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Climate-smart agriculture for food security

Year of publication 2014

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 12p.

Author Lipper, L.;

Publisher Springer Nature ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural systems to support food security under the new realities of climate change. Widespread changes in rainfall and temperature patterns threaten agricultural production and increase the vulnerability of people dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, which includes most of the world’s poor. Climate change disrupts food markets, posing population-wide risks to food supply. Threats can be reduced by inc reasing adaptive capacity of farmers as well as increasing resilience and resource use efficiency in agricultural production systems. CSA promotes coordinated actions by farmers, researchers, private sector, civil society and policymakers towards climate-resilient pathways through four main action areas: 1) building evidence; 2) increasing local institutional effectiveness; 3) fostering coherence between climate and agricultural policies; and 4) linking climate and agricultural financing. CSA di ffers from “business-as-usual” approaches by emphasizing the capacity to implement flexible, context-specific solutions, supported by innovative policy and financing actions.

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Lipper, L., Thornton, P., Campbell, B. et al. Climate-smart agriculture for food security. Nature Clim Change 4, 1068–1072 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2437

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