Year: 2014
Type: review
Abstract: The ‘sustainable intensification’ (SI) approach and ‘climate-smart agriculture’ (CSA) are highly complementary. SI is an essential means of adapting to climate change, also resulting in lower emissions per unit of output. With its emphasis on improving risk management, information flows and local institutions to support adaptive capacity, CSA provides the foundations for incentivizing and enabling intensification. But adaptation requires going beyond a narrow intensification lens to include diversified farming systems, local adaptation planning, building responsive governance systems, enhancing leadership skills, and building asset diversity. While SI and CSA are crucial for global food and nutritional security, they are only part of a multi-pronged approach, that includes reducing consumption and waste, building social safety nets, facilitating trade, and enhancing diets.
Institutions: University of Copenhagen, CGIAR, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, International Livestock Research Institute, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Zero hunger
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,200
OpenAlex ID: W2007684262