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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: | + | '''Climate-smart agriculture ''' |
| − | '''#'''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). |
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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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| − | 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. {{#widget:YouTube|id=F9_nH7_O8Ys|height=400|width=600}} | + | 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. |
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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.
