FAO launched new Climate-Smart Agriculture web platform

17th November 2017
by secretary

Paepard

10 November 2017, Rome – To help steer our food systems in a sustainable direction, FAO has produced a new sourcebook for how to implement “climate-smart” approaches to agriculture, launched at the Agriculture Action Day on the sidelines of the COP23 climate summit in Bonn.

The online Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook – Second Edition 2017 is the result of one of FAO’s major areas of work that comes on the heels of the recently launched FAO’s Climate Change Strategy.

It comprises a wide range of knowledge and expertise to help guide policy makers, programme managers, academics, extension services and other practitioners make the agricultural sectors more sustainable and productive while also contributing to food security and lower carbon intensity.
The second edition of the sourcebook adds new modules addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation, integrated production systems, knowledge-support systems for rural producers, the role of gender and how to improve implementation.

Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) has garnered increasing attention. Some 32 countries, half of them Least-Developed Countries, and three-fourths of them in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically refer to CSA in their Nationally Determined Contributions to achieving pledges made under the Paris Agreement.

Climate-Smart Agriculture is one of the approaches to steer the needed transformation in the world’s agriculture and food systems in ways that are both productive and sustainable and contribute to adaptation to and mitigation of climate change.

Source: PAEPARD FEED