Ensuring climate-smart agriculture ‘leaves no one behind’
Climate-smart agriculture is an approach to ensure countries can produce enough food to feed their populations in the face of climate change
Abstract
People in Africa are increasingly suffering the impacts of climate change. Unpredictable weather patterns and resulting droughts, floods and crop diseases are lowering crop yields – and, in turn, lowering household resilience, food security and income, and people’s wellbeing. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach to ensure countries can produce enough food to feed their populations in the face of climate change. It embraces many farming technologies and practices, and is endorsed by, among others, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). However, its potential to lift the poorest farmers out of poverty in line with the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) commitment to ‘leave no one behind’ is not assured.
Citation
Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation. Ensuring climate-smart agriculture ‘leaves no one behind’ Policy and Practice Briefs, March 2018
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