Planning, implementingand evaluating Climate Smart Agriculture in Smallholder Farming Systems
For smallholder farmers facing food insecurity, poverty, the degradation of land and water resources and climatic variability, agriculture has to meet the challenge of achieving food security and at the same time responding to climate change. The core challenge is to sustainably improve food production and increase the resilience of farming systems and livelihoods. This will mean transforming production systems by introducing more climate-resilient and low emission agricultural practices and adopting a new perspective on agriculture that links the development of suitable incentive mechanisms for farmers with appropriate policies and programmes.