Reporting 2021 Innovation #1911
Assessment tool to identify the effects of COVID-19 on food
security
Project Title: P1604 - Digitally integrated approaches for managing climate risk and increasing food
security
Description of the innovation: This tool (a monitoring survey), based on the 5Q methodology, was
developed with the aim to address the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic situation and some
climate shocks have had on farmers’ activities and households.
New Innovation: No
Stage of innovation: Stage 3: available/ ready Innovation type: Research and Communication
for uptake (AV) Methodologies and Tools
Geographic Scope: Multi-national Number of individual improvedlines/varieties: <Not Applicable>
Country(ies):
     ● Guatemala
     ● Honduras
     ● Colombia
Description of Stage reached: The survey has been successfully developed and has been applied
during 2020 in Climate-Smart Villages (CSV) and some territories where have LTACs work.
Name of lead organization/entity to take innovation to this stage: CIAT (Alliance) - Alliance of
Bioversity and CIAT - Regional Hub (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical)
Names of top five contributing organizations/entities to this stage:
     ● CASM - COMISIÓN DE ACCIÓN SOCIAL MENONITA
     ● ASORECH - ASOCIACIÓN REGIONAL CAMPESINA CHORTÍ
Milestones:
     ● Additional institutions or major initiatives mainstream climate risk management services,
incorporating CCAFS output. Services developed in prior years will be strengthened, scaled up,
evaluated.
Sub-IDOs:
     ● 2 - Reduced smallholders production risk
     ● 29 - Enhanced adaptive capacity to climate risks (More sustainably managed agro-ecosystems)
     ● 34 - Enhanced capacity to deal with climatic risks and extremes (Mitigation and adaptation
achieved)
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Reporting 2021 Innovation #1911
Contributing Centers/PPA partners:
     ● CIAT (Alliance) - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT - Regional Hub (Centro Internacional de
Agricultura Tropical)
Evidence link:
     ● http://bit.ly/covid19-5q-tree-questions-survey
Deliverables associated:
     ● D26788 - Food security in times of COVID-19 in Boyaca (https://tinyurl.com/ybmore9l)
     ● D26785 - Blogpost on how agroclimatic information helps fight COVID-19 in Latin America (Part
2) (https://tinyurl.com/y75apcwp)
     ● D26787 - Community diagnosis in times of COVID-19 in Honduras (https://tinyurl.com/yactcfw6)
     ● D27110 - Presentation on the importance of forecasts applied to the agricultural sector during
the current COVID-19 crisis (CA-COF) (https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/111461)
     ● D26784 - Blogpost on how agroclimatic information helps fight COVID-19 in Latin America (Part
1) (https://tinyurl.com/y7nav454)
     ● D26786 - Blogpost on how COVID-19 can be an opportunity to speed up the transformation of
agri-food systems (https://tinyurl.com/y7lhlv8b)
     ● D26944 - WMO bulletin article on climate services ecosystems in times of COVID-19
(https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/111389)
     ● D26775 - Monitoring the effects of COVID-19 on food security
(https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/110108)
Contributing CRPs/Platforms:
     ● CCAFS - Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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