Climate-Smart Agriculture an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change

The concept of climate-smart agriculture indicates a desire to better integrate agricultural development and climate responsiveness. Under a changing climate and rising food demand, it attempts to achieve food security and broader development goals. Its goals are to increase agricultural output and incomes in a sustainable manner, adapt to and build resilience to climate change, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, climate-smart agriculture was introduced to combat challenges faced by farmers especially in Sub-Sahara African countries that is food supply and quality affected by climate change. Therefore, agroforestry, change in planting dates, conservation agriculture, organic farming are some of climate-smart agricultural practices implemented in Sub-Sahara Africa. Generally, the effects of climate-smart agricultural practices and technologies is effective on agricultural production. The farmland for smallholder farmers that have incorporated agroforestry, organic farming, conservation agriculture, changing in planting dates, soil and water conservation practices production has increased. As well as resilience to effects of climate change and variability.

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Petros Chavula es un hombre que actualmente reside en la ciudad de Lusaka, Zambia. Es licenciado en Ciencias Agroforestales. Actualmente está cursando un máster en Economía Agrícola y Agricultura Climáticamente Inteligente. Mantiene un gran interés por la redacción de artículos y el trabajo de investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa a corto y largo plazo.