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| | + | = 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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| − | <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>
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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]]
| + | *[http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3817e.pdf 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] |
| | + | *[[Publication_-_Handbook_on_Climate_Information_for_Farming_Communities_-_What_farms_need_and_what_is_available|Handbook on Climate Information for Farming Communities - What farms need and what is available]] |
| | + | *[[Portal:Water and Energy for Food|Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) portal on energypedia]] |
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| | + | [[Category:Agriculture]] |
| | + | [[Category:Climate_Change]] |
| | [[Category:Powering_Agriculture]] | | [[Category:Powering_Agriculture]] |
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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.
