Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa

Abstract This chapter focuses on the evaluation of adaptive capacities of community-level human systems related to agriculture and food security. It highlights findings regarding approaches and domains to monitor and evaluate behavioral changes from CGIAR’s research program on climate change, agr...

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Autores principales: Somda, Jacques, Zougmoré, Robert B., Sawadogo, Issa, Bationo, B. André, Buah, Saaka S.J., Tougiani, Abasse
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/79445
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author Somda, Jacques
Zougmoré, Robert B.
Sawadogo, Issa
Bationo, B. André
Buah, Saaka S.J.
Tougiani, Abasse
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Buah, Saaka S.J.
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Sawadogo, Issa
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Buah, Saaka S.J.
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description Abstract This chapter focuses on the evaluation of adaptive capacities of community-level human systems related to agriculture and food security. It highlights findings regarding approaches and domains to monitor and evaluate behavioral changes from CGIAR’s research program on climate change, agriculture and food security (CCAFS). This program, implemented in five West African countries, is intended to enhance adaptive capacities in agriculture management of natural resources and food systems. In support of participatory action research on climatesmart agriculture, a monitoring and evaluation plan was designed with the participation of all stakeholders to track changes in behavior of the participating community members. Individuals’ and groups’ stories of changes were collected using most significant change tools. The collected stories of changes were substantiated through field visits and triangulation techniques. Frequencies of the occurrence of characteristics of behavioral changes in the stories were estimated. The results show that smallholder farmers in the intervention areas adopted various characteristics of
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spelling CGSpace794452023-12-08T19:36:04Z Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa Somda, Jacques Zougmoré, Robert B. Sawadogo, Issa Bationo, B. André Buah, Saaka S.J. Tougiani, Abasse climate change monitoring evaluation behaviour agriculture food security Abstract This chapter focuses on the evaluation of adaptive capacities of community-level human systems related to agriculture and food security. It highlights findings regarding approaches and domains to monitor and evaluate behavioral changes from CGIAR’s research program on climate change, agriculture and food security (CCAFS). This program, implemented in five West African countries, is intended to enhance adaptive capacities in agriculture management of natural resources and food systems. In support of participatory action research on climatesmart agriculture, a monitoring and evaluation plan was designed with the participation of all stakeholders to track changes in behavior of the participating community members. Individuals’ and groups’ stories of changes were collected using most significant change tools. The collected stories of changes were substantiated through field visits and triangulation techniques. Frequencies of the occurrence of characteristics of behavioral changes in the stories were estimated. The results show that smallholder farmers in the intervention areas adopted various characteristics of 2017 2017-01-30T14:14:58Z 2017-01-30T14:14:58Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/79445 en Open Access Springer Somda J, Zougmore R, Sawadogo I, Buah S, Abasse T. 2017. Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa. Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development 255-269.
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monitoring
evaluation
behaviour
agriculture
food security
Somda, Jacques
Zougmoré, Robert B.
Sawadogo, Issa
Bationo, B. André
Buah, Saaka S.J.
Tougiani, Abasse
Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa
title Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa
title_full Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa
title_fullStr Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa
title_full_unstemmed Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa
title_short Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa
title_sort adaptation processes in agriculture and food security insights from evaluating behavioral changes in west africa
topic climate change
monitoring
evaluation
behaviour
agriculture
food security
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/79445
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