T.3. Climate-Smart Agriculture
- While agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to climate change, it is also a major cause, directly accounting for about 14 percent of greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC 2007).
- This is called the ‘triple win’: interventions that Would increase yields (poverty reduction and food Security), make yields more resilient in the face extremes (adaptation), and make the farm a solution to the climate change problem rather than part of the problem (mitigation).
- These triple wins are likely to require a package of interventions and be country-and locality specific in their application. This method of practicing agriculture is called Climate Smart Agriculture