Smallholder agriculture is facing a myriad of challenges in the wake of a changing climate. Technologies, practices and processes for adaptation fao. In this section, the focus will be on how crop specific innovations can substantially contribute to climate smart agriculture. Climate smart agriculture csa is an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural systems to support food security under the new realities of climate change. Several initiatives on building resilience and climate smart agriculture.
The publication is an output of the project titled developing climate inclusive potential loss and damage assessment methodology for flood hazards. Csa is one of the 11 corporate areas of resource mo ilization under faos strategic o jectives. Fao, ministry of agriculture, livestock and fisheries state department of agriculture. Fao 2016 state of food and agriculture report climate change. The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climatesmart agriculture csa, its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Fao, ministry of agriculture, livestock and fisheries. Key message 1 agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of food security and climate change. The fao has defined climate smart agriculture is one that sustainably increases productivity, enhances resilience adaptation, reducesremoves greenhouse gases mitigation and enhances achievement of national food security and development goals. To counter this, several measures have been suggested in attempts to reduce the vulnerability of smallholder farmers who are the worst affected by changes in climate.
Climatesmart agriculture is an approach to help guide actions to transform and reorient agricultural systems to ef fectively and sustainably support development. Ccafs research on climatesmart technologies and practices addresses the challenge of how to transition to a climate smart agriculture csa at a large scale for enabling agricultural systems to be transformed and reoriented to support food security under the new realities of climate. The climate smart agriculture strategy for the sica region. The session also led to the development of the african climate smart agriculture. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural. Climatesmart agriculture project are malawi and zambia. Climatesmart agriculture sourcebook food and agriculture. Launched in 2010, the fao mitigation of climate change in agriculture micca programme is working to make agriculture more climate smart.
Climatesmart agriculture csa goes beyond new technologies and practices like drought resistant varieties or precision farming. Climatesmart agriculture indicators ix this report drew from contributions from a range of experts working on agriculture food security and climate change. These climate smart opportunities can be found through a range of different entry points. The food and agriculture organization fao of the united nations in 2010 at the hague conference on agriculture, food security and climate change defined climate smart agriculture as agriculture that would have three components. The primary aim of this piece is, therefore, to set out our call for journal contributions from interdisciplinary, crossscalar, and systemic approaches to the goal of designing climate smart food systems. Why climate smart agriculture, fisheries and forestry 3 overview agriculture has to address simultaneously three intertwined challenges. The workshop agreed that there is an urgent need to mainstream climate change education climate smart agriculture, and other issues, into the national diplomas available in all agricultural colleges.
Climate smart agriculture, as defined and presented by fao. Faoadapt promotes activities in agriculture, forestry and fisheries that enhance sustainable production while strengthening the resilience of agricultural. We argue here that these designs include and necessarily transcend climate smart agriculture. Climate smart agriculture csa is an approach to developing the technical, policy and investment conditions to achieve sustainable agricultural development for food security under climate change fao, 20. Climatesmart agriculture csa may be defined as an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural development under the new realities of climate change lipper et al. Facilitation unit the global alliance for climate smart agriculture. Developing climate smart agriculture is crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. Climate risks to cropping, livestock and fisheries are expected to soar in coming decades, particularly in lowincome countries where adap tive capacity is weaker. The world bank group wbg is currently scaling up climatesmart agriculture. Climatesmart agriculture csa is an integrative approach to address these interlinked challenges of food security and climate change, that explicitly aims for three objectives. How climate smart agriculture can help in countries where the economy is heavily based on agriculture, development of the agricultural sector is the most efficient poverty reduction measure. Fao, the tropical agricultural research and higher education center catie, the international center for tropical agriculture. Climatesmart agriculture sourcebook summary food and. The project approach taken is to develop a selection of climate smart agricultural.
Fao also defines csa as an as an agriculture that sustainably increases productivity. Climate smart agriculture in the african context prepared by. Managing landscapes for climatesmart agricultural systems. Crop production systems climate smart crop production contributes to food security, climate change adaptation and mitigation by. Kenya climate smart agriculture strategy kenya climate smart agriculture strategy 2 preface climate change has evolved from being simply an environmental problem to a major development challenge. Climate smart agriculture csa is an integrated approach to managing landscapes to help adapt agricultural methods, livestock and crops to the ongoing humaninduced climate change and, where. Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, to support equitable increases in farm incomes, food security and development. Climate smart agriculture building resilience to climate change. George owusu essegbey is the director of the science and technology policy research institute. Developing a climatesmart agriculture manual for agriculture. To achieve the multiple objectives of productivity and food security. Climate smart agriculture climate change food security agricultural.
Sound management of energy for climatesmart agriculture overview and key messages 9 5. Fao understands agriculture to comprise crop and livestock production, fisheries and aquaculture and forestry. The table below outlines these challenges and appropriate climate smart agricultural csa practices to counter them. November 2015 and february 2016 and the fao epic climate smart agriculture manual. Climate smart agriculture is a recent concept and approach launched by fao in 2010 in response to the growing need for a clear and coherent strategy for managing agriculture and food systems under climate change to reach food security and development objectives. It aims to achieve food security and broader development goals under a changing climate. Climate smart agriculture building resilience to climate. Climatesmart agriculture sourcebook acknowledgements the drafting of this sourcebook on climatesmart agriculture, forestry and fisheries has been a collaborative effort involving professionals from within several departments of fao and a variety of partner organizations. It is building a knowledge base on what it will take to put climatesmart agriculture into practice. Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes adapting and building resilience to climate change. The publication is an output of the project titled developing climate.
Fao, 2010 climate change causes some serious challenges to the agricultural sector and therefore to the national food security and development goals for grenada. Climate smart agriculture is a pathway towards development and food security built on three pillars. The global alliance for climatesmart agriculture gacsa. Pdf climate smart agriculture csa can be defined as sustainably increasing. This paper examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial. Climate smart agriculture csa considerations the climate smart agriculture csa concept reflects an ambition to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness.
Fao advocates for climate smart agriculture which sustainably increases productivity, resilience adaptation, reducesremoves ghgs mitigation, and enhances achievement of national food security and development goals. National climatesmart agriculture and food security. Climate smart disaster risk reduction interventions in agriculture sector flood hazard a practitioners handbook, asian disaster preparedness center. Climate smart agriculture contributes to a crosscutting range of development goals.
Annex i provides examples of fao methods and tools which can support national climatesmart agriculture. Key message 1 agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of food security and climate. Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, to support equitable increases in farm incomes, food security and development b. Climatesmart agriculture training manual for agricultural extension agents in kenya.
The countries of sica have seen in climate smart agriculture csa a comprehensive solution to improve income and productivity, increase resilience and capacities for climate change adaptation. Climatesmart agriculture csa is an integrative approach to address these interlinked challenges of food security and climate change, that explicitly aims for three objectives a. Adopting these agricultural practices that already exist and have multiple benefits for. Climate smart, sustainable agriculture gmo answers. However, despite these interventions not much improvement in agricultural. Part 1 examples of climatesmart production systems. Climatesmart agriculture csa considerations the climatesmart agriculture csa concept reflects an ambition to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness. In its climate change action plan, the world bank committed to working with countries to deliver climatesmart agriculture. The climatesmart agriculture approach promotes the development of the technical, policy and investment conditions to achieve sustainable agricultural development for food security. Climatesmart agriculture csa, as defined and presented by fao at the hague conference on agriculture, food security and climate change in 2010 is an approach to developing the technical, policy and investment conditions to achieve sustainable agricultural development for food security under climate change. Climatesmart agriculture food and agriculture organization of.