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Climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA): A tool for prioritizing context-specific climate smart agriculture technologies

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Title Climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA): A tool for prioritizing context-specific climate smart agriculture technologies
 
Creator Mwongera, Caroline
Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia
Twyman, Jennifer
Läderach, Peter
Ampaire, Edidah L.
Asten, Piet J.A. van
Twomlow, Stephen
Winowiecki, Leigh A.
 
Subject climate-smart agriculture
agriculture
data analysis
agricultura climáticamente inteligente
agricultura
análisis de datos
 
Description Approaches that aim to identify and prioritize locally appropriate climate smart agriculture (CSA) technologies will need to address the context-specific multi-dimensional complexity in agricultural systems. The climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA) is a mixed method approach that draws on participatory bottomup, qualitative, and quantitative tools to assess the heterogeneity of local contexts, and prioritize context-specific CSA options. This is an imperative if countries are to respond to the COP21 agreement and meet their intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs). The CSA-RA is designed to assess biophysical including climatic, socio-cultural, economic and technological characteristics at the household, farm and community/regional level. The CSA-RA employs gender-disaggregated methods, including gender differences in perceptions of climate change and its impacts. The CSA-RA combines common participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and rapid rural appraisal (RRA) tools into one methodology, that disaggregates the gender dimension, and includes resource mapping; climate calendars; historical calendars; cropping calendars; organization mapping; transect walks; key informant interviews; farmer interviews; and pairwise ranking matrix. The tool collects qualitative and quantitative data from various stakeholders (farmers, local leaders, researchers, local-level agricultural experts, private sector actors, donor organizations, and policy implementers), allowing expansive analysis, triangulation and validation. Application of the CSA-RA in Tanzania and Uganda reveals heterogeneity across the sites in terms of vulnerability, constraints and CSA priorities among different social groups (gender) and agro-ecological zones. Thus, the CSA-RA allows stakeholders to simultaneously take into account biophysical and socio-economic aspects to target and implement CSA.
 
Date 2017-02
2016-06-13T20:26:59Z
2016-06-13T20:26:59Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Mwongera, Caroline; Shikuku, Kelvin M.; Twyman, Jennifer; Läderach, Peter; Ampaire, Edidah; Van Asten, Piet; Twomlowd, Steve; Winowiecki, Leigh A.. 2016. Climate smart agriculture rapid appraisal (CSA-RA): A tool for prioritizing context-specific climate smart agriculture technologies. Agricultural Systems . 151: 192-203.
0308-521X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75715
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.05.009
http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HCFDU8
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 192-203
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source Agricultural Systems