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Item The 5Q approach for gender data on empowerment in climate adaptation projects: Case study in Ghana(Report, 2022-01-14) Eitzinger, Anton; Nikoi, Gordon; Slavchevska, Vanya; Bonilla-Findji, OsanaOur research validates the 5Q approach (5Q) for the collection of gender data on empowerment in climate adaptation projects. 5Q was developed as a cost-effective and innovative system for capturing near-real-time feedback within projects. 5Q uses smart-question-trees (5Q-SQTs) and digital tools to complement traditional methods of data collection. It has been widely used to measure changes in knowledge/attitudes/skills to understand the adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices and for M&E systems of climate-smart villages. It uses simple sets of questions part of a logic-question-tree structure, implemented at multiple rounds, thus simplifying the burden for respondents while rapidly and with high frequency providing feedback to the project implementers.Item Evaluación de la Estrategia agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima (EASAC) hacia el escalamiento de la ASAC: Contribuciones y estado de avance en la región SICA(Report, 2021-12-06) Collazos, Sara; Howland, Fanny C.; Le Coq, Jean-FrançoisEstrategia de Agricultura Sostenible Adaptada al Clima (EASAC) para la región del Sistema de Integración Centro Americana (SICA). Adoptada oficialmente por el CAC, en junio 2017, esta estrategia regional tiene el objetivo de escalar la ASAC en la región. Tres años después de su lanzamiento, se inició un proceso de evaluación de los resultados de la EASAC. Movilizando el enfoque de evaluación basada en teoría, aplicada a una innovación política, en este caso, la EASAC, este proceso de evaluación considera tres etapas: i) formulación de la teoría de cambio de la EASAC, ii) identificación de los cambios alineados con la teoría de cambio, (resultados de un primer informe), iii) análisis de contribución de la EASAC a los cambios priorizados. Este informe presenta la tercera parte del estudio, centrado en la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cuál es la contribución de la EASAC para escalar la ASAC y qué lecciones se pueden aprender? El objetivo con esta pregunta es determinar en qué medida la EASAC ha facilitado el escalamiento de ASAC al proponer un marco regional guía para el escalamiento de las tres rutas política, institucional y financiera e identificar las lecciones que se pueden aprender. A partir de un proceso de priorización y consultoría para pasar de 252 cambios identificados en la primera etapa del estudio a 23 cambios se realizó el análisis de contribución de la EASAC con los siguientes resultados: Las trayectorias de los cambios priorizados hacia el impacto reflejan diferentes niveles de avance en las tres rutas de la teoría de cambio tanto en el nivel regional como en los ocho (8) países de la región SICA. De 23 cambios priorizados, 8 cambios han ‘confirmado’ su trayectoria hacia el escalamiento de la ASAC en la región, 13 cambios han ‘iniciado’ su trayectoria hacia el impacto; y los últimos 2 cambios se ubican en la categoría de ‘no iniciado’. Un hallazgo identificado es la disparidad en el nivel de avance de las tres rutas: la ruta institucional se encuentra en un nivel alto de implementación; seguida de la ruta política y por último la ruta financiera en un nivel más incipiente. El nivel de avance de los cambios en los países también ha sido dispar: Centroamérica, Costa Rica, Guatemala y Honduras evidencian un mayor nivel de avance; El Salvador, Nicaragua y Panamá un avance medio y finalmente República Dominicana y Belice reflejan un avance incipiente.Item Reporte técnico: Seguimiento a la metodología “Sala Situacional” para monitoreo de seguridad alimentaria en Chiquimula(Report, 2021-12-02) Melgar, Luis-Mauricio; Muller, AnaAgroclimas es un proyecto financiado por el Programa del CGIAR sobre Cambio Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria. Agroclimas tiene como objetivo fortalecer el uso de información agro-climática y de seguridad alimentaria entre tomadores de decisión en Centro América para mejorar la adaptación al cambio climático. Acción contra el Hambre ha sido un socio clave en el proyecto Agroclimas desde el 2015. En Guatemala, Agroclimas trabajó en consorcio con Acción contra el Hambre y la Secretaría de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SESAN) en codiseñar un sistema de monitoreo y alerta temprana para mejorar la respuesta ante el hambre estacional en el Corredor Seco. En el último año de Agroclimas, 2021, el enfoque de Acción contra el Hambre ha sido en apoyar a establecer la Sala Situacional Municipal como un sistema de monitoreo e información en Chiquimula y Zacapa, fortalecer las capacidades del personal técnico local en usar el sistema y en presentar la información generada en espacios relevantes, por ejemplo, en los Consejos Municipales de Seguridad Alimentaria y NutricionalItem Climate Investment Plan for the Agriculture Sector: A Decision Support Tool for Scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies and Practices in Gandaki Province, Nepal(Report, 2021-11-20) Neupane, Santosh; Khatri, Laxman; Bhusal, Aastha; Neupane, Ghrishma; Shivakoti, SabnamGandaki Province is centrally located in Nepal with most of its area being hills and high hills (64%). There are 11 districts in Gandaki Province with one metropolitan city, namely, Pokhara; 26 municipalities and 58 rural municipalities. Gandaki Province contributes about 9% to the GDP of the whole country. In terms of agriculture production, Gandaki Province is food deficit and relies on other provinces for the supply of pulses, fruits, vegetables, and livestock products. Of the total area of the province, 24% of the land area is cultivable; around 24% of the cultivable land is fallow land (117,076 ha), which remains a great challenge for the upcoming days in terms of food production and enabling food security in the province. The prevalent climate is varied in the province starting from the plains of Nawalpur to the high Himalayas of Manang and Mustang. The highest maximum temperature has been recorded in Kaski district (30.7°c) and lowest minimum temperature has been recorded in Manang district (-4.6°c) over the time period 1971 to 2014. Similarly, the highest annual precipitation has been recorded in Kaski district (2,710.5 mm) while the lowest annual precipitation has been recorded in Mustang district (257.8 mm). Varied climatic risks are prevalent in Gandaki Province such as temperature and rainfall risk, ecological risk, flood, landslide, drought and Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) risk. Lamjung district is very highly prone to the combined risk index of all these risks. Similarly, Gorkha, Tanahun, Manang, Myagdi, Parbat and Baglung districts are highly prone to the combined risk index. The Nepalese economy is highly dependent on the agriculture and forestry sector which contributes around 33% of the national GDP. Agriculture is climate sensitive, which makes the Nepalese economy vulnerable to climatic variability. Although Nepal is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to erratic climate phenomenon, Nepal’s contribution to greenhouse emissions is negligible. Food production and food security are of high concern in the changing climatic scenario as compared to land availability at individual household level. In the Nepalese context, food security is of high importance; despite the fact that agriculture is still subsistence in nature. Food production in these changing climatic/socio-economic situation and people’s access to food are the key indicators of food security. Thus, adoption of CSA technologies at farmers’ field level is of immense importance in order to mitigate the ill effects of climate change while ensuring food production and food security. The Climate Investment Plan (CIP) has been designed as a decision-making tool for agricultural investment in terms of adoption of climate smart agricultural (CSA) technologies. It will act as a yard stick to the government and policy makers to calculate how much investment is needed for attaining certain levels of crop production, thereby enhancing the livelihood of the farming society. Adoption of CSA technologies is expected to improve food production, increase agricultural income, increase technical efficiency of inputs used, enhance climate change adaptation, and produce a low environmental footprint. With the changing weather conditions, decreased farm production and productivity it is of prime necessity to enhance crop/livestock production in the Nepalese context. Adoption of CSA technologies by farming communities is the most appropriate way to do this. CIP will act as a document to guide government authorities to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate agricultural investment targeted to enhance agricultural/livestock production via adoption of CSA technologies. The Climate Investment Plan has been methodologically divided into five steps: The first two steps consist of the formation of a climate risk matrix and risk-CSA matrix. The climate risk matrix was formed at district level to identify climatic risks pertaining to individual crop/livestock. Similarly, the risk-CSA matrix contains the potential CSA technologies addressing the climate risk for each crop/livestock at district level. These two steps help in the identification of climate risk pertaining to each crop/livestock commodity and potential CSA options. Thirdly, cost of cultivation was calculated for normal production and along with CSA technologies with the help of experts. This data was analyzed using Excel Solver in the fourth step and climate investment was carried out in the fifth step. Crop specific CSA technologies were selected from Excel Solver analysis, an Excel based commonly used optimization technique, and a certain area was allocated for cultivation which in general maximized the production/income while minimizing GHG emissions and human labour use in agricultural operations. Individual CSA technologies in each crop/livestock