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Climate Smart Agriculture

by sagar koirala | 18-10-2019 21:35 recommendations 0

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps to guide actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate. CSA helps for developing agricultural strategies to secure sustainable food security under climate change. CSA provides the means to help stakeholders from local to national and international levels identify agricultural strategies suitable to their local conditions. CSA is one of the 11 Corporate Areas for Resource Mobilization under the FAO¡¯s Strategic objectives.

There are three main pillars of CSA. They are:

 Productivity: CSA aims to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes from crops, livestock and fish, without having a negative impact on the environment. This, in turn, will raise food and nutritional security. A key concept related to raising productivity is sustainable intensification

 

Adaptation: CSA aims to reduce the exposure of farmers to short-term risks, while also strengthening their resilience by building their capacity to adapt and prosper in the face of shocks and longer-term stresses. Particular attention is given to protecting the ecosystem services which ecosystems provide to farmers and others. These services are essential for maintaining productivity and our ability to adapt to climate changes.

Mitigation: Wherever and whenever possible, CSA should help to reduce and/or remove greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This implies that we reduce emissions for each calorie or kilo of food, fibre and fuel that we produce. That we avoid deforestation from agriculture. And that we manage soils and trees in ways that maximizes their potential to acts as carbon sinks and absorb CO2 from the atmosphere.

 

It aims to tackle three main objectives:

Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes;

Adapting and building resilience to climate change;

Reducing and/or Removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible.

Food security and climate change can be addressed together by transforming agriculture and adopting practices that are "climate-smart". Farmers are under the greatest threat from climate change, but they also play a major role in addressing it. Climate-smart farming techniques can increase agricultural productivity and incomes, make rural communities more resilient to climate change and where possible, mitigate climate change. Local knowledge, as well as the capacity to link research and local activities, plays a key role in scaling up the CSA approach to reinforce the resilience of farmers¡¯ livelihoods.

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12 Comments

  • Bindu Dhakal says :
    Hello Sagar dai,
    I hope you are doing great,
    Thank you so much for your informative report,
    Hope to read more from you,
    Keep writing,
    Green Cheers,
    Bindu

    Posted 18-07-2021 13:50

  • Hema Sapkota says :
    Greetings Sagar
    I hope you are doing well

    Great
    Thank you so much for this report.
    I hope yo read more from you
    Keep writing
    Green cheers!
    Regards
    Hema
    Posted 18-03-2020 11:49

  • sagar koirala says :
    Thanks Madhu for such warm words !
    Posted 21-10-2019 00:52

  • Madhu Aryal says :
    Hello Sagar,
    I hope you are doing fine. Csa really increase our sustainability.
    Keep writing
    Yours
    Madhu Aryal
    Posted 20-10-2019 21:40

  • sagar koirala says :
    Thanks @Sonika . I didn't know that you are part of this platform . So ,happy to see you .
    Posted 20-10-2019 01:26

  • Asmita Gaire says :
    Hello sagar dai
    I hope you are fine

    A very good concept of climate smart. Food security and climate change addressing together. That??s great.

    Thank you so much for this report.
    Keep writing

    Green cheers
    Yours
    Asmita Gaire
    Posted 19-10-2019 09:58

  • Sandhya Adhikari says :
    Hello Sagar dai,
    Well written report on Climate smart agriculture .
    Keep writing such a great report!))))))
    We are eager to read much more from you,
    Yours,
    Sandhya
    Posted 19-10-2019 07:53

  • Meena Pandey says :
    Hello Sagar dai!!!
    I hope you are fine and doing great.
    Thank you for an wonderful piece of writing.
    CSA ensures the sustainability of food security under even climate change.

    Keep writing and shining.
    Hope to know more from you.

    Yours,
    Meena
    Posted 19-10-2019 00:46

Sonika Pariyar

  • Sonika Pariyar says :
    Sagar dai !!
    Thanks for sharing.
    CSA can increase our agricultural productivity and solve food security problem with minimum emission of green house gases.







    Posted 18-10-2019 23:29

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