The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) launched the project “Innovation platforms to improve the adoption of climate-smart technologies by smallholder family farmers: pilots in Honduras and Colombia,” together with Colombia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) and Honduras’ Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG). The Directorate of Agricultural Science and Technology (DICTA) also takes part in Honduras, and an educational institution joined in Colombia. The initiative works in Popayán (Colombia) and in Honduras’ Dry Corridor, where networks of NGOs, CIAT and farmer groups are already testing adaptation practices.

The goal is to strengthen these networks to promote Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). CSA seeks to improve productivity and food security, increase adaptive capacity and limit greenhouse gas emissions at the same time. The project builds on a key idea: adopting new technologies is not a linear diffusion process but one based on new learning and the creative participation of farmers, technicians and researchers. It will therefore develop and test methodologies to help these platforms work more effectively.

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