Enhancing Food Security and Climate Resilience
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an integrated approach to managing landscapes—cropland, livestock, forests and fisheries—that addresses the interlinked challenges of food security and accelerating climate change. CSA aims to simultaneously achieve three outcomes:
Increased productivity
Produce more and better food to improve nutrition security and boost incomes, especially of 75 percent of the world’s poor who live in rural areas and mainly rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.
Enhanced resilience
Reduce vulnerability to drought, pests, diseases and other climate-related risks and shocks; and improve capacity to adapt and grow in the face of longer-term stresses like shortened seasons and erratic weather patterns.
Reduced emissions
Pursue lower emissions for each calorie or kilo of food produced, avoid deforestation from agriculture and identify ways to absorb carbon out of the atmosphere.
While built on existing knowledge, technologies, and principles of sustainable agriculture, CSA is distinct in several ways. First, it has an explicit focus on addressing climate change. Second, CSA systematically considers the synergies and tradeoffs that exist between productivity, adaptation and mitigation. Finally, CSA aims to capture new funding opportunities to close the deficit in investment.
Find out more about CSA basics, planning, financing, investing, and more in the online guide to CSA developed in collaboration with the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) of the CGIAR.
GREEN INITIATIVE: PARTNERING WITH agribusiness TO IMPLEMENT CLIMATE-SMART BUSINESS STRATEGIES
Are you an agribusiness looking to promote climate-smart practices? Contact Green Initiative today and benefit from our expert advisory services. Our team of experienced climate advisors can help you develop and implement customized climate action strategies that meet your business needs and align with the Triple Goals of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). Take the first step towards a sustainable future – contact us now to learn more!
