The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities
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...
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| author | Barbon, Wilson John Myae, Chan Vidallo, Rene R. Thant, Phyu Sin Zhang, Yuntian Monville-Oro, Emilita Gonsalves, Julian Francis |
| author_browse | Barbon, Wilson John Gonsalves, Julian Francis Monville-Oro, Emilita Myae, Chan Thant, Phyu Sin Vidallo, Rene R. Zhang, Yuntian |
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| 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1194122025-10-26T13:02:25Z The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities Barbon, Wilson John Myae, Chan Vidallo, Rene R. Thant, Phyu Sin Zhang, Yuntian Monville-Oro, Emilita Gonsalves, Julian Francis agriculture climate change food security covid-19 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. 2022 2022-04-28T12:58:47Z 2022-04-28T12:58:47Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119412 en Open Access Elsevier 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. |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate change food security covid-19 Barbon, Wilson John Myae, Chan Vidallo, Rene R. Thant, Phyu Sin Zhang, Yuntian Monville-Oro, Emilita Gonsalves, Julian Francis The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities |
| title | The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities |
| title_full | The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities |
| title_fullStr | The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities |
| title_short | The mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the Myanmar rural communities |
| title_sort | mitigating role of climate smart villages to the impacts of covid 19 pandemic in the myanmar rural communities |
| topic | agriculture climate change food security covid-19 |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119412 |
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