Climate-Smart Villages

An AR4D approach to scale up climate-smart agriculture

Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)

is proposed as a solution to transform and reorient agricultural systems to support food security under the new realities of climate change.
CSA consists of co-achieving three objectives, or pillars, defined as:

  • Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity to support equitable increases in incomes, food security and development
  • Adapting and building resilience to climate change from the farm to national levels
  • Reducing or removing GHG emissions where possible

    • CSV AR4D approach

    The CSV approach is founded on the principles of participatory action research for grounding research on appropriate and location/context-specific enabling conditions, generating greater evidence of CSA effectiveness in a real-life setting and facilitating co-development of scaling mechanisms towards landscapes, subnational and national levels.

    Vision of the CSV AR4D approach

  • Multi-stakeholder learning platforms
  • Participatory test-beds for generating greater evidence of CSA effectiveness
  • Cornerstones to draw out scaling lessons for policy makers from local to global levels

    • CSA Multilevel Monitoring Framework

    The CSA Multilevel Framework provides standard metrics made of a set of Core Indicators linked to the research questions, and at household, an additional set of Extended indicators covering aspects related to the enabling environment

    Read more about the Climate-Smart Villages

    Climate-Smart Villages. An AR4D approach to scale up climate-smart agriculture.CGSpace Download
    Implementation Manual: CCAFS Climate-Smart Monitoring FrameworkCGSpace Download