Farmers as envoys of climate-smart agriculture to villages in Southeast Asia

Abstract

A researcher discovers how farmers can be key agents to bringing about positive changes in their own villages, across landscapes. It was my first time to hear the term roving workshop, much more join one. While I have only the slightest idea of what’s being done in such an activity, my excitement was apparent. This opportunity came through a project which the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), my institution, implements under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Southeast Asia (CCAFS SEA). So, last 23-27 May 2016, together with 19 farmers from the Climate Smart Villages (CSVs) from Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR, we plied the route going to Ma CSV in Yen Bai province and My Loi CSV in Ha Tinh province