Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture.
Title: Monitoring outcomes of climate-smart agriculture at multiple levels: understanding adoption synergies and tradeoffs
Speaker: Osana Bonilla-Findji
1. Monitoring outcomes
of CSA options at
multiple levels:
Understanding adoption, synergies
and tradeoffs
O. Bonilla-Findji, A. Eitzinger, N. Andrieu, G. Bejarano, M. Ouedraogo,
S. Buah, R. Zougmoré, A. Jarvis
2. Adapted icons from: Aleksandr Vector, Andy Mmot, Christian Baptist, Gan Khoon Lay, Iga, Irene Hoffman, Tatyana, VectorBakery; from Noun Project; and PNG Image.
CSA
2009
POSITION
MOBILIZE
ORGANIZING
PRINCIPLE
3. Solid and flexible questionnaire
tailored, calibrated and validated
(9 countries across 5 regions)
Productivity/food security
Adaptation
Mitigation
CSA Pillars covered
Outcome
indicators
Descriptive
indicators
Adapted icons from: Adrien Coquet, Alexandr Cherkinsky, Brand Mania, Delwar Hossain, Gan Khoon Lay, Martin Vanco Luis Prado, REVA,; from Noun Project.
Integrated CSA framework
4. Application
Why?
Who adopts what?1
Perceived CSA outcomes2
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3
Participation in
decision-making
Control over
resources
CSA
implementation
Effect on labor
time
Gender Farm performance
Synergies and trade-offs
44 Farm T1
Farm T2
Editor's Notes
If we look backwards to when the CSA concept emerged … we can say that its journey has been successful in many ways.
* The CSA concept has proven to be a powerful organizing principle to reflect the ambition to better integrate agricultural development and climate responsiveness.
It has helped to place agriculture on the international climate negotiations table (COP) and
* It has mobilize a coalition of organizations and institutions aiming to promote and finance CSA scaling …in a variety of settings
… However, there is an important gap that stand on the way for this scaling to be successful ….and it’s the fact that we want to program and prioritize based on the potential of CSA technologies, that we mostly only know from empirical assessments and expert consultations… because there is a clear lack of direct observation or monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of these technologies and on the context-specific outcomes they achieve.
To contribute filling this gap, we designed an integrated framework aiming to support teams in the field, to monitor and track progress over time of:
adoption of CSA practices and technologies, as well as access to climate information services
and their related impacts at household and farm level
This framework proposes standard Descriptive Indicators to track changes in 5 Enabling dimensions that might affect adoption patterns,
a set of 5 CORE indicators at Household level ….to assess perceived effects of CSA practices on Food Security, Productivity, Income and Climate vulnerability
and 4 CORE INDICATORS on Gender aspects
then at farm level, 7 CORE indicators are suggested to determine farms CSA performance, as well as synergies and trade-offs among the three pillars.
This integrated framework is associated with a cost effective data collection App (Geofarmer) that allows capturing information in almost real–time.
This App supports a solid and flexible questionnaire that is structured around different thematic modules connected to specific indicators.
Thus, depending on the user interest he can decide the full or partial use of the modules.
These tools ( now available in 4 languages) have been tailored, calibrated and validated across 9 countries in the 5 CCAFS regions …with very diverse agro ecologies and farming systems…. with the support of local teams, partners and farmers themselves….
Based on data collected in the Ghana Climate-Smart Village, we can see how its systematic application allows responding four main questions:
Who is adopting what ? … Which different household typologies may exist within a community related to the adoption of CSA practices … why do they adopt them? which are the main driving factors?
Which are the perceived outcomes of specific CSA options on households’ food/livelihood security and adaptive capacity?
How are 4 gender dimensions affected or not by the implementation of CSA options?
And at farm level, Which are the performances, synergies and trade-offs between the Productivity, Adaptation and Mitigation benefits ?
Results clearly highlight the complexity not only because of the tradeoffs that appear among farm level response in the different pillars but also because of differences in the response of farms that adopt similar CSA options.
Although applied so far in the context of the CCAFS climate smart village work, we expect that this flexible CSA monitoring framework can also support future implementation efforts from a wide range of partner organizations.