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