component was treated as a single treatment i.e., no bundling of technologies. Each CSA technology were treated as a single component while looking at the production, productivity and income generation. In the case of rice, a system of rice intensification (SRI), alternate waiting and drying (AWD), improved varieties, effective nutrient management, direct seeded rice (DSR), use of farm yard manure (FYM), and normal rice cultivation were the CSA technologies recommended/identified from the expert’s consultation (representing NARC, DoA and MoALD). Similarly, in wheat production, ICT, minimum tillage, improved varieties, nutrient management and normal production systems were identified. Likewise, different CSA technologies were identified for maize, lentil, black gram, potato, tomato, cole crops, apple, banana, mango, sweet orange, and mandarin orange. In the case of livestock - cow, buffalo, goat and fish were selected and cost benefit was analyzed. Due to lack of cost of production data for these livestock components from government sources, experts in their respective fields were used for the purpose. Gandaki Province needs to invest in seed, fertilizer, mulching materials, pesticide and micronutrients as required for crop commodity production. Investment in building infrastructure i.e., irrigation facilities, can be a long term investment by the provincial government. Similarly, crop/livestock insurance schemes should be a yearly strategic programme in the province. The Climate Adaptation Investment Plan has been developed mainly after considering the input supply needed while adopting the CSA technologies. Provincial government is recommended to provide a 25%, 15% and 5% subsidy on the input cost for the first three years of implementing the plan. From the 4th year onwards, the provincial government should make proper arrangements for collateral/interest free loan to the farming communities via proper channels. The investment amount has been calculated based on CSA technology and districts selected for each crop items. Crop and district specific (selected districts) investment should be done to augment agricultural production/productivity in the province. For livestock production, we lack official data on cost and return and the estimates done in this report are based on experts’ judgement and knowledge. Unlike crops/fruits/vegetables, CSA technologies are very specific in the case of livestock production. In the case of buffalo milk production, high yielding breeds in both the Terai and hill regions are expected to give higher returns from the investment. Similarly, for cow milk, high yielding breeds are expected to give higher return on the investment. Regarding goat farming, high yielding goat breeds need to be introduced in the Nepalese situation to make goat farming a lucrative agri-business. Fish farming can be promoted to make Nepalese fish production enough to feed the population. Rainbow trout is best suited to the cold running water in the hill regions of Nepal. Similarly, polyculture of Carps, Catfish, Pangas and other fish can be produced across both the Terai and hill regions. As the present study is based on secondary data sources and experts’ consultation, the results generated from this study are prone to errors but maximum diligence has been given to make the results more authentic and pragmatic. The investment portfolio generated in this study is based on CSA technologies that are/can be relevant to Gandaki Province. No socio-economic and gender perspective study has been carried out to validate the CSA technologies at farmer level. The present study has generated investment at district/ province pertaining to specific crop commodities. Authentic data from credible sources is required at municipal/rural-municipal/ward level to estimate the investment required at these levels.Item Conservation Agriculture: Gateway for Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Systems(Report, 2021-11-20) Jat, Mangi Lal; Sidhu, Harminder S.; Kalvaniya, Kailash C.; Rana, Dharamvir SinghThe Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices with increased acceptance across the globe are being considered as harbinger for sustainable intensification of smallholder production systems. Its positive impact on natural resources, and adaptation to and mitigation of climate change effects are widely acknowledged. In developing world specially Asia and Africa, CA is a relatively new introduction and hence capacity development is vital for development, adaptation and scaling CA based technologies for impact at scale on smallholder farmers in these regions. The training objectives were centered on understanding Conservation Agriculture (CA) and its applications in Asia and Africa. The key findings from the training were that participants need more collaboration with educational institutions and stakeholders when it comes to new knowledge and information, that they would need to re-visit the research, education, and extension linkages vis-à-vis the CA practices, and that the information gained during the course