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 different scales - from farm to landscape – at different levels - from local to global - and over short and long time horizons, taking into account national and local specifcities 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.