| Abstract: |
| The project Integrated agricultural technologies for enhanced adaptivecapacity and resilient livelihoods in climate-smart villages (CSVs) ofSoutheast Asia aims to provide climate-smart agriculture options to enhanceadaptive capacity and resilience among CSV farmers and stakeholders. Theproject is supported by a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan that has twobroad dimensions: a technical one that deals with the biophysical researchresults and a social one that deals with how they key actors involved in theresearch experience progress, costs and benefits, achievements and challenges.A first M&E field mission to Ma village, Vietnam, at the end of 2016 usedqualitative methods to assess initial progress of the social dimension. Mawomen and men farmers are satisfied with emerging results of most of theintroduced climate-smart practices and highly appreciative of the collaborativeapproach. Full adoption will increase efficiency of resource use within thefarm and could contribute to increased farm productivity and income ofhouseholds. However, in order to promote wide-scale adoption of thesepractices, a well-thought out-scaling strategy should be designed andimplemented. |
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