This presentation shows explains what climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is and answers 3 questions: 1. Climate smart agriculture: is this the right direction to follow? 2. What is the common understanding of both adaptation and mitigation efforts, can synergies support food security? 3. What choices, investments, conditions to be made by farmers and other stakeholders to mobilize and maximize benefits from available climate smart practices and climate finance?

1. Climate Smart Agriculture:
Resilience, Food Security,
Mitigation and Adaptation
Avoiding trade-offs, creating
synergies in a connected world

2. CLIMATE CHANGE
Threat?
Opportunity?
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3. CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE
 Negative impacts of climate change on
agricultural production
 Potential to contribute to mitigation
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4. CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
 To reconcile three important priorities and
challenges of mankind:
 Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity
and incomes
 Adapting and building resilience to climate change
 Reducing and /or removing greenhouse gases
emissions, where possible
FAO, 2010. Hague Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change.
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5. Objectives of the session
 Climate smart agriculture: is this the right
direction to follow?
 Common understanding of both adaptation
and mitigation efforts, synergies can support
food security
 What choices, investments, conditions to be
made by farmers and other stakeholders to
mobilize and maximize benefits from available
climate smart practices and climate finance?
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7. Discussion
 What are the key challenges (barriers and
opportunities) for farmers and other rural
stakeholders for joint mitigation and adaptation at
farm level ?
 How can climate finance be streamlined for the
climate smart investments at the farm level?
 Who is responsible for embedded emissions, and how
could a climate finance regime incentivize better
climate-proofing of agriculture?
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