Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices seek to mitigate agriculture's contribution to climate change while building resilience and adaptation to the impacts of climate change and increasing the production of food crops. CSA is an approach to identify production systems that can best respond to the...
Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe, on June 5, 2024. Despite the El Nino-induced drought facing Zimbabwe, Moyo and her husband, Abel Katsande, still harvested enough grains to last them until the next harvest, thanks to climate-smart farming practices that ensure the sustainable use of land an...
“Climate-smart” agriculture is one of the options for sustainable agricultural production that supports production and enhances adaptive capacity [15,23,24,25]. Recent agricultural policy has focused on these practices to address economic and environmental concerns [11,26]. CSA is an essential comp...
Climate smart agriculture is a concept that focuses on developing new, sustainable methods of producing food while reducing the effects of climate change.
These practices, divergent from conventional agricultural methods, embody intelligence in adapting to climate change, collectively known as "climate-smart agriculture." 3 Impacts of CSA adoption on farm productivity and incomes The first CSA goal is to achieve sustainable increases in ...
2.1. CSA practices Climate-smart agriculture refers to practices that increase productivity and income, build farm resilience and mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (FAO, 2013). At the farm level, the adoption of CSA practices is context-specific influenced by institutional ...
Some of the climate-smart agricultural practices that Betty and other farmers have been implementing, such as line planting, help farmers determine the exact plant population in their gardens, Bosco Lokosang, Women for Women International’s Agriculture Officer, says. ...
The experiment followed a randomized block design with three treatments including in traditional farmers' practices (FM), optimized agronomic practices (OPT, aiming to high grain yield and PFPN), and climate-smart agriculture practices (CSA, aiming to higher grain yield, PFPN, SOC stock, while ...
The climate challenges confronting agriculture are multiple, interconnected and multi-scaled. Agriculture is a source of increasing greenhouse gas emission... A Chandra 被引量: 1发表: 2017年 Climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia: Adoption of multiple crop production practices as a sustainable adaptation...
Find out about the Climate Smart Agriculture, as well as important and key details about it which are crucial for the UPSC exam. Also read about the approaches and actions constituting Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), and its importance. For IAS preparat