by Evangeline Gleichner
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Climate smart agriculture (CSA) can be defined as sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes, adapting and building resilience to climate change and reducing greenhouse gases emissions.Feb 9, 2022
What is climate smart agriculture?
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an integrated approach to managing landscapes—cropland, livestock, forests and fisheries--that address the interlinked challenges of food security and climate change. Overview. A growing global population and changing diets are driving up the demand for food.
What are the benefits of climate smart agriculture?
Climate-smart agriculture seeks to increase sustainable productivity, strengthen farmers' resilience, reduce agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon sequestration. It strengthens food security and delivers environmental benefits.
What is smart agriculture?
Smart farming is a management concept focused on providing the agricultural industry with the infrastructure to leverage advanced technology – including big data, the cloud and the internet of things (IoT) – for tracking, monitoring, automating and analyzing operations.
What is meant by climate smart agriculture Upsc?
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural production systems and food value chains so that they support sustainable development and can ensure food security under climate change.
What are the importance of climate in agriculture?
Changes in ozone, greenhouse gases and climate change affect agricultural producers greatly because agriculture and fisheries depend on specific climate conditions. Temperature changes can cause habitat ranges and crop planting dates to shift and droughts and floods due to climate change may hinder farming practices.
What are climate smart technologies?
Climate Smart Technologies are a host of clean low green house gas emission technologies to facilitate adaptation and mitigation to achieve resilience directly and indirectly against climate change impacts globally in short, medium and long term in across all sectors.
What are some examples of climate-smart agriculture?
Enhanced resilience (adapting to climate change) Reduced emissions (mitigating greenhouse gas emissions)...In fact, Climate-Smart Agriculture includes many practices that farmers already use:Conservation tillage.Cover cropping.Nutrient management.Agroforestry.other practices to reduce GHG emissions.
What are the 3 pillars of climate-smart agriculture?
Our framework to assess the current CSA assessment tools is based on ALL of the three CSA pillars: food security, adaptation, and mitigation (Figure 1).
How is climate-smart agriculture implemented?
Climate-smart practices include activities that store carbon and improve resilience and soil health, such as reduced and no-till, cover crops, and prescribed grazing; reduce GHG emissions, including methane and nitrous oxide, using practices such as ruminant feed management, manure management, and fertilizer management ...
When was Climate-Smart Agriculture introduced?
2013The first of its kind in Bhutan when launched in 2013, the project serves as a building block to a Climate Resilient Agriculture (CRA) for small holder women, men and youths farmers.
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