Climate Smart Agriculture

Overview

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

The Need for a Climate Smart Approach

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.

Further Information

• FAO Success Stories on Climate-Smart Agriculture
• Dowload from FAO: Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook
• Handbook on Climate Information for Farming Communities - What farms need and what is available
• Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) portal on energypedia