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Climate-smart agriculture

This course equips extension officers, trainers and lead farmers in Myanmar and the wider CLMV region with the knowledge and practical tools to apply climate-smart agriculture to rice, upland crops and small-scale livestock. Learners will know how to assess climate risk, apply water-saving techniques, manage soil and resilient varieties, and use digital tools to support early warning.

7 chapters · 21 lessons
About 1.5 h
5 languages
Bilingual certificate

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Nông dân kiểm tra ruộng lúa và hệ thống tưới tại vùng khô hạn miền Trung Myanmar

What you will learn

Explain the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture and apply them to specific local farming conditions.
Carry out a simple climate risk assessment and build an adaptive cropping calendar for the main crop.
Apply water-saving techniques, soil management and resilient variety selection suited to drought or flooding.
Use digital tools and early warning systems to support seasonal farming decisions.

Course description

Smallholder farmers in Myanmar, especially in the central Dry Zone and the Ayeyarwady Delta, are facing increasingly visible changes in rainfall, temperature and the frequency of disasters. Similar changes are occurring in Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, where agriculture still feeds most of the rural population. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps farmers maintain productivity while building resilience to climate shocks.

The course has seven chapters, moving from why CSA matters, through assessing climate risk and building an adaptive cropping calendar, water-saving and drought- and flood-resilient techniques, soil and fertilizer management, resilient varieties and farm diversification, to the use of digital tools and early warning systems. Each chapter includes a video lecture, an in-depth reading and a short quiz.

The content is practice-oriented, grounded in the paddy rice, upland cropping and small-scale livestock systems common across the Mekong region, with concrete steps that farmers and extension officers can apply locally right away.