Developing strategies to reduce the Living Income Gap – Scaling up the Climate-Smart Investment Pathway (Stepwise) for smallholder coffee farmers in Mount Elgon _Tracer II dataset

The project intends to build on the existing learnings from the Climate-Smart Investment Pathway (Stepwise) being tested in Mount Elgon, Uganda expanding the approach to include the concept of Living Income. More specifically, it attempts to develop a portfolio of Climate-Smart Agriculture strategies deriving a combination of Stepwise actions and activities articulated in the dimension of Living Income Gap reduction. Both IITA and Olam intend to jointly develop simple smallholder coffee farmer tailor-made solutions prioritising the most important activities for a coffee farming household from the view of reaching a living income. The project will identify the most cost-effective series of actions ensuring the most suitable Return on Investment, while demonstrating an improvement in closing the living income gap.

本项目拟依托乌干达埃尔贡山正在试点的逐步式气候智能投资路径（Climate-Smart Investment Pathway (Stepwise)）现有实践成果，将该方法拓展至纳入生计收入（Living Income）理念。具体而言，本项目旨在构建一套气候智能型农业（Climate-Smart Agriculture）策略组合，整合逐步式行动与相关活动，并围绕生计收入缺口（Living Income Gap）缩减维度进行精细化设计。国际热带农业研究所（IITA）与奥拉姆（Olam）拟联合开发面向小农咖啡种植户的简易定制化解决方案，以实现生计收入为目标，优先梳理咖啡种植家庭的核心生产活动。本项目将甄别最具成本效益的行动序列，以保障最优投资回报率（Return on Investment），同时证明其可有效缩小生计收入缺口。