had to cascade to students and the farming community. The participants were pleased that the CA practices was out and that they could begin to explore different areas they could implement on-site in their contexts. Furthermore, participants noted that the CA practices was a useful technology to their work situations. Finally, the participants stated that the partnerships they had with the different experts represented by the different institutions was paramount to the subsequent programs and activities, that would follow the CA practices.Item Designing CS Farming Systems towards Carbon-Neutral Sustainable Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India(Report, 2021-11-20) Jat, Mangi Lal; Kumar, Yogesh; Kalvaniya, Kailash C.; Rana, Dharamvir SinghIn the South India region, the inefficient use and mismanagement of production resources, especially land, water, energy and agro-chemicals, have vastly impacted health of the natural resource base resulting into global warming led climatic variability. Several climate-smart agricultural practices (CSAPs) developed, refined and tested by several agencies and research organizations, demonstrated improved productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity for different commodities and agro-ecological zones within the region. However, the perception of farmers on climate vulnerability and responses of the CSAPs vary with bio-physical and socio-economic diversity of farm households. The lack of integration of bio-physical and socio-economic knowledge in technology targeting, limits the large-scale adoption by diaspora of farmers specially marginalized and women farmers. Therefore, development and targeting portfolios of CSAPs require in-depth understanding of the diversity of farming practices, and assessment of various interventions on the adaptive capacity of farming community as well as food security. Designing and applying adapted household survey to understand the diversity of farming systems in each location. The major cropping systems in Andhra Pardesh and Telanana, India are maize-maize and rice-maize where the farmer’s field size is very small comparatively. Conducted meetings and trainings with group of farmers in selected villages through demonstration of different interventions and distributed required implements to small holding farmers, trained them about LCC, GS and MNBS by experts. Also visited progressive farmers’ field and planned about the rabi sowing crop and shared to the data collection sheet and urea calculator.Item Informe: Taller Creación de Contenidos Sobre y Para la Agroecología en Plataformas de Comunicación Digital(Report, 2021-11-25) Daza, Paola; Le Coq, Jean-FrançoisEste informe es resultado del taller: “Desarrollo de Contenidos Sobre y Para la Agroecología en Plataformas de Comunicación Digital”. El objetivo principal del taller era el de brindar a las organizaciones aliadas del proyecto, las herramientas para visibilizar sus contenidos diferenciados en agroecología en los entornos digitales de diferentes plataformas de comunicación.Item Hacia una hoja de ruta para el escalamiento de la Agroecología en Ecuador: un análisis de las políticas, programas y factores limitantes actuales(Report, 2021-11-23) Valdivia Díaz, M.; Le Coq, Jean-FrançoisEl presente estudio nuestro objetivo es comprender los retos y las oportunidades que tiene la agroecología para ser promovida desde las políticas públicas. En esta investigación, propone una hoja de ruta que logre evidenciar las problemáticas para lograr el escalamiento de la agroecología desde diversos tipos factores. Esta propuesta de hoja de ruta tiene como objetivo ser un documento de base para generar diversos caminos para hacer escalar la agroecología, desde la incidencia política a través de los diversos sectores ministeriales, así como en diversas escalas de gobierno (municipal, regional y nacional), de igual forma que pueda ser considerado por otros actores de la sociedad civil, productores y organizaciones de base.Item Training of ag-extension agents and farmers on validated best-bet CSA packages for crop, forage, and small ruminant value chains to manage climate and non-climate risks in Southern and Central Highlands of Ethiopia(Report, 2021-10-01) Ambaw, Gebermedihin; Nigussie, Abebe; Terefe, Hailu; Habtegiorgis, KebedeThe CGIAR research program on climate change, Agriculture and food security (CCAFS) organized training on validated best-bet CSA packages for crop, forage, and small ruminant value chains to manage climate and non-climate risks in collaboration with The Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Africa RISING, ICARDA, Inter Aide, Debre Berhan University, Areka Agricultural Research Center, and Ministry of Agriculture (MoA). The training was carried out between July 15-20, 2021 in Basona Werana and July 31 – August 11, 2021, in Doyogena climate smart landscapes. The training targeted smallholder farmers, and early career experts (i.e. technicians and development agents) from the national partners including district agricultural offices, Areka agricultural research center, Debre Birhan University, and Inter Aide. A total of 443 farmers (87 female and 356 male) and 64 early career experts (8 females and 56 males) were included in the training in both climate smart landscapes. For farmers, the training was given in the local languages. The training covered the following topics: climate change and its risk and impact on agriculture, restoring Agroecology and sustainable benefits, adaptation and mitigation strategies, including soil and water management interventions, on-farm integration of highvalue agroforestry trees, animal feed/fodder, reforestation at a larger landscape scale, nutrient management, and small scale solar-based irrigation. In addition, the sustainable benefits of Agroecology and the concept of community-based breeding programs to improve small ruminant genetics were covered. Training on the use of calculators to estimate greenhouse gas emissions is given to the technicians. Farmers and technicians, development agents, and experts were trained on how to collect data within CBBP cooperatives, evaluation of cooperative breeding sires, pregnancy test, mass synchronization, artificial insemination, principle, and method of breeding ram selection, ranking, and certification, utilization of forage legumes, use of alternative feed resources, ewe flushing, fattening and on the characteristics and controlling methods of small ruminant pests and diseases.Item Hacia una hoja de ruta para el escalamiento de la Agroecología en Perú: un análisis de las políticas, programas y factores limitantes actuales(Report, 2021-11-23) Valdivia Díaz, M.; Le Coq, Jean-FrançoisEn el presente estudio se presenta un análisis de los retos y las oportunidades que tiene la agroecología para ser promovida desde las políticas públicas. Esta investigación, propone una hoja de ruta para evidenciar las problemáticas en torno a el escalamiento de la agroecología desde diversos tipos factores. Esta propuesta de hoja de ruta tiene como objetivo ser un documento de base para generar diversos caminos para hacer escalar la agroecología, desde la incidencia política a través de los diversos sectores ministeriales, así como en diversas escalas de gobierno (municipal, regional y nacional), de igual forma que pueda ser considerado por otros actores de la sociedad civil, productores y organizaciones de base.Item DESARROLLO DE DATOS PARA LA PLATAFORMA DE ACOPIO Y PROCESAMIENTO, ESPACIO HONDURAS(Report, 2021-11-21) Sánchez-Arita, SergioEl informe expone de los Datos que podrán integrar la plataforma de acopio y procesamiento de información, Espacio Honduras; desarrollado por la Alianza Bioversity International & Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) y el CCAFS.Item Youth Farmer’s Training : Business Model for Scaling Happy Seeder Technology(Report, 2021-10-29) Jat, Mangi Lal; Bijarniya, Deepak; Kalvaniya, Kailash C.; Choudhary, Kajod Mal; Kumar, Yogesh; Rana, Dharamvir SinghRural youth continue to face challenges related to unemployment, underemployment and poverty. Despite the agricultural sector’s ample potential to provide income-generating opportunities for rural youth, challenges related specifically to youth participation in this sector and more importantly options for overcoming them are not extensively documented. For youth to successfully participate in the agricultural sector, access to both information and education are crucial. In addition to knowledge of agricultural production and processing techniques and the relative know-how, young farmers need access to information about finance, land and markets.The training strongly emphasized participatory extension principles and entrepreneurship as means of increasing farm productivity amongst young farmers. Utilizing field mechanization as a means of optimizing the number of youth engaged in face-to-face learning, past workshops were held for young farmers that served to provide space for interactions with experts, discuss methods for improving delivery of services, and learn a new component of agribusiness and entrepreneurship with the intent of transferring this information to more youth farmers in a similar way.Item Role of Women in Crop Residue Management for Better Health(Report, 2021-03-08) Jat, Mangi Lal; Rana, Meenakshy; Bijarniya, Deepak; Kalvaniya, Kailash C.; Kumar, Yogesh; Rana, Dharamvir SinghThe role of women has changed dramatically from stone age to contemporary global society. The process of Industrialization, modernization and globalization show its deep impact on human society all over the world. The role and responsibilities of women have attained new definition and perspective. On the encouraging side, in the Northwest India, there has been a relatively increase in economic participation in the past one decade. Development programmes and policies have largely tended to focus on women in isolation with little effort to work alongside men and include them in restructuring social relations to mainstream gender. If women’s empowerment is to be achieved and sustained in agriculture, it must be complemented by