Climate-Smart Agriculture Indicators
There is by now substantial consensus within the development community over the need for a more climate smart agriculture, which consists of three defining principles: enhancing agriculture’s resilience to climate change, reducing agricultural gree...
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Format: | Report |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26598658/climate-smart-agriculture-indicators http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24947 |
Summary: | There is by now substantial consensus
within the development community over the need for a more
climate smart agriculture, which consists of three defining
principles: enhancing agriculture’s resilience to climate
change, reducing agricultural green-house gas emissions, and
sustainably increasing production. With 795 million people
still not getting their minimum dietary requirements, there
is little scope for trade-offs between increasing production
and improving agriculture’s environmental impacts. Making
climate smart agriculture operational will rely on our
ability to measure production, resilience, and emissions in
a way that informs decision makers about the policies,
technologies, and practices that most effectively promotes
each. In addition to the direct results of an improved
activity or practice, longer term outcomes can lead to
fundamental changes in the way that producers, consumers,
investors, and others behave—and what they base their
production, consumption, and investment decisions on. The
indicators described in this document were developed for
this purpose. Applying the indicators to examine the
agricultural performance of different countries reveals a
number of correlates relating to institutions, legal
frameworks, and the relationships between agriculture and
other sectors like water and energy. Applying them to
projects affirms the important advantages of approaches that
employ appropriate technologies and that incorporate
broader, landscape-based perspectives that recognize and
allow for competing demands for land and water resources.
The type of highly practical empirical evidence that will be
amassed by monitoring these indicators is going to be
pivotal in mitigating agriculture’s large ecological
foot-print, in capitalizing on its potential to provide
environmental services, and in guiding the forms of
intensification that lead to substantially higher and more
sustainable production. |
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