Testing a new model combining micro-finance and farmer training to upscale the adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices by small-scale farmers in developing countries

Abstract

This note introduces the climate-smart agriculture sustainable, productive, profitable, equitable and resilient (CSA-SuPER) research project implemented by a consortium comprising CARE International, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Sokoine University 1 See http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2016/02/25/a-year-in- the-lives-of-smallholder-farming-families for the numbers of farming households. of Agriculture (SUA), and Wageningen University and Research (WUR).