Abstract
Climate smart agriculture (CSA) embodies a blend of innovations, practices, systems, and investment programmes that are used to mitigate against the adverse effects of climate change and variability on agriculture for sustained food production. Food crop production under various climate change scenarios requires the use of improved technologies that are called climate smart agriculture to ensure increased productivity under adverse conditions of increased global temperatures, frequent and more intense storms, floods and drought stresses. This chapter summarizes available information on climate change and climate smart agriculture technologies. It is important to evaluate each climate change scenario and provide technologies that farmers, research scientists, and policy drivers can use to create the desired climate smart agriculture given the array of tools and resources available.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation |
Subtitle of host publication | With 610 Figures and 361 Tables |
Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
Pages | 131-145 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030451066 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030451059 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2021 |
Keywords
- Breeding approaches
- Climate
- Climate change
- Climate smart agriculture
- Food security