The relationships among climate change, agriculture and food security are complex and dynamic. A delegation from nacsaa participated in cop 25 to carry the message that todays agricultural renaissance deserves global recognition. Climatesmart agriculture will serve as a new promotional space for the planets worst social and environmental offenders in agriculture. Launching the global alliance on climatesmart agriculture. The most commonly used definition is agriculture that sustainably increases productivity, enhances resilience adaptation, reducesremoves ghgs mitigation where possible, and enhances achievement of national food security and development goalsfao 20. The global institutional landscape of food and agriculture. Global alliance for climate smart agriculture the vision of the alliance is to improve peoples food security and nutrition in the face of climate change.
Climate smart agriculture is a recent concept and approach launched by fao. Since its launch in 2014 the global alliance for climate smart agriculture gacsa has consolidated as a platform where people and institutions come together to work on solutions regarding technical, policy and investment issues required to achieve sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition in the face of climate change. Climatesmart agriculture overseas development institute. Saharan africa, and puts forward principles and ideas for a reformed food and agriculture global landscape. Climatesmart agriculture csa may be defined as an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural development under the new realities of climate change lipper et al. The alliance is producerled and focused on utilizing climatesmart agriculture csa strategies to enhance the adaptive capacity of north america agriculture. Globally, direct agricultural practices generate 1012% of ghgs. Climate summit and the executive order on climate resilient international development. Agriculture and food production, and the people who depend on them, will be severely and increasingly impacted by climate change.
Climatesmart agriculture csa is taking on an increasingly higher profile through efforts such as the september 2014 launch of the global alliance on climate smart agriculture gacsa at the u. Of course, this concept of climate smart agriculture could help focus attention on critical issues. Gacsas knowledge action group has developed a compendium that provides examples of more than 20 different approaches of how agricultural extension can support climate smart agriculture, with contributions from seventeen institutions and over 30 contributors worldwide please click on the image below to read the full compendium. Sfl functions as the fiduciary agent for the alliance and serves as the nacsaa secretariat. How climate smart agriculture can help in countries where the economy is heavily based on agriculture, development of the agricultural sector is the most efficient poverty reduction measure.
The idea was born eight months ago, when an international delegation of leadersincluding many from the usda, the state department, and usaidmet in south africa for the global conference on climate change, food security, and agriculture. An inclusive consultative process is urgently needed to streamline sdg 2 actions, which could culminate in an sdg 2 leaders alliance, for stronger global accountability and support at country level. Summary of climatesmart agriculture in the 2017 san sustainable agriculture standard september 2016 233 broadway, 28th floor new york, ny 102792899 tel. Feeding an evergrowing global population is an immense challenge. Africa, or africa climatesmart agriculture alliance, is designed to support the rapid scalingup of climatesmart agriculture csa across africa, through the collaborative efforts and practical, ontheground experience of alliance members in agricultural research and implementation. A coalition formed by 14 governments and 32 organizations will aim to enable 500 million farmers around the world to practice climatesmart agriculture. Interested members, including mr ernie shea north american climate smart agriculture alliance and mr mark manis usda, may contact the facilitator. Integrating climate smart agriculture into policy, strategies and planning at regional, national, and local levels and across landscapes. In its climate change action plan, the world bank committed to working with countries to deliver climatesmart agriculture that achieves the triple win of increased productivity, enhanced resilience, and reduced emissions. National climatesmart agriculture and food security action. How climatesmart agriculture can help in countries where the economy is heavily based on agriculture, development of the agricultural sector is the most efficient poverty reduction measure. It is a theme we have seen in a number of recent reports by leading organizations, including. Global alliance for climatesmart agriculture climate initiatives. The mission of the alliance is to address the challenges facing food security and agriculture by tapping the wealth and diversity of resources, knowledge, information and expertise, from and between its members, in order to.
The proposed global alliance on climatesmart agriculture seems to be yet another strategy by powerful players to prop up industrial agriculture, which undermines the basic human right to food. Agriculture will be dedicated to preparing gacsas engagement at the event in bonn. Although its currently below the radar, both public and privatesector. Productivity, mitigation and adaptation actions can take place at different technological, organizational, institutional and political levels. Yet agricultural expansion for food production and economic development which comes at the expense of soil, water, biodiversity or forests.
The programme related to agriculture must include measures which improves productivity, farm income, minimizes the risk to climate change effect, and reduces the green house gas emission. Gacsa is an independent alliance, governed by its members through a strategic committee and its cochairs. Activities online consultation held between 829 april 2014 to identify the major knowledge priorities and key areas of work. Climate smart methods are part of our 2017 sustainable agriculture standard and will be even more central in our upcoming new standard. Adaptive management involves responses taken by producers and the value chain to. Bulletin of the aquaculture association of canada, 104. Agriculture and food systems are heavily influenced by socioeconomic conditions such as changing patterns of consumption, macroeconomic policies, political conflict and the spread of disease. Global alliance for climatesmart agriculture climate. Climatesmart agriculture csa is an approach that helps to guide actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate. North american climate smart agriculture alliance nacsaa. Thats why today were announcing the launch of the global alliance for climate smart agriculture. It also highlights concerns and flaws identified in. Climate smart agriculture alliance nacsaa to conduct a threeyear climate.
The rainforest alliance has long been at the forefront of developing and implementing climate smart agriculture solutions. Hegadorn led negotiations to create the global alliance for climate smart agriculture, negotiated the overhaul of the uns fao and the committee on world food security, and helped negotiate the return of u. The new global alliance on climate smart agriculture states that it aims to be the forum to deliver the necessary thinking, exchange and action that can enable farming to deal with the impacts, and reduce its contribution to climate change. The action plan is therefore an effort to translate to the ground level the broad national goals and objectives in climate smart agriculture. The alliance concerns itself with avoidance and adaptation measures with regard to climate change in agriculture. The sustainability of efforts to feed record global populations is significantly threatened as agricultural systems suffer increasing unpredictability of weather and longterm shifts in climate.
