Training on Establishing Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) in Myanmar to Improve Food Security and Resilience in Agriculture

This training on establish Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) in Myanmar was a collaborative effort of the Food Security Working Group (FSWG) and the Myanmar Program of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction. This was supported in part by donors of the FSWG and the International Development Research Center-Canada through the 3-year action research project of IIRR-Myanmar in 4 CSVs. The overall goal of this training was to increase the understanding of the concepts, processes and tools in implementing of CSVs as an approach to build climate resilience among small-holder farmers, achieve nutrition security and gender equality in Myanmar. It was aimed for local NGOs and members of the Food Security Working Group (FSWG), Myanmar’s largest alliance of development organizations advocating for food security and sustainable livelihoods in Myanmar. This training was part of IIRR-Myanmar’s out-scaling pathway by engaging and building capacities of local civil societies to replicate the CSV approach as platforms to promote climate smart agriculture in Myanmar

The Promotion of Climate-Smart Villages to Support Community-Based Adaptation Programming in Myanmar

This report presents the highlights of a scoping study conducted by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) in Myanmar. The study was funded by CCAFS in support of a plan to test and develop climate-smart villages in Myanmar. In 2015, through the initiative of CCAFS and after consultations with various agencies, the Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation adopted the Myanmar Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategy (MCSAS). This document lays out climate change impacts to agriculture in the country in broad terms, as well as the vision and goals of making agriculture in Myanmar climate-smart

Diversification: Reducing risks, increasing incomes while enhancing adaptive capacities in the Ayeyarwady Delta

With support from IDRC and CCAFS Southeast Asia, IIRR and its local NGO partners is implementing Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) to demonstrate community-based adaptation in agriculture in different agroecological zones in Myanmar. This primer is based on IIRR baseline studies as well as desk research that IIRR commissioned to develop the profile of Ma Sein CSV. The purpose of this primer is to provide the reader background information as to the agriculture, livelihoods, nutrition, gender and climate change context of the CSV

Nurturing resilience in smallholder farming systems: Emerging insights from a Climate-Smart Village in Southern Shan State, Myanmar

The brief talks about the emerging insights from a Climate-Smart Village in Southern Shan State, Myanmar. It documents a range of coping strategies that help farmers deal with impacts of climate change

Restoring drylands, strengthening resilience: Insights from a Climate-Smart Village in Htee Pu, Nyaun Oo, Myanmar

The brief talks about the emerging insights from a Climate-Smart Village in Htee Pu, Nyaun Oo, Myanmar. It documents a range of strategies that help farming communities in the central dry zones of the country to cope with lower rainfall and other climate change impacts

Socio-technical methodologies in establishing climate smart villages in Myanmar as platform to promote climate smart agriculture

The paper provides some results of a three-year Climate smart villages (CSV) project in four ecological zones of Myanmar, involving four project villages. The agro-ecological context is primary, as effects of climate change are location specific. Community-based and needs driven approaches which feature increased levels of community participation and engagement are needed for scalable models. Climate smart villages (CSVs) are on-site, on-location platforms where discovery, learning and sharing happens. Designed to be low cost, they typically feature local teams and institutions in order to enhance their role as “lighthouses” to support wider uptake

Resource conservation in the uplands of Southern Shan: How climate smart agriculture can help.

With support from IDRC and CCAFS Southeast Asia, IIRR and its local NGO partners is implementing Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) to demonstrate community-based adaptation in agriculture in different agroecological zones in Myanmar. This primer is based on IIRR baseline studies as well as desk research that IIRR commissioned to develop the profile of Nyaung Shwe CSV. The purpose of this primer is to provide the reader background information as to the agriculture, livelihoods, nutrition, gender and climate change context of the CSV

Regenerating drylands in response to a changing climate

With support from IDRC and CCAFS Southeast Asia, IIRR and its local NGO partners is implementing Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) to demonstrate community-based adaptation in agriculture in different agroecological zones in Myanmar. This primer is based on IIRR baseline studies as well as desk research that IIRR commissioned to develop the profile of Nyaung Oo CSV. The purpose of this primer is to provide the reader background information as to the agriculture, livelihoods, nutrition, gender and climate change context of the CSV

Nurturing adaptation capacities in Chin highlands Lessons from Sakta: A Climate Smart Village in Myanmar

This primer showcases the lessons learned from implementing climate-smart agriculture in Sakta village in Chin State, Myanmar. Sakta village is one of the Climate-Smart Village project sites operated by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) and Karuna Mission Social Solidarity (KMSS Hakha)