This report explores current approaches to monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation projects and specifically how food security outcomes are being addressed. It gives six key recommendations:

Agree on a common framework or outcome pathway with clear and agreed outcomes. A common framework keeps all stakeholders focused on the desired outcomes, as well as the best approach to evaluating successful adaptation. 
Use scenarios to handle the necessary planning under uncertainty, combined with ex-ante assessments of adaptation investments and interventions to identify robust strategies.
Engage in on-going monitoring using a clear ‘logic’ model to track progress of the ‘robust strategies’ on the ground. Ensure that the logic model is explicit about what constitutes successful adaptation for the outcome pathway.
Take a learning approach to monitoring and evaluation with ‘stakeholders’ at multiple institutional levels.
Encourage data sharing across projects doing monitoring and evaluation of adaptation – there is a growing consensus around priority interventions and we have evidence about the success and impact of agriculture and food security interventions on key outcomes.
Develop and use a tool for managing or evaluating impact given inevitable tradeoffs among food system outcomes.