Stakeholders prioritization of climate-smart agriculture interventions: Evaluation of a framework

This study presents a framework of climate smart agriculture (CSA)  priority setting methodology for identifying and developing portfolios of options based on local stakeholders' responses to CSA technologies. The methodology uses a participatory prioritization framework which is widely used in the development sector  This study has modified the existing participatory framework to indicator based prioritization of CSA technologies. The modified framework integrates CSA indicators with technology implementation feasibility, potential barriers of technology adoption, incentive mechanisms to promote the selected CSA technologies and role of different organization (government, community and private sector) to facilitate scaling out of CSA technologies. The objectives of this study were to (i) identify CSA interventions based on climatic risks and agricultural production systems; (ii) evaluate implementation feasibility of CSA interventions, (iii) identify barriers associated with adoption and suitable incentive mechanisms to scale out CSA to reach a scale