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

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Title The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities
 
Creator Barbon, Wilson John
Myae, Chan
Vidallo, Rene
Thant, Phyu Sin
Zhang, Yuntian
Monville-Oro, Emilita
Gonsalves, Julian
 
Subject agriculture
climate change
food security
covid-19
 
Description Climate 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.
 
Date 2022-04-12
2022-04-28T12:58:47Z
2022-04-28T12:58:47Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Barbon 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.
2666-0490
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119412
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100152
PII-FP2_CSAScaling
PII_SEA_CSVscaling
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 100152
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source Current Research in Environmental Sustainability