Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach that focuses on the farmer, fisher and/or herder. It seeks ways to improve the farmer’s productivity and income. It is an approach that helps farmers to adapt to a changing climate and contributes to the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The aim of this publication is to provide the best FAO-led examples of how the CSA is not a “one-size-fits-all” approach that can be universally applied but, rather, involves different elements embedded in local contexts.

The ten successful case studies presented here show how the CSA approach has been applied in the regional context to benefit both the agricultural sectors and farming communities. By definition, the CSA approach pursues three pillars: to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and improve farmers’ incomes; to build resilience and adaptation to climate change; and to reduce and/or remove GHG emissions, where possible.

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In the following video, Mr Matthew Reddy, the Director of Forest Solutions Group & Climate Smart Agriculture at WBCSD, comments about the benefits of climate-smart agriculture.

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At the same time climate change is already negatively impacting agricultural production globally and locally. Climate risks to cropping, livestock and fisheries are expected to increase in coming decades, particularly in low-income countries where adaptive capacity is weaker.

Impacts on agriculture threaten both food security and agriculture’s pivotal role in rural livelihoods and broad-based development. Also the agricultural sector, if emissions from land use change are also included, generates about one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Climate change will hit farmers, herders and fishers the hardest. The Climate-Smart Agriculture approach promotes the development of the technical, policy and investment conditions to achieve sustainable agricultural development for food security under a changing climate.

It seeks to:

• increase sustainably agricultural productivity and incomes,
• help adapt and build resilience to climate change impacts and wherever possible,
• reduces and/or removes greenhouse gases.

To make climate-smart agriculture a reality we need to:

• expand the evidence base;
• improve policies;
• empower local institutions;
• and combine new financing options.

Let’s make sure our agriculture is productive and sustainable for generations to come.

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