This brochure highlights the need for an integrated approach to food security, poverty and climate change. It stresses that 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. The document also presents country examples of climate-smart agriculture in action and concludes discussing next steps.

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Topics: Agriculture and Food, Land Use Management, Adaptation, Mitigation

Type of material: Other

Publication date: 2011

Language: English