Research and engagement for scaling climate-smart agriculture in Latin America

This project aims to develop activities at different scales that will guide CCAFS synthesis, engagement and support across the regional portfolio. Local activities are related to the implementation of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technological packages, as well as implementation of strategies to engage at community level in Latin America’s climate-smart villages (CSV) in order to create evidence to scale up and out the CSA approach through national and regional level stakeholders.

National and regional activities will include addressing priorities in the region, and context-specific actions and interactions with partners, governments and research centers will lead to the formulation and implementation of policies and strategies on climate change, agriculture and food security.

Policies

PRICCO is an instrument of planning and management that integrates multiple actors to define adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change impacts in the Orinoquia region of Colombia.
This document frames a new pathway in the agricultural sector of El Salvador, by establishing guidelines to move towards agriculture through climate-smart agriculture approach.
The policy includes strategic actions by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock for the sector 2019-2024, including increasing the climate resilience of the coffee sector, formulated with CCAFS's input
Informed investment of USD 2 million for a regional Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) strategy for Central America
Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees as an implementing tool of the Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Management in the Agriculture Sector and Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America and the Caribbean (2018–2030)
The Cauca Department Secretariat of Women, Colombia, has updated its Rural Women Policy to include climate change and variability and the role of women in addressing climate and environmental challenges.
Green Growth Policy of Colombia
This development plan includes climate-smart agriculture (ASAC in Spanish), as a mechanism to increase resilience of rural families in the context of climate change and variability.

Projets