Many researchers across the world wish to understand how CSA related to Sustainable Agriculture? Are they the same thing?
Climate smart Agriculture focus principally on Environmental factors only; greenhouse gas emissions and its sequestration. Sustainable Agriculture is broader and focus on environmental aspects, social aspects, technological and economic aspects. So, they differ in terms of focus. The concept of climate smart Agriculture has emerged because of the pressing need to address climate change, so its focus is correctly on decarbonization of Agriculture.
Climate smart Agriculture (CSA) is on Adaptation to changing climate (an environmental issue) and reducing Greenhouse gas emissions (an environmental issue); clearly more specific. Sustainable Agriculture has a broader focus which includes socio-political and economic considerations, in the addition to the enviromental considerations.
Dear Benson Turyasingura. You asked a good question.
There is definitely a positive and negative correlation between (CSA) and (SA) components.
But, because the components (CSA) and (SA) are many in the target society, Dr. (@Joseph) statements can be somewhat correct.
Climate smart Agriculture ensure reduction on inputs especially where companion cropping is used such as use of legume cereal mixtures or the perennial legume cover crops like Desmodium in the Push-Pull systems for fall army worm control and soil fertilization.
Intensive agriculture aiming at increasing crop productivity to save the growing population uses high input and degrades the soil's inherent productive capacity. Soil degradation increases the vulnerability of agroecological systems to climate change and food insecurity. Transportation of agricultural inputs such as pesticides and fertilizers and use of farm implements for different activities increase the production of greenhouse gases making agriculture contribute to 23% of greenhouse gases produced. On the other hand, climate-smart agriculture focuses on practices that emit less amount of greenhouse gases such as the use of pesticidal plants instead of synthetic pesticides, the use of mulches, crop rotation and intercropping, planting crop covers and compost instead of synthetic fertilizers the way to sustainable agriculture.
Yes, certainly! Climate smart agriculture (CSA) is an important strategy to overcome the vagaries of climate changes and ensure sustainability of agriculture in the long run. CSA offers several benefits as large number of studies from across the world demonstrate. But there are constraints and challenges in terms of ensuring a wider adoption of CSA practices across farming communities, who are deficient in terms of resources, knowledge and skills, access to technologies, extension and R&D systems, etc, which need more thrust in the policies and actions enunciated by the national governments. Appropriate strategies and actions are also required to foster better co-ooperation and networking between the various stakeholders in the broader domain of agriculture as well as marketing and trade of agricultural commodities, so that the farmers practising CSA are adequately rewarded and thereby ensuring greater benefits and wellbeing.
Climate-smart agriculture and sustainable agriculture are more or less the same but there are some differences, as pr the pillars of CSA directed that increase agricultural productivity,
reduce Green House gasses, and increase farmers' income which means CSA also includes an environmental and socioeconomic phenomenon, on the other hand, sustainable agriculture state that agricultural production could meet the food demand for the present as well as future generations.
Yes.
CSA may come at one of the top priority in the list of climate actions.
Latest technology of Hydroponic farming and traditional way of ORGANIC FARMING both are directly relavant to GHGs emissions, Water consumption, Food security, and health.
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This link covers: Organic Farming part with solutions.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356988008_Salt_affected_Soil_addressal_by_organic_Fertilizer_pesticides
Dear Dr. Benson Turyasingura , as climatic conditions change, Climate-Smart Agriculture [CSA] has to address the problem of limited access to agricultural equipment that is specific to CSA and consider different climate-smart agriculture [CSA] practices at the farm level, taking into account the need to resort to larger farm sizes for raising livestock and crops as a well-justified fact given that animals may provide the necessary “agricultural home” for activities related to “sustainable agriculture” and may thereby improving any decision made in the context of Climate-Smart Agriculture [CSA] initiatives
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Yes, CSA is meant to make Agriculture Sustainable, Sustainable agriculture cannot be attained without Adaption and Mitigation (Reducing Green House gases Release). Most of the practices are either same, similar or almost the same like cover cropping, mix farming, use of organic fertilizer so as not to deplete the soil micro organisms, Irrigation during dry season, mulching, use of drought / Disease tolerant/ Resistant seeds, water conservation practices.
So CSA is one of the Sustainable Agriculture Approach.
Sustainable Agriculture encompasses several practices among which Climate smart agriculture (CSA) falls in the category.
Sustainable agriculture is meant to meet society's food and textile needs in the present without compromising the ability of future, and the process to make agricultural practices more ecological friendly, reducing farm emissions, carbon farming for healthy soils, is climate smart agriculture. To have sustainable agriculture, climate smart agriculture is one of the method
Climate smart Agriculture aims at sustainability. Therefore activities, processes and research that aims at making climate smart agriculture can be included in sustainability ranking.
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Climate Smart Agriculture Building Resilience to Climate Change
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"Smallholder farms and rural communities in developing countries are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate change will exacerbate existing challenges of resource scarcity, credit constraints, infrastructure limitations, and incomplete information and markets. There is already evidence of the perception and reality of climate shocks, and a growing need for effective adaptation strategies. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is a framework for developing decision support systems at the farm and policy level. It aims to provide principles to identify technologies, management tools, and policies that will enable farmers to adapt to challenges of climate change while maintaining and improving societal wellbeing.
Climate smart policies will develop mechanisms to monitor climate and other conditions, assess situations, and be able to respond to changing realities. Furthermore, policies need to enhance resilience and capacity to adapt to changing agro-climatic conditions. These policies will be part of an overall policy environment that aims at sustainable development, namely assuring that the current generation will continue experiencing increased food security while the next generation will not be worse off than the current one.
Development and resilience in many regions is constrained by lack of access to markets (inputs and outputs), as well as financial constraints. Investment in physical infrastructure can reduce some of these constraints by reducing the cost of doing business, but there is a need for improved institutional capacity. There is a need to expand and improve the supply chains of credit and farm-level inputs and outputs. Developing such supply chains requires strong involvement of the private sector, sometimes in partnership with the public sector, within an improved policy environment. For example, private investment in storage and product processing capacity can be augmented and coordinated with public investment in improved physical infrastructure and training. Public-private partnerships can be established to share risk and obtain finance for joint projects.
Developing evaluation procedures to assess outcomes on efficiency and equity measurements will allow for creating targeting criteria. Thus policies will vary across location and over time to reflect differences in expected net benefit. Furthermore, one of the challenges of climate smart policies is to develop financial mechanisms and political initiatives that will expand the range of resources available for investment."
Dear Dr. Benson Turyasingura,
As climatic conditions change, Climate-Smart Agriculture [CSA] has to address the problem of limited access to agricultural equipment that is specific to CSA and consider different climate-smart agriculture [CSA] practices at the farm level, taking into account the need to resort to larger farm sizes for raising livestock and crops as a well-justified fact given that animals may provide the necessary “agricultural home” for activities related to “sustainable agriculture” and may thereby improving any decision made in the context of Climate-Smart Agriculture [CSA] initiatives
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