Introduction to Climate-Smart Agriculture

This course analyses climate change impacts on agriculture, food security and food systems and provides an overview of the main climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in agriculture. It also introduces the Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) approach and describes the 5-step process to implement it.

Audience

This course addresses the subject matter from a technical perspective, but is written for the general public. Individuals who would especially benefit from taking the course include:

• Policy makers
• Development practitioners and programme managers
• Sectoral specialists and academics
• Trainers and extension agents

You will learn about

• Climate change and its causes
• Climate change impacts on agriculture, food security and food systems
• The concept of climate change adaptation and mitigation and the related strategies that could be put in place in agriculture
• The CSA approach and the 5-step process to implement it

Duration

• 2 Days