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Terminal evaluation of the project "Strengthening agroclimatic monitoring and information systems to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in the Lao People's Democratic Republic"

Project code: GCP/LAO/021/LDF - GEF ID 5462

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 98 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Series title Project Evaluation Series

Series number No. 15/2024

Synopsis (short abstract) The project focused on technical innovation to strengthen efforts to build climate resilience of smallholder producers. The project, beyond original expectations, generated an agroecological zoning modelling tool (pyAEZ) of global relevance. The project achieved many of its outputs, some of which went beyond the indicators and exceeded targets for coverage. Securing co-financing (and engaging other actors in complementary efforts) was very successful. The network of weather stations was improved along with establishing a laboratory for calibration of the sensors of the automatic weather station (AWS), and the Lao Climate Service for Agriculture (LaCSA), a decision-making tool developed by the project to provide agrometeorological advisories and early warnings. The project was found to have made a significant contribution to strengthening agroclimatic monitoring and information systems to improve adaptation to climate change and food security.

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FAO. 2024. Terminal evaluation of the project “Strengthening agroclimatic monitoring and information systems to improveadaptation to climate change and food security in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic - Project code: GCP/LAO/021/LDF - GEF ID 5462. Project Evaluation Series, 15/2024. Rome.


https://doi.org/10.4060/cd0398en

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