Sustainable Intensification: What Is Its Role in Climate Smart Agriculture?

By B. M. Campbell, P. K. Thornton, R. Zougmoré, P. V. Asten, Leslie Lipper. 2014

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The ‘sustainable intensification’ (SI) approach and ‘climate-smart agriculture’ (CSA) are highly complementary. SI is an essential means of adapting to climate change, also resulting in lower emissions per unit of output. With its emphasis on improving risk management, information flows and local institutions to support adaptive capacity, CSA provides the foundations for incentivizing and enabling intensification. But adaptation requires going beyond a narrow intensification lens to include diversified farming systems, local adaptation planning, building responsive governance systems, enhancing leadership skills, and building asset diversity. While SI and CSA are crucial for global food and nutritional security, they are only part of a multi-pronged approach, that includes reducing consumption and waste, building social safety nets, facilitating trade, and enhancing diets.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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Adoption of climate‐smart agriculture among smallholder farmers: Does farmer entrepreneurship matter? (2021, background): “CSA encompasses practices and technologies that have the potential to achieve the “triple-win” of increasing food security and incomes, climate change adaptation and mitigation (Campbell et al., 2014).”
Climate change adaptation: a study of multiple climate-smart practices in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia (2019, background): “…over the last few years, a range of climate-smart agriculture approaches have been recommended to build adaptive capacity that enhances resilience while at the same time increasing yields and lowering GHG emissions through soil, water and plant nutrient management (Campbell et al., 2014).”
Climate-smart agriculture: what is it good for? (2018, background): “For the FAO, CSA represented a natural extension to its existing ‘sustainable intensification’ approach tailored to the specific challenges posed by climatic change (Campbell et al. 2014; Loos et al. 2014).”
Does Adoption Of Multiple Climate-Smart Practices Improve Farmers’ Climate Resilience? Empirical Evidence From The Nile Basin Of Ethiopia (2017, background): “2011); secondly, to strengthen farmers’ resilience to climate change; and, thirdly, to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon sinks (FAO 2011; Campbell et al. 2014; Arslan et al. 2014).”
The Dynamics of Climate Change Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Climate-Smart Agriculture among Small-Scale Farmers (2019, background): “give a better insight into the benefits or challenges of CSA adoption [53].”
Climate change adaptation and mitigation in smallholder crop–livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa: a call for integrated impact assessments (2016, background): “Adaptation and mitigation are two of the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), with the third pillar aimed at increasing food security through increased agricultural productivity (Campbell et al. 2014).”
Beyond the agroecological and sustainable agricultural intensification debate: Is blended sustainability the way forward? (2018, unknown): “Campbell et al. (2014).”
The climate-smart village approach : framework of an integrative strategy for scaling up adaptation options in agriculture (2018, background): “Recent analyses indicate that although several CSA programs and on-farm studies were successful, there is only weak uptake of many innovative CSA practices and technologies (Campbell et al. 2014, Westermann et al. 2015).”
Climate-smart agriculture: perspectives and framings (2018, background): “For example, it has been persuasively argued by Campbell et al. (2014) that CSA can mobilize strong government interventions and public support for sustainable production patterns and food distribution systems.”
Nanotechnology in Sustainable Agriculture: Recent Developments, Challenges, and Perspectives (2017, background): “Agricultural nutrient balances are differed noticeably with economic growth, and especially from this surmise, the development of the soil fertility is very much significant in developing countries (Campbell et al., 2014).”