Presented in September 2015 at CSV Workshop, India, by Andy Jarvis

1. 1
Led by
FP1
1 Improved technologies, practices and
portfolios for CSA that meet the needs
of farmers, including women and
marginalised groups
2. Methods and approaches for
equitable local adaptation planning and
governance, including transformative
options
3. Innovative incentives and
mechanisms for scaling up and out that
address the needs of farmers, including
women and marginalised groups.
What is expected?

2. 2
Objectives
• Define a common vision of what CSVs are, their purpose to CCAFS and its
partners, and direction moving forwards
• Reflect on lessons learnt from different CCAFS regions and a set of best
practices going forwards
• Identify opportunities for harmonization of methodologies to enable cross
regional analyses and global learning
• Respond to emerging CCAFS external evaluation recommendations on
CSVs and incorporate adjustments into Flagship projects during Extension
and Phase 2

3. 3
The approach we use, and what makes it
different:
• Integration of technologies, practices and services, examining how
token technologies function in a broader ecosystem of approaches
• Built on a participatory approach to understand adoption barriers, farmer
acceptance
• Wider lens of evaluation, going beyond productivity to also incorporate
adaptation and mitigation
• Building of evidence for scale out, piggy-backing the opportunities that
climate context adds to a traditional technology roll out approach (e.g. using
climate finance, bundling with climate services amongst other things)

4. 4
Evaluation recommendations:
• Affirmation that CSVs is the local expression of climate smart
agriculture, building off of CSA as an integrating mechanism.
CSVs should be an integration vehicle and are largely achieving
this.
• Operationalisation of that concept is mixed across the portfolio of
projects, sites and regions.

5. 5
Headline recommendations:
• Consider broadening the concept to explicitly address rapid changes in
non climate drivers. More work on typologies of household types for
targeting to identify who the farmers of the future are, and invest in
them?
• In northern India the village is appropriate, in southern India the
watershed is the natural scale. Village is too narrow in many contexts.
• Mode of engagement mixed: Bottom-up versus top-down. More truly
participatory bottom up processes are needed.
• Questions whether CGIAR centres are truly collaborating within CSVs
and maximizing the integrative potential