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This compilation of stories from Myanmar’s climate smart villages (CSV) provides a glimpse into how individual households are affected by CSVs. At least 600 smallholder farming households have benefitted. They received resources to implement and test adaptation options, with enhanced learning through training, workshops, and opportunities to engage with other farmers and organizations.

This report provides a background assessment of Htee Pu village in Nyaung Oo township, in the Dry Zone of Myanmar. Main economic activities are subsistence farming such as rice paddy, sesame, pigeon pea, groundnut, and small-scale livestock rearing. Irregular farm incomes limit the purchase and effective use of quality inputs, including seed, fertilizer, pesticide, and labor.

The farmer learning sessions are interventions directed at increasing the knowledge and skills of target farmers in the climate smart villages (CSV) about climate smart practices in agriculture production. These sessions will support farmers as they innovate, test and learn from the various climate smart agriculture (CSA) options they previously identified. Learning session topics include: 1) What is Climate Change? 2. What causes Climate Change? 3. What is greenhouse gases (GHG)? 4.

The Ma Sein Climate Smart Village (CSV) is located in Ayeyarwady Region in the southwest part of Myanmar. Situated at the base of the delta, Bogale is susceptible to effects of sea level rise, flooding, and saline water intrusion. Farm households that do not diversify their income sources (having sole reliance on rice-based agriculture) are more vulnerable. Diversification of alternative livelihoods is a key strategy for enhancing adaptive capacities.

Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) demonstrate community-based adaptation in agriculture in different agroecological zones in Myanmar. The aim of this presentation “primer” is to provide background information on the agriculture, livelihoods, nutrition, gender, and climate change context of each CSV in its regional context.

Research findings indicate the importance of land tenure, poverty levels and specific climate risks and vulnerabilities in implementing the climate smart villages (CSV) approach in Myanmar. The “portfolio approach” to adaptation is about presenting a menu of options that households can choose to implement or not depending on their capacity. Poverty and wealth levels affect adaptation, influencing adoption choices.

The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) and its partners will study a network of Climate Smart Village (CSV) platforms that are implementing community-based adaptation (CBA) processes. These can influence potential next users including the government. This research aims to build on gender sensitive, nutrition-friendly, community-based adaptation (CBA) and local-level scaling-out of climate smart agriculture (CSA).

This primer (in English and Burmese) presents the Climate Smart Village (CSV) approach to community interventions for enhancing rural livelihoods. CSVs provide venues where stakeholders collectively participate in program/project planning and implementation to generate practical adaptation and mitigation options to improve food security, nutrition and climate resilience.

In KyaungTaung village (Shan State, Myanmar) all households are engaged in agriculture. Water scarcity is a significant factor hampering the community to ensure their own food security and other aspects of their livelihoods. There is lack of access to public or private extension services, which has led to inappropriate cultivation practices (shifting cultivation/slash and burn).

In 2016 Myanmar Climate Smart Agriculture Strategy was launched towards building resilience in agriculture. Climate Smart Villages (CSV) demonstrate community-based adaptation in agriculture in different agroecological zones in Myanmar. This report provides background information regarding the agriculture, livelihoods, nutrition, gender and climate change context of Saktha village in Chin State.

This collection of modules is developed to guide field implementers in facilitating nutrition education sessions linking agriculture and nutrition. Malnutrition is the final outcome of a combination of determinants clustered into food, health, and care; it requires responses from an array of sectors: food security; public health; water, sanitation and hygiene; and social protection.

The presentation provides background to Myanmar’s agricultural economy and the men and women who grow and process food. Climate change vulnerability adds to the instability of food security and human nutrition. A pilot project for four “climate smart villages” (CSV) is testing and developing technical, social, and institutional adaptation innovation using community-based adaptation approaches.

Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) demonstrate community-based adaptation in agriculture in different agroecological zones in Myanmar. The aim of this presentation “primer” is to provide background information on the agriculture, livelihoods, nutrition, gender, and climate change context of each CSV in its regional context and present processes for outreach and “outscale” of CSV innovations. Water is scarce in the dry zone with ongoing priorities for human and livestock use.

Food insecurity in the Chin highland region is mostly due to reduction of crop yield resulting from land degradation, reduced soil fertility, and weed infestation. Climate change is expected to worsen soil fertility as organic matter diminishes under high temperatures. Free grazing in summer further degrades farms. In the Saktta Climate Smart Village (CSV), new corn and upland rice varieties derived from the Aungban Research Station were tested and found promising.

The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) studied how a network of Climate Smart Villages (CSV) in Myanmar might serve as platforms to help implement community-based adaptation (CBA) processes and increase food security. These education modules are part of the outputs of this project, building on gender sensitive, nutrition-friendly, community-based adaptation (CBA) and local-level scaling-out of climate smart agriculture (CSA).

The main livelihood activity of Ma Sein village is agriculture – primarily rice cultivation. The Ayeyarwaddy Delta of southern Myanmar where Ma Sein village lies, is a fragile and an intricate ecosystem of mangrove swamps and tidal estuaries. Poor water control and drainage contribute to periodic flooding and crop losses. This report provides a background assessment of agricultural practices, food security, nutrition, livelihoods and climate change risks and impacts for this deltaic region.

The paper provides an overview of village crops: corn, rice, cowpeas, sorghum, soybeans, vegetable varieties, and fruits. Livestock and fishery activity are also reported on.

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