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Voiceover by Russell Isaac, Senior Consultant at Sports Media Services.
Transcript:
The term “climate-smart agriculture” or CSA was coined by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2010. It encapsulates the need for agriculture in developing countries to undergo a significant transformation (if the challenges of food security in the face of climate change are to be met).
And those challenges are many – Himalayan snow and ice that provide vast amounts of water for agriculture in Asia are expected to decline by 20% in the next decade.
Models suggest that climate change may lead to a decline in rice production of 14% in South Asia, and these changes particularly affect resource-poor smallholder farmers. Their agricultural operations tend to be barely profitable and are often environmentally unsustainable.
If, as expected, the world’s population reaches 9 billion by 2050, a 70% increase in total agricultural production will be required.
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CSA is an approach that helps guide actions to transform agri-food systems towards green and climate-resilient practices. CSA supports reaching internationally agreed goals such as the SDGs and the Paris Agreement.
It aims to tackle three main objectives: sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes, adapting and building resilience to climate change, and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible.
Click here to learn more about CSA in South Asia.
