How Agricultural Technology Can Adapt in a Warming World
As part of efforts to move towards “climate-smart” agriculture, several countries have shared in a meeting in Rome new experiences on how to produce food in ways that help farmers cope with the impacts of climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture.
The exchange took place at a special 26 April side-event during a session of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation– FAO’s executive Council.
While countries are embarking on the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions – the actions nations are taking under the Paris Agreement – the event provided an opportunity to learn from countries that have championed climate-smart agriculture in different regions, FAO informed.
Climate-smart agriculture is an approach aimed at transforming food systems. It involves pursuing sustainable productivity increases while implementing climate adaptation strategies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions where possible, to achieve food security in the face of increasing climate change.
In Tanzania, the UN specialised body reports, estimated loss in the agriculture sector due to climate change is about 200 million dollars per year.
To tackle this problem the government has brought the climate agenda in line with agriculture development and food security policies, and climate change considerations are now mainstreamed into national development planning and budget allocations, it added.
Les Chatfield