The objectives of the action groups is to provide the services and address knowledge gaps required by members and other entities to undertake their csa upscaling actions and interventions. Jan 21, 2020 our commitment to climate smart agriculture. Climate smart agriculture csa is taking on an increasingly higher profile through efforts such as the september 2014 launch of the global alliance on climate smart agriculture gacsa at the u. National climatesmart agriculture and food security. Summary of climate smart agriculture in the 2017 san sustainable agriculture standard september 2016 233 broadway, 28th floor new york, ny 102792899 tel. As climate change impacts expand in reach and severity, global food systems face risks of reduced agricultural production, market volatility, and threats to rural livelihoods and food security foley et al.
Gacsa global alliance for climatesmart agriculture gafsp global agriculture and food security program gain global alliance for improved nutrition hlpe high level panel of experts on food security and nutrition of the cfs hltf high level task force iadb interamerican development bank ida international development association. An alliance of partners created to stimulate accelerated scaling up of csa and thereby facilitating. Oct 17, 2014 the dutch prime minister, mark rutte, announced the launch of the new global alliance for climate smart agriculture, involving governments, corporations, research institutes and ngos. Since the 1 january fao is hosting the facilitation unit of gacsa with is supported through a multi donor trust fund. Why climatesmart agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Agriculture affects and is affected by climate change in a wide range of ways and there are numerous entry points for initiating csa programmes or enhancing existing activities. Global alliance for climatesmart agriculture gacsa. Global alliance for climatesmart agriculture launched. Leslie lipper, senior environmental economnist at the food and agriculture organisation of the united nations, explains climate smart agriculture bruce campbell, program director of the cgiar research program on climate change, agriculture and food security, talks about climate change and the future of food security.
A short history of the evolution of the climate smart. Climate smart agriculture csa may be defined as an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural development under the new realities of climate change lipper et al. The international alliance on climatesmart agriculture project was funded by the ministry of environment, land and sea of italy imels and implemented by fao, in order to advance knowledgesharing, learning and partnershipbuilding around the csa approach and to create a global alliance for climatesmart agriculture gacsa. Global alliance on climate smart agriculture aodaniel hayduk. Feb 21, 2017 thats why today were announcing the launch of the global alliance for climate smart agriculture. Sep 28, 2015 moreover, the concept of climate smart agriculture as used by the global alliance does not involve any criteria to define what can or cannot be called climate smart, nor any criteria for membership in the alliance itself concretely, almost everything can be considered climatesmart by the members of the global alliance, including the extensive use of gmos or chemical fertilizers. Launch of an alliance on climate smart agriculture acsa to provide a mechanism to coordinate and support the global adoption of csa. Launching the global alliance on climate smart agriculture.
Gacsa is an inclusive, voluntary and actionoriented multistakeholder platform on climatesmart agriculture csa. Global alliance for climatesmart agriculture gacsa m. Global alliance of climatesmart agriculture impactfulaid. Add to that deforestation, and agri culture accounts for 25% of global ghg emissions. The second part of this paper focuses on the global alliance for climatesmart agriculture. Climate change, agriculture and food security ccafs.
The various projects are the result of multilevel activities carried out to identify the technical. Climate smart, sustainable agriculture gmo answers. The sustainability of efforts to feed record global populations is significantly threatened as agricultural systems suffer increasing unpredictability of weather and longterm shifts in. North america climate smart agriculture alliance adaptive. Gacsa csa documents gacsa global alliance for climate. Mar 01, 2015 therefore a need to focus on climate smart agriculture is derived from the existing challenges.
Climate smart agriculture csa appeared as a concept on the policy agenda in 2009 and comes from an increased concern within the global development community in general, and within the fao in particular, regarding the impacts of climate change on global food security. Csa into policies, strategies, planning and funding mechanisms, at the global, regional, national, and local levels, and across landscapes and issues. One year ago, a global alliance for climate smart agriculture was launched in new york. It aims for a form of agriculture that is highly productive and adequately considers social and ecological aspects. Its vision is to improve food security, nutrition and resilience in the face of climate change. Public disclosure authorized climatesmart healthcare. Summary of climatesmart agriculture in the 2017 san. The policy document national climatesmart agriculture and food security action plan of ghana 20162020 provides the implementation framework for an effective development of climatesmart agriculture in the ground.
On september 29, the united nations food and agriculture organization fao director general jose graziano da silva issued a call for climate smart agriculture and a paradigm shift towards sustainable agriculture and family farming. The global alliance for climatesmart agriculture welcomes new coordinator simon leiva. Nov 27, 2014 the government says that the global alliance for climate smart agriculture gacsa will have a key role to play at the global level. To help you navigate these myriad entry points we have grouped them under. The wbg portfolio will also increase its focus on impact at scale and be rebalanced to have a greater focus on adaptation. Readings and videos climatesmart agriculture guide. Climatesmart agriculture overseas development institute odi. Its development has been made possible through the active engagement of various public and private institutions and organizations in ghana. Why climatesmart agriculture isnt all its cracked up to. The alliance will help governments, farmers, scientists, businesses, and civil society, as well as regional unions and international organizations, to adjust agricultural, forestry. Name of initiative, global alliance for climatesmart agriculture gacsa. About gacsa global alliance for climatesmart agriculture. The north american climate smart agriculture alliance.
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