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"Climate-Smart" Agriculture
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Policies, Practices and Financing for Food Security, Adaptation and Mitigation
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FAO
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FAO
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| Year
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2010
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| Keywords
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Climate change adaptation, production systems, policy recommendations, financing and investment
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publication
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| Language
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English
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| Table of Contents
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Part 1 - Examples of climate-smart production systems
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 Considerations for climate-smart production systems
1.1.2 Achievements and constraints
1.1.3 Existing systems, practices and methods suitable for climate-smart agriculture
1.2 Crops: rice production systems
1.3 Crops: Conservation Agriculture
1.4 Livestock production efficiency and resilience
1.5 Agroforestry
1.6 Fisheries and aquaculture
1.7 Urban and peri-urban agriculture
1.8 Diversified and Integrated Food - Energy Systems
Part 2 - Institutional and policy options
2.1 Enabling policy environment
2.1.1 National policy making
2.1.2 Coordinated international policies
2.2 Institutions: information production and dissemination
2.3 Climate data and information gaps
2.4 Dissemination mechanisms
2.5 Institutions to improve access, coordination and collective action
2.6 Institutions to support financing and insurance needs
2.6.1 Credit
2.6.2 Insurance
2.6.3 Social Safety Nets
2.6.4 Payments for environmental services
Part 3 - Financing Investments for Climate-smart Agriculture
3.1 Why financing is needed
3.2 Financing gaps
3.3 Sources of financing
3.3.1 Blending different sources of financing
3.3.2 Leveraging
3.4 Financing mechanisms
3.4.1 Weaknesses of existing mechanisms
3.4.2 New mechanisms
3.4.3 Architecture that enables action, including by agriculture
3.5 Connecting action to financing
3.5.1 National level
3.5.2 Linking ot farmers
3.5.3 MRV
3.5.4 Pilots
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| Abstract
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Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture1 is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This paper examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on case studies from the field, the paper outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increasing the resilience and productivity of agricultural production systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. The second part of the paper surveys institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current financing gaps and makes innovative suggestions regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanisms and delivery systems.
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