Climate Smart Agriculture

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an integrative approach to address these interlinked challenges of food security and climate change, that explicitly aims for three objectives:

(1) sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, to support equitable increases in farm incomes, food security and development;

(2) adapting and building resilience of agricultural and food security systems to climate change at multiple levels;

(3) reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture (including crops, livestock and �sheries).

CSA invites to consider these three objectives together at di�erent scales - from farm to landscape – at di�erent levels - from local to global - and over short and long time horizons, taking into account national and local speci�cities and priorities

In this video Leslie Lipper, Senior Environmental Economist with FAO, elaborates on the need for a climate smart approach to production, what that means and examples of how this approach has worked.