Climate Smart Agriculture: Resilience, Food Security, Mitigation and Adaptation

Avoiding trade-offs, creating synergies in a connected world

CLIMATE CHANGE

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Threat?

Opportunity?

Negative impacts of climate change on agricultural production

Potential to contribute to mitigation

CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE

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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

CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE

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FAO, 2010. Hague Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change.

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?

Objectives of the session

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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?

Discussion

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