Transcript Climate Smart Agriculture - Regional Environmental Center

Climate Smart Agriculture :
way forward for Food Security
in a changing climate
Alberto Sandoval
FAO
A triple Challenge
• More food, in quantity, quality and
diversity, everywhere for everyone
• Adapt to Climate Change
• Contribute to mitigate Climate
Change
Food and Nutrition Security
• Availability
• Accessibility
• Utilisation
• Stability
Two ways to adapt
• Getting more resilient to variability
• Getting prepared to long term
changes
Two ways to mitigate
• Reduce emissions per kg of output
(decorrelate production growth and
emissions growth)
• Enhance agricultural soil carbons
sinks
Climate Smart Agriculture
"Agriculture that sustainably
increases productivity, resilience
(adaptation), reduces/removes
greenhouse gases (mitigation),
and enhances achievement of
national food security and
development goals."
Efficiency
Efficient & resilient
Food Systems
Resilience
Various Scales
• At farm scale:
– Increase efficiency/resilience
• From a global point of view:
– Produce where it is more efficient
– Increase efficiency where there is the
biggest efficiency gap, as compared to
best usable practices
• At local, national, regional scale
– Often various objectives to be taken into
account
Various Dimensions
• Biophysical
• Economics
• Social issues, gender, indigenous
people
• Cultural background
Interact and interact with the various
dimensions of Food Security
Enabling policies and
institutions
• National level
• Local level
• Capacity building
• Information
– ICT
– Extension services
Financing and Investments
• What investments (public, private)
• What financing mechanisms are
available?
• How to combine them?
Indicators
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Income
Carbon in the landscape
Energy from fosil fuels
Stakeholder engagement
Thank You