A changing climate has put agricultural landscapes at risk, but integrated solutions hold the promise of adaptation and mitigation.
These five resources are a great start to understanding what a climate-smart food system will look like. Share them using the hashtag #WFD2016.
1. The CSA Guide: Climate-smart agriculture 101
This beautifully-designed website provides a very comprehensive introduction to the concept and practice of climate-smart agriculture. As site puts it, “This site is your gateway to implementing climate-smart agriculture. It will help you get started and guide you right through to implementation on the ground, connecting you with all the resources you need to dig deeper.”
CCAFS Climate-Smart Agriculture 101 is a great resource for everyone from farmers to financiers.
2. Climate-Smart Landscapes: Multifunctionality in Practice
This book from the World Agroforestry Centre clearly demonstrates, through its 27 chapters full of case studies and analysis, what a climate-smart landscape is, what characteristics they share, and how they increase resilience to climate change while reducing carbon emissions or even sequestering a net amount of carbon.
3. Climate-Smart Landscapes: Opportunities and challenges for integrating adaptation and mitigation in tropical agriculture
This journal article co-authored by 10 researchers all associated with LPFN partner organizations, led by Conservation International’s Celia Harvey, specifically establishes that tropical agricultural systems can provide both mitigation and adaptation benefits if they are designed and managed appropriately.
Synergies between adaptation and mitigation are widely available in tropical agriculture, but systems must be redesigned to focus on diversity.
4. Big Facts on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
This sites presents a wealth of data about the interaction between climate change and agriculture in a fascinating series of interactive infographics. The visual presentation allows you to focus in on impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security by region, take a look at the greenhouse gas emissions of the standard western diet, and explore the many positive impacts of climate-smart solutions.
The graphic from the Big Facts website shows direct emissions from agriculture.
5. Farming First’s Climate-Smart Agriculture portal
Find an interesting short video here describing climate-smart agriculture, along with dozens of interesting case studies of climate-smart agriculture in action.
Bonus: The World Food Day video
2016’s World Food Day theme is “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.” Find out more about World Food Day observance around the world.
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