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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetClimate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) - Boosting agricultural productivity and incomes while adapting to climate change 2019
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No results found.Agriculture suffers more than 26 percent of the damage and loss caused by climate-related disasters, disproportionately affecting the poorest and most vulnerable, three-quarters of whom rely on agriculture or natural resources for their livelihoods. A single major natural disaster can undermine years of development work and climate change can have major long-term repercussions. On the flip side, agricultural sectors are often unsustainable, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and degrading the natural resource base. FAO has developed a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes while adapting and building resilience to climate change, and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions. The approach has been widely adopted internationally and is key to achieving Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) commitments as well as SDG targets. Building on successful on-the-ground implementation, policy commitments and partnerships, this initiative will scale up and strengthen CSA through the concerted integration of disaster risk-reduction and management interventions, and through greater consideration of social aspects (in particular, gender-related responses and social protection). Such an approach will allow the identification of interventions that optimize SDG synergies and reduce social and environmental trade-offs. -
Book (stand-alone)Synergies and trade-offs in climate-smart agriculture
An approach to systematic assessment
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No results found.This publication analyses of the synergies and trade-offs that can occur within climate-smart agriculture (CSA), more specifically between its three pillars: (i) sustainably increasing productivity and incomes in agriculture, (ii) building resilience of and adapting food and agriculture systems to climate change, (iii) reducing/removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible. The aim of this analysis is to develop a systematic characterization of possible synergies and trade-offs in CSA, as well as provide a tool to guide CSA practitioners through the assessment of synergies and trade-offs during the design and planning of CSA strategies or interventions. The ultimate objective is to support strategic decisions that enhance synergies and reduce trade-offs to achieve better results for investments in CSA. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetClimate-Smart Agriculture in Yobe state of Nigeria 2019
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No results found.The climate smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects an ambition to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness. It aims to achieve food security and broader development goals under a changing climate and increasing food demand. CSA initiatives sustainably increase productivity, enhance resilience, and reduce/remove greenhouse gases (GHGs), and require planning to address trade-offs and synergies between three pillars: productivity, adaptation and mitigation. The priorities of different countries and stakeholders are reflected to achieve more efficient, effective, and equitable food systems that address challenges in environment, social, and economic dimensions across productive landscapes. The country profile provides a snapshot of a developing baseline created to initiate discussion, both within countries and globally, about entry points for investing in CSA at scale. Agriculture is the mainstay for Yobe state economy employing over 80% of the population. Agricultural practices in the state are mainly rain-fed with majority of the farmers engaged in small scale subsistence farming with millet, sorghum, beans and maize as major food crops and gum arabic, groundnut, sesame seed and cotton as cash crops. A significant proportion of the population are pastoralists rearing livestock such as cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and horses at commercial level. The agricultural sector in the state is struggling to meet the increasing food demand for its growing population as it battles with low productivity arising limited investments, low farm input use, land tenure and climate variability. In addition, the problem of flash floods, high temperature and incidences of pests and diseases have also aggravated the irrigation and upland farmers’ losses which consequently increase the incidence of poverty and malnutrition in the state. CSA practices and technologies such as the use of micro dosing, improved seed varieties, intercropping, planting pits, integrated soil fertility management, fodder banks etc. are quite widespread and their proliferation has been facilitated by ease of adoption, and multiple benefits such as food, income diversification and improved resilience. Although there are a wide range of organizations conducting CSA-related work, most have focused largely on food security, environmental management and adaptation. There is the need to also integrate mitigation into the State’s climate-smart agriculture development efforts. In addition, off-farm services related to CSA need to be enhanced, including weather-smart and market-smart services. The Yobe state government places high priority on the development of the agricultural sector in the state. The state ministry of agriculture is saddled with the responsibility of implementing agricultural
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