Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)

Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach to climate action in agriculture sectors. It seeks to transform and reorient agricultural systems that could effectively support sustainable development and ensure food security under climate change.

CSA requires supportive policies, institutions and financing, which together to create an enabling environment for change at local, national and international levels. Here we listed the main concepts of CSA.

3 Main Objects of CSA:

Mitigation: A human intervention to reduce the source of enhance the sinks of greenhouses gases (GHGs).

Adaption: The process to adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects. In human systems , adaption seeks to moderate or avoid harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. In some nature systems, human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate and its effects.

Sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes

Adapt and building resilience to climate change (Adaption)

Reduce and/or remove greenhouse gas emissions (Mitigation)

CSA is Not:

Not Universal: the specific contexts of countries and communities would shape how CSA is ultimately implemented.
Not a set of agricultural practices: CSA is an approach that involves technologies, insurance schemes and value chains, as well as institutional and political enabling environments.
Not prescriptive: CSA focuses on specific food security challenges, and agro-ecological environments.
Not a new set of sustainability principles.

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5 Approach Steps to CSA

CSA relies on a comprehensive process leading to the identification and dissemination of locally suitable practices and context specific technologies.

Resilience

Resilience could be described as the capacity of systems, communities households or individuals to prevent, mitigate or to cope with risk and recover from shocks. Resilience adds a time dimension, a system is more resilient means it is less vulnerable to shocks across the time and could recover from the shocks faster. Adaptive capacity encompass 2 dimensions: recovery from risks and response to changes these 2 factors decide the the "plasticity" of the system.

Learn more about CSA:

Climate Smart Agriculuture Sourcebook.pdf

FAO CSA Source Book

01 Introduction Climate Smart Agriculture.pdf

Introduction of CSA

02 Climate change adaptation and mitigation.pdf

Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation

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