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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okr-10986-249472021-05-25T08:50:57Z Climate-Smart Agriculture Indicators World Bank Group climate change climate policy agriculture technology 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. 2016-08-25T19:53:45Z 2016-08-25T19:53:45Z 2016-06-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26598658/climate-smart-agriculture-indicators http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24947 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Agriculture Study |
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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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Climate-Smart Agriculture Indicators |
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Indicators |
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Indicators |
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Indicators |
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Indicators |
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climate-smart agriculture indicators |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2016 |
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