What Climate-Smart Villages Can Teach the World | World Food Programme USA
On the sidelines of the United Nations COP22 conference in Marrakech, Morocco, the World Food Programme (WFP) USA requested the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) to share its experiences about the Climate-Smart Village (CSV) approach. In an interview, Dr Robert Zougmoré, the Program Leader for the CCAFS West Africa region explained how the CSV approach offers a platform for rural communities to be aware and adopt climate-mart technologies and practices that could simultaneously increase agricultural productivity and livelihood income, improve their adaptive capacity to climate change while also mitigating its effects wherever possible.
In order to strengthen the resilience of the inhabitants of Daga Birame village in the Kaffrine region of Senegal, the CSV was established. Farmers in the Sahel region of Senegal are given modern technology in agriculture combined with traditional practices to cope with recurrent climatic and weather challenges.