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Proyecto

Climate and nutrition smart villages as platforms to address food insecurity in Myanmar
 

Myanmar
Identificador del Proyecto
108748
Total del financiamiento
CAD 727,860.00
Funcionario del IDRC
Annie Wesley
Estado de Proyecto
Completed
Fecha de finalización
Duración
36 meses

Programas y alianzas

Agricultura y seguridad alimentaria

Principales instituciones

Líder del proyecto:
Wilson Barbon
Philippines

Resumen

Myanmar is at risk from a wide range of natural hazards, including cyclones, floods, and droughts. These risks are especially challenging for poor rural women and children, who suffer even more from hunger, food insecurity, and a lack of adequate health services.Más información

Myanmar is at risk from a wide range of natural hazards, including cyclones, floods, and droughts. These risks are especially challenging for poor rural women and children, who suffer even more from hunger, food insecurity, and a lack of adequate health services. Since these risks differ across agro-ecosystems in the country, it is crucial that adaptation measures recognize the value of targeted, location-specific, community-based strategies and processes.

Community-based adaptation approaches have been tested in the Philippines for the past three years and are currently being mainstreamed via national government processes. This project builds on lessons from these methodological, institutional, and model-building research efforts leveraging the linkages between agriculture, climate change, and nutrition.

The goal of this project is to identify and scale optimal climate-smart agriculture practices and interventions suitable for the four major agro-ecological regions of Myanmar: the central dry zone, the mountain uplands, the upland-plateau, and the delta.

Using participatory research methods, the study, implemented by the New York City-based International Institute for Rural Reconstruction, will assess a portfolio of low-cost technologies and interventions in selected locations that serve as Climate Smart Villages. Towards the end of the project, scalable models will lead to guidelines for promoting a number of proven approaches that farmers can select for their specific agro-ecological zones.

Publicaciones

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Brief
Idioma:

Inglés

Resumen

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 three-year project saw villagers across CSVs organize themselves into groups to address climate-related risks in their communities. It has helped improve the capacity of villagers in adapting to climate change impacts. As well, groups that emerged from CSVs have become critical platforms for innovation.

Autores
Myae, Chan
Study
Idioma:

Inglés

Resumen

Sakta village is located in the Hakha Township, Chin State, which is one of the least developed areas of Myanmar with the highest poverty rate of all regions. Unprecedented extreme rainfalls have caused serious landslides. Most of the agricultural lands in Sakta village are rainfed uplands where communities still practice shifting cultivation. Climate Smart Agriculture options are very locally specific and the options vary depending on agro-ecological zones and local culture. Some Indigenous practices which communities are using traditionally are already climate smart and just need to be refined or enriched.

Autores
Myae, Chan
Study
Idioma:

Inglés

Resumen

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. Food insecurity is a primary constraint for Dry Zone communities, where water is scarce, vegetation cover is thin, and soil is degraded due to severe erosion. The situation is characterized by a reliance on market purchase for food access in a context of low, undiversified, agriculture-based incomes, high debts, and reliance on credit.

Autores
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Report
Idioma:

Inglés

Resumen

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. This could include small livestock, aquaculture, and homestead intensification. Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) demonstrate community-based adaptation in agriculture in different agroecological zones in Myanmar.

Autores
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR)
Study
Idioma:

Inglés

Resumen

Although agriculture is the major subsistence livelihood, the harshness of climate conditions including low and unpredictable annual rainfall are most serious limiting factors for HteePuvillage. Nyaung U has the lowest annual rainfall among dry zones of Myanmar. Diversification and intensification are key elements in the climate smart agriculture (CSA) strategy. Many households have been introduced to three types of pulses (Lab Lab, Lima bean, and cowpea) which have local market potential. Future work will include enrichment planning of community forests with multiple use tree and grass species to serve as “banks” in case of long droughts.

Autores
Myae, Chan
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