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Identifying Climate-smart agriculture research needs

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Title Identifying Climate-smart agriculture research needs
 
Creator Torquebiau, Emmanuel
Rosenzweig, Cynthia
Chatrchyan, Allison M.
Andrieu, Nadine
Khosla, Raj
 
Subject CLIMATE CHANGE
CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
FOOD SECURITY
SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA
SOIL
SUELO
 
Description Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach to help agricultural systems worldwide, concurrently addressing three challenge areas: increased adaptation to climate change, mitigation of climate change, and ensuring global food security – through innovative policies, practices, and financing. It involves a set of objectives and multiple transformative transitions for which there are newly identified knowledge gaps. We address these questions raised by CSA within three areas: conceptualization, implementation, and implications for policy and decision-makers. We also draw up scenarios on the future of the CSA concept in relation to the 4 per 1000 Initiative (Soils for Food Security and Climate) launched at UNFCCC 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21). Our analysis shows that there is still a need for further interdisciplinary research on the theoretical foundation of the CSA concept and on the necessary transformations of agriculture and land use systems. Contrasting views about implementation indicate that CSA focus on the “triple win” (adaptation, mitigation, food security) needs to be assessed in terms of science-based practices. CSA policy tools need to incorporate an integrated set of measures supported by reliable metrics. Environmental and social safeguards are necessary to make sure that CSA initiatives conform to the principles of sustainability, both at the agriculture and food system levels.
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Date 2018-04-09T21:03:27Z
2018-04-09T21:03:27Z
2018
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Torquebiau, E., Rosenzweig, C., Chatrchyan, A. M., Andrieu, N. and Khosla, R. (2018) Identifying Climate-smart agriculture research needs, Cahiers Agricultures, 27(2), p. 26001. doi: 10.1051/cagri/2018010.
1166-7699
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92043
 
Language en
 
Format 27:26001
 
Publisher E D P Sciences
 
Source Cahiers Agricultures