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A thriving agricultural sector in a changing climate: Meeting Malabo Declaration goals through climate-smart agriculture [1]

Given its heavy reliance on rainfed agriculture and projected climatic and weather changes, SSA faces multidimensional challenges in ensuring food and nutrition security as well as preserving its ecosystems. In this regard, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can play an important role in addressing the interlinked challenges of food security and climate change. CSA practices aim to achieve three closely related objectives: sustainably increase agricultural productivity, adapt to climate change, and mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The CSA objectives directly contribute to achieving the 2014 Malabo Declaration goals, which include commitments to (1) end hunger in Africa by 2025, (2) halve poverty by 2025 through inclusive agricultural growth and transformation, and (3) enhance the resilience of livelihoods and production systems to climate variability and other related risks. These linkages underscore the importance of including CSA in country and regional plans to achieve overarching development objectives in Africa, in particular food security and poverty reduction. The 2016 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) examines the contribution of CSA to meeting Malabo Declaration goals by taking stock of current knowledge on the effects of climate change, reviewing existing evidence of the effectiveness of various CSA strategies, and discussing examples of CSA-based practices and tools for developing evidence-based policies and programs.

Publication Date: 
25/10/2017
Alessandro De Pinto [2], John M. Ulimwengu [3]
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) [4]
Tags:
Agriculture [5], Climate Change [6], Food Security [7], Africa [8], Livestock [9], Farmers [10]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/alessandro-de-pinto
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
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