programmes that include working with men to bring about the desired structural change. The training workshop was conducted to motivate the women folks of Haryana villages to participate in the agricultural activities, support to bring change and updating in farming practices by adopting new trending mechanization and techniques like Happy Seeder, Green Seeker, Soil Humidity Meter, adopt techniques like ‘Lekha-Jhokha’ for better farming practices, and to earn profits by their contributions. The main focus was to make aware women to participate in no burning of rice crop residue, so that they can influence in reducing the air pollution and strengthen the Conservation Agriculture (CA), to enhance the field nutrients by sustainable agricultural practices.Item Increasing Adaptive Capacity of Farmers to Climate Change thru Climate Smart Villages in India(Report, 2019-03) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food SecurityITC Limited and CGIAR research program on climate change, agriculture and food security (CCAFS) partnering to develop resilient agriculture production system in the ITC’s outreach areas across India. CGIAR’s Climate Smart Village (CSV) approach was integrated into the ITC’s Mission Sunehra Kal (MSK) program. This CSV-MSK integration program focus on building resilient agriculture production system through promotion of a range of climate smart agricultural technologies and practices including e-Choupal, wasteland development, soil and moisture conservation, livestock development, health and education, and gender and social inclusion program of MSK. The Mission now embraces a community of thousands of villages that are influential nuclei of change in rural localities spread over 12 States across India. By linking knowledge and technology transfer to the creation of economic and social capacity, ITC aims to bring a unique dynamic to rural development, food security and poverty alleviation. The present report highlights the work carried out under this program.Item Report on regional learning platform webinar series(Report, 2020-08-01) Cramer, Laura K.The Programme for Climate-Smart Livestock Systems (PCSL) is an initiative designed to enable key actors in the livestock sector to increasingly include climate change adaptation and mitigation in their farming practices, sector strategies and investment projects. PCSL is financed by GIZ and commissioned by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. GIZ has commissioned the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the World Bank to implement the programme activities. ILRI’s programme activities are based in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. One of the activities included the creation of national Learning Platforms for the purposes of information exchange and dissemination of research findings. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions on travel and in-person gatherings, ILRI adjusted its plans for the national Learning Platforms. ILRI organized a series of three online meetings held with stakeholders from all three countries over a three-week period starting on 30th July 2020.Item Project completion report: Scaling up resilient agricultural practices, technologies and services in the vulnerable areas of India(Report, 2020-10-12) Chanana, Nitya; Khatri-Chhetri, Arun; Pimpale, Anil; Joshi, Rajashree; Saini, Sakshi; Shirsath, Paresh Bhaskar; Joshi, Arun Kumar; Aggarwal, Pramod K.USAID/ India partnered with Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), South Asia (CCAFS), for a four-year intervention (October 2016 –September 2020) to scale out climate-resilient agricultural interventions through the Climate Smart Village (CSV) approach. The focus was on a basket of synergistic options, rather than on single technology to improve cropping and livestock development in targeted areas as a means of enhancing resilience to climate variability. CCAFS provides technical leadership and overall guidance to BAIF (an NGO) which was implementing the project on the ground. The project demonstrated a portfolio of climate resilient technologies, practices and services in 75 villages of Uttar Pradesh (Mathura district), Bihar (Nalanda district) and Madhya Pradesh (Betul district). Present report, attempts to bring out the key interventions and resulting outcomes of the project as viewed from a resilience lens.Item Project Completion Report of Index-Based Agriculture Insurance in Haor Area(Report, 2020-10-30) Amarnath, Giriraj; Ahmed, Syed Moinuddin; Pavez, Ali T.Several integrated plans and activities have been going on for a while now, at the direction of Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh under the supervision of the Financial Institutions Department of the Ministry of Finance to stand by the farmers who are at risk of financial loss in flood-prone Haor areas. To transform these plans into reality, with the extensive support from Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority of Bangladesh (IDRA), Green Delta Insurance Company Limited and its distribution channel partner