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ProjectIdentifying Suitable Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Practices for Scale-Up in Thailand - TCP/THA/3604 2020
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No results found.With global weather patterns becoming increasingly unpredictable, like many other regions, Thailand’s agricultural production systems and communities are expected to suffer from rapidly fluctuating temperatures and increased frequencies and intensities of extreme weather events, such as droughts and floods. This will inevitably have adverse impacts on agricultural productivity, endangering economic growth and the livelihoods of the vulnerable smallholder farmers dependent on this sector for their well-being. In addition, decreasing productivity will substantially impact regional and national food security statuses. It is therefore imperative that agricultural systems evolve with practices that help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (mitigatition), and to adjust to the rapid environmental changes. However, the abilities of these agricultural production systems and dependent communities to cope with the constraints and opportunities that come with climatic variability are still not well understood, and should therefore be given higher priority, in order to enhance resilience. Developing farmers’ capacities and knowledge to make climate smart choices in their agricultural practices is crucial, but requires in-depth understanding of the local socio-economic contexts and suitability in different agro-ecological zones of a country. Climate smart agriculture (CSA), which incorporates adaptation and mitigation measures while ensuring productivity, has the potential to build synergies and limit trade-offs in agriculture under present climate uncertainties, and reduce existing knowledge gaps and non-alignment between sectors and policies. Thailand has developed a national sector strategy to promote an approach that is consistent with CSA. However, there is limited understanding of how CSA technologies and approaches are being adopted or deployed by relevant government agencies. Against this background, the project aimed to enhance the resilience to climate change of rural communities in four regions (north, northeast, central and south), through the identification and proactive promotion of CSA practices. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetClimate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) - Boosting agricultural productivity and incomes while adapting to climate change 2019
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No results found.Agriculture suffers more than 26 percent of the damage and loss caused by climate-related disasters, disproportionately affecting the poorest and most vulnerable, three-quarters of whom rely on agriculture or natural resources for their livelihoods. A single major natural disaster can undermine years of development work and climate change can have major long-term repercussions. On the flip side, agricultural sectors are often unsustainable, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and degrading the natural resource base. FAO has developed a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes while adapting and building resilience to climate change, and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions. The approach has been widely adopted internationally and is key to achieving Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) commitments as well as SDG targets. Building on successful on-the-ground implementation, policy commitments and partnerships, this initiative will scale up and strengthen CSA through the concerted integration of disaster risk-reduction and management interventions, and through greater consideration of social aspects (in particular, gender-related responses and social protection). Such an approach will allow the identification of interventions that optimize SDG synergies and reduce social and environmental trade-offs. -
ProjectTransitioning to climate-smart agriculture: Climate change impact 2011
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