The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Rural Reconstructionen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.countryMyanmar
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MM
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern AsiaSouth-eastern Asia
cg.creator.identifierWilson John Barbon: 0000-0002-5028-1774en
cg.creator.identifierPhyu Sin Thant: 0000-0001-9913-9392en
cg.creator.identifierJulian Gonsalves: 0000-0002-1457-2574en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100152en
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-FP2_CSAScalingen
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII_SEA_CSVscalingen
cg.issn2666-0490en
cg.journalCurrent Research in Environmental Sustainabilityen
cg.subject.ccafsCLIMATE-SMART TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICESen
cg.volume4en
dc.contributor.authorBarbon, Wilson Johnen
dc.contributor.authorMyae, Chanen
dc.contributor.authorVidallo, Rene R.en
dc.contributor.authorThant, Phyu Sinen
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Yuntianen
dc.contributor.authorMonville-Oro, Emilitaen
dc.contributor.authorGonsalves, Julian Francisen
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-28T12:58:47Zen
dc.date.available2022-04-28T12:58:47Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/119412
dc.titleThe mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communitiesen
dcterms.abstractClimate smart village approach is identified as an important strategy laid out in the Myanmar Climate Smart Agriculture Strategy (MCSAS, 2016) Four climate smart villages were established in 2017 to facilitate participatory action research to develop the CSV approach as well as to generate evidence of outcomes. The CSV approach is based on the principle of community-directed research process where community-members collaborate with an external researcher to investigate community challenges and their solutions. Like other countries in 2020, the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Myanmar implemented wide-scale national and local restrictions on mobility that impacted trade and business resulting to an economic slowdown. Rural communities dominated by smallholder agriculture in Myanmar are not spared from the negative impacts of these restrictions. This paper seeks to assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic to the 4 climate smart villages in Myanmar by analyzing household survey data (N = 527) collected in 2020 during the height of economic disruptions and comparing these data to the household survey conducted during the pre-pandemic period of 2018. Our analysis indicated that overall, the effect of the pandemic to agriculture production in 2020 production season in the 4 CSVs has been minimal as evidenced by the continued agriculture production at the same levels as the pre-pandemic conditions in 2018. The effects to household food security and diet diversity has been varied. Sakta village in Chin state in the highlands have demonstrated that diversified production systems enable them to achieve food security in the pandemic year of 2020.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBarbon WJ, Myae C, Vidallo R, Thant PS, Zhang Y, Monville-Oro E, Gonsalves J. 2022. The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 4:100152.en
dcterms.extent100152en
dcterms.issued2022en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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