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Sustainable intensification: What is its role in climate smart agriculture?

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Title Sustainable intensification: What is its role in climate smart agriculture?
 
Creator Campbell, Bruce M.
Thornton, Philip K.
Zougmoré, Robert B.
Asten, Piet J.A. van
Lipper, Leslie
 
Subject climate
agriculture
sustainable agriculture
adaptation
 
Description The ‘sustainable intensification’ (SI) approach and ‘climate-smart agriculture’ (CSA) are highly complementary. SI is an essential means of adapting to climate change, also resulting in lower emissions per unit of output. With its emphasis on improving risk management, information flows and local institutions to support adaptive capacity, CSA provides the foundations for incentivizing and enabling intensification. But adaptation requires going beyond a narrow intensification lens to include diversified farming systems, local adaptation planning, building responsive governance systems, enhancing leadership skills, and building asset diversity. While SI and CSA are crucial for global food and nutritional security, they are only part of a multi-pronged approach, that includes reducing consumption and waste, building social safety nets, facilitating trade, and enhancing diets.
 
Date 2014-06
2014-09-12T09:13:13Z
2014-09-12T09:13:13Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Campbell BM, Thornton P, Zougmoré R, van Asten P, Lipper L. 2014. Sustainable intensification: What is its role in climate smart agriculture? Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 8:39-43
1877-3435
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42347
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2014.07.002
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 39-43
 
Source Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability