Farmers in Bangladesh have to adapt their livelihoods both to a changing environment and to changing markets. Our recent working paper “Understanding Adaptive Capacity: Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security in Coastal Bangladesh” analysed the results of survey data from 980 households in coastal Bangladesh.
Surveys with farming households in Bangladesh revealed that the sustainable livelihoods approach may be a useful for understanding climate adaptation. Phot…
Various interventions are being implemented in villages of Vaishali district of Bihar in India by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Three villages, namely Rajapakar, Bhattadasi and Mukundpur in Vaishali district, come under the banner of Climate Smart Villages (CSVs).
Climate smart villages in India are being rolled out in three districts, supporting farmers in their everyday struggles through information and new technol…
Chaudhury’s work involves the use of a new community adaptation prioritization and planning tool called Participatory Social Return on Investment (PSROI). PSROI builds on traditional Social Return on Investment methods – which normal focus on economic analysis of pre-determined interventions – by integrating a participatory, community-driven component.
Top-down economic analyses won’t tell us what really matters to communities adapting their agriculture to climate change. Photo: N. Palmer
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Joost Vervoort, scenarios officer for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), and Katindi Sivi Njonjo spoke to a group of CCAFS stakeholders as a prelude to the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2) in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
Learning how to use the CCAFS scenarios tool helps stakeholders envision how to arrive at a better future under a variety of possible circumstances. Photo:…
