for practicalapproaches to support evidence-based planning,programming, and policy. CSA Plan consists of fourcomponents: (1) Situation Analysis; (2) Targeting andPrioritizing; (3) Program Support; and (4) Monitoring,Evaluation and Learning (Figure 1). Within eachcomponent of CSA Plan are information, tools, andtechniques to enable action. CSA Plan components canbe and are being applied both independently and as apackage across levels of decision making fromsubnational to continental scales globally. Here wedescribe the concepts underpinning the four-stepapproach derived from lessons learned during last twoyears of working with state and non-state actors to scaleupCSA.
Black pepper
Farmers in Central Viet Nam are learning how black pepper can help their agroforests and homegardens be more resilient to climate change. Quite rarely do we enter a restaurant that doesn’t have a black-pepper grinder on the table. A pinch of black pepper is added to almost every type of recipe imaginable. Black pepper (Piper nigrum), native to South and Southeast Asia, is one of the world’s most traded spices. It is presently largely cultivated in India, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Viet Nam and China. Of the 473,000 tonnes produced in 2013, one-third came from Vietnam, a top exporter for over a decade, growing approximately 97,600 hectares of the plant in 2015.