OXFAM Bangladesh and local associate Sancred Welfare Foundation (SWF) have insured 316 Farmers of Tahirpur, Sunamganj area under Index-Based Crop Insurance as a pilot basis. Shadharan Bima Corporation has also piloted a project in Mithamoin Haor area to complement the pilot initiative and as per direction from the authorities. After almost a month of running this pilot, monitoring-updating-analyzing satellite and ground level data, Green Delta paid a claim of BDT 150,000 to 316 Boro Rice farmers, which GDIC considers as their success of this pilot phase. GDIC also suggests to replicate the pilot and carry out the success throughout the country while implementing Index-Based Crop Insurance in naturally vulnerable and mostly exposed areas of Bangladesh to strengthen the financial stability of farmers and increase the contribution of agriculture in the economy and national income. To implement Index Based Crop Insurance across the country the government needs to develop a number of high end technology and infrastructure to support them. Satellite remote sensing, real time data provider weather stations, digitalization of transaction methods, utilizing local authorities as structural distribution channel etc. are the most important initiatives that needs to be undertaken besides building stronger collaborations between respective departments and ministries of the government to get the most out this project.Item Value Chain Analysis of Rice Seed and Potato Tuber Seed in Vietnam: Case study in four provinces from North, Central and South(Report, 2019-12-20) Ngo, Doan Dam; Baruah, Sampriti; Mohanty, SamarenduThe seed value chain analysis study on rice and potato was conducted during August to December 2019 to assess the composition, distinctiveness, strengths and weaknesses of Vietnam’s seed sector. The study examines relevant secondary sources of information and primary data obtained through field surveys using focus group discussion and key informant interviews in four provinces, namely: Bac Ninh and Thai Binh in the north; Quang Binh in the center and Can Tho in the south. The study results indicate that Vietnam has developed a robust seed sector with the involvement of diverse stakeholders throughout the seed value chain of rice and potato. The seed sector has contributed significantly to the success of Vietnam crop production over the past three decades. However, the existing seed sector has also shown many weak areas that need to be addressed for growth of crop production with increased efficiency, innovation, diversification and value addition. To support this goal, the study suggests several interventions and technological improvements in crop breeding, seed production and seed use especially for inbred rice, hybrid rice and potato. The study also proposes a detailed survey and analysis of Vietnam seed legislation to help make the seed sector more dynamic.Item Climate Risk Mapping in the Philippines for Sub-National Targeting and Prioritization for Crop Diversification to Increase Resilience of the Agricultural Sector(Report, 2020-01-10) Bragais, Milben; Mohanty, Samarendu; Baruah, SampritiThis study aimed to map “municipality-level” coverage of all high risk zones in the Philippines in high resolution using a compilation of official hazard and available socio-economic dataset to support climate change adaptation through agricultural diversification. The approach focused on assessing the risk of climate-related impacts (hazards) that may negatively affect agricultural communities. Thus, high-risk zones to climate change, variability and extremes was assessed and mapped in all municipalities in the Philippines using spatial modeling and statistical analysis of climate hazards and poverty incidence. The analyses focused on key climate risk that threatens the productivity of agricultural commodities in the Philippines at the municipal resolution where significant decision making and planning takes place, especially in the agricultural sector.Item Policy Advocacy for a Climate Smart Food System in South East Asia: Seed Systems Research Study(Report, 2020-03-01) Tiongco, Marites M.; Baruah, Sampriti; Mohanty, SamarenduThis study investigated the various aspects of seed systems of climate resilient root and tuber crops, which includes seed value chain, seed replacement and certification procedure, varietal release process, and seed trade and market, in the Philippines. The study focused on three most important root and tuber crops of cassava, sweetpotato and potato. The findings of the study will be helpful to identify challenges and opportunities to improve efficiency of seed systems to accelerate adoption of climate-resilient crops. Value chain analysis approach to map the interaction among stakeholders involved in the seed production activities and trade, and Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) analysis to assess the overall performance of the seed value chain were used as methodology. Data collected are from secondary sources and primary data using focus group discussion and key informant interview.