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| − | <u>'''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:</u> | + | = Overview<br/> = |
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| | + | '''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:<br/> |
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| | #sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, to support equitable increases in farm incomes, food security and development; | | #sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, to support equitable increases in farm incomes, food security and development; |
| | #adapting and building resilience of agricultural and food security systems to climate change at multiple levels; | | #adapting and building resilience of agricultural and food security systems to climate change at multiple levels; |
| − | #reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture (including crops, livestock and sheries). | + | #reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture (including crops, livestock and sheries).<br/> |
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| | <br/>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<ref name="FAO, 2014. About Climate Smart Agriculture. http://www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart/en/">FAO, 2014. About Climate Smart Agriculture. http://www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart/en/</ref> | | <br/>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<ref name="FAO, 2014. About Climate Smart Agriculture. http://www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart/en/">FAO, 2014. About Climate Smart Agriculture. http://www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart/en/</ref> |
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| − | = Further Information = | + | = Further Information<br/> = |
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| − | *[[Portal:Powering Agriculture|Powering Agriculture Portal on energypedia]]
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| | *[http://www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart/en/ FAO Success Stories on Climate-Smart Agriculture] | | *[http://www.fao.org/climatechange/climatesmart/en/ FAO Success Stories on Climate-Smart Agriculture] |
| | *[http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3325e/i3325e.pdf Dowload from FAO: Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook] | | *[http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3325e/i3325e.pdf Dowload from FAO: Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook] |
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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.
