Adopt and Learn is a simple model of an ‘adoption’ process. It explores how farmers learn of new technology or information and eventually make a decision to adopt or not. The model is useful for understanding factors influencing the success or failure of a technology-dissemination project, including the role of extension agents. The model works at community scale with a diversity of agents and their multiple learning styles
Tag: environmental services
Capacity-strengthening approach to vulnerability assessment (CaSAVA)
The Capacity-Strengthening Approach to Vulnerability Assessment (CaSAVA) synthesizes local and scientific knowledge to identify existing livelihoods’ assets (human, social, financial, physical and natural capital) and deficits at multiple landscape scales. The information for the synthesis comes from multiple stakeholders (for example, farmers, government officers and scientists) and is designed to enable local stakeholders (female and male farmers) to buffer and adapt to both economic (that is, fluctuating prices) and climate-related (for example, extreme weather events) shocks and hazards. CaSAVA is tailored for participatory approaches to collect information disaggregated by gender and, most importantly, to strengthen farmers’ awareness of, and capacity for thinking about and articulating, otherwise latent problems. CaSAVA further facilitates the assessment results to develop conservation and livelihoods’ strategies to increase farmers’ resilience to shocks and hazards.
Biofuel emission reduction estimator scheme (BERES): landuse history, production systems and technical emission factors
The Biofuel Emission Reduction Estimator Scheme (BERES) is an integrated assessment method for estimating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions related to biofuel production. It includes three different phases of crop production processes within lifecycle analysis and is in line with EU-mandated calculations. The phases are 1) land conversion; 2) crop production; and 3) postharvest commodity transport and processing.