Case for Climate Smart Agriculture in Addressing the Threat of Climate Change

John Saviour Yaw Eleblu, Eugene Tenkorang Darko, Eric Yirenkyi Danquah

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAfrican Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
Subtitle of host publicationWith 610 Figures and 361 Tables
PublisherSpringer International Publishing
Pages131-145
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9783030451066
ISBN (Print)9783030451059
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2021

Keywords

  • Breeding approaches
  • Climate
  • Climate change
  • Climate smart agriculture
  • Food security

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