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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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    2016-05
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    Mwongera, Caroline
    Shikuku, K.M.
    Twyman, Jennifer
    Läderach, Peter
    Ampaire, Edidah L.
    Asten, Piet J.A. van
    Twomlow, Stephen
    Winowiecki, Leigh A.
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    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.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.05.009
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/962
    Non-IITA Authors ORCID
    Kelvin Shikukuhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2290-074X
    Jennifer Twymanhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8581-5668
    Leigh Winowieckihttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5572-1284
    Peter Läderachhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8708-6318
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    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.05.009
    Agrovoc Terms
    Climate-Smart Agriculture; Agriculture; Data Analysis; Agricultura Climáticamente Inteligente; Agricultura; Análisis De Datos
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