Climate-Smart Agriculture in Action

570 million farms around the world are facing the threat of climate change head-on and yet we're demanding more from agriculture than ever before more food for our growing population better incomes for those working across the food chain and the careful management of our planet's soils and water resources this is no easy task how can our agriculture sectors step up to this challenge the answer climate smart agriculture climate smart agriculture aims to help find new ways to adapt and thrive under climate change it's based on three in tallit goals increasing agricultural productivity and incomes sustainably and equitably helping food systems and farming livelihoods be more resilient and minimizing Agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions farms of every type and every size and become climate smarter for example by identifying and promoting sustainable farming practices and tools using inputs more efficiently and effectively to grow more from less and building markets where farmers can access what they need and sell any surplus of what they produce climate change is a challenge to our food system but it's also an opportunity for us to innovate and adapt easy to say but harder to do we must work together to become climate smarter and to support the necessary technical policy and investment solutions that our farmers need climate change is actually affecting farmers in my region interns yet will have brains when we are not expecting we have drugs when we are not expecting the pests there are new weeds invasive species we've observed winters that they are much more longer than than usual everyone said climate change affect their daily life affect the crop affect the production affect their activities in agriculture especially when you begin to suffer you are seeing things going from bad to worse you are bound to adapt proceed the acuerdo la cumbia climatic owes its summa mint important a y muy importante tener mucho registros de que lo que pasar el mocambo durante los últimos synonyms farmers are finding ways of responding to climate change in the crappenin multiple crafted companion planting crop rotation Swedish farmers they tried to do try to use the best practices for for everything for animal husbandry for for a menu system for other things that you can do when it comes to climate change this is what climate smart agriculture aims to achieve you

Channel: Farming First

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Keywords: climate smart agriculture, CSA, gacsa, global alliance for climate smart agriculture, farming first, agriculture, climate change

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Length: 3min 37sec (217 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 08 2016