What is climate smart agriculture approach?
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 some climate smart agriculture practices?
Climate-smart crop production practices and technologies
- Use of quality seeds and planting materials of well-adapted crops and varieties.
- Biodiversity management.
- Integrated Pest Management.
- Improved water use and management.
- Sustainable soil and land management for increased crop productivity.
- Sustainable mechanization.
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 are examples of CSA?
Examples of specific CSA interventions include soil management, drought-tolerant maize, dairy development, farming catfish intensively, carbon finance to restore crop fields, waste-reducing rice thresher, rainfall forecasts and incentive system for low-carbon agriculture.
What is climate-smart village?
CCAFS Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) have successfully combined global knowledge with local action to help farmers sustainably produce more food, while curbing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing resilience to climate change.
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.
When was Climate Smart Agriculture introduced?
2013
The 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.
How climate change will affect the agriculture production of Pakistan?
It is predicted that there will be a 3°C temperature rise by 2040 and by the end of the century temperatures are predicted to have risen 5-6°C that will cause lose up to 50% of their wheat productivity (Ghanem, 2010) in Asian countries. This loss will be greater for Pakistan due to its geographical position.
How Pakistan is affected by climate change?
In Pakistan, climatic changes are expected to have wide-ranging impacts, such as: reduced agricultural productivity, increased variability of water availability, increased coastal erosion and sea water incursion, and increased frequency of extreme climatic events.
How does a CSA work?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a production and marketing model whereby consumers buy shares of a farm’s harvest in advance. Consumers become CSA members by paying an agreed amount at the beginning of the growing season, either in one lump sum or in installments.
Why is it called Cape Canaveral?
Name origin The name “Canaveral” (Cañaveral in Spanish) was given to the area by Spanish explorers, and it literally means ” canebrake”. It can be interpreted as “Cape of Canes”.
What is 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.