Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach to farming that aims to achieve three goals at once: sustainably increasing productivity and farm incomes, helping crops, livestock and farmers adapt to climate change, and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions wherever possible. Climate-resilient agriculture focuses on the ability of a farming system to absorb shocks such as droughts, floods, heatwaves and new pest outbreaks, and to recover quickly. Common practices include stress-tolerant varieties, conservation tillage, crop diversification, efficient irrigation, agroforestry, weather-based advisories and crop insurance. Because climate change affects every region differently, CSA is not a single technology but a combination of practices chosen to suit local conditions.
What you will learn by joining this session
Practical adaptation strategies for heat, drought and erratic rainfall
How climate models are used to plan future crop choices and planting zones
Case studies of resilient cropping systems from different regions
Ways to connect your research with climate funding and policy programmes