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Policy Brief: Opportunities and Challenges for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-17T16:20:23Z
dc.date.available2017-02-17T16:20:23Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractAgriculture is the economic foundation of many Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, employing about 60 percent of the workforce and contributing an average of 30 percent of gross domestic product. Yet agricultural growth rates for SSA declined in the 2000 and food insecurity remains a concern, with malnourishment only dropping from 34 to 30 percent in two decades. Various projections suggest that food production must increase by 70-100 percent by 2050 to meet the demands of a world with 9 billion people and changing diets. In SSA this will require considerable investments in agricultural development-research, institutional support and infrastructural development. Ensuring food security under a changing climate is one of the major challenges of our era. African agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change. Climate-smart agriculture seeks to increase productivity in an environmentally and socially sustainable way, strengthen farmers' resilience to climate change, and reduce agriculture's contribution to climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon storage on farmland. Climate-smart agriculture includes proven practical techniques-such as mulching, intercropping, conservation agriculture, crop rotation, integrated crop-livestock management, agroforestry, improved grazing, and improved water management-but also innovative practices such as better weather forecasting, early warning systems and risk insurance. Climate-smart agriculture fully incorporates attention to climate risk management. Climate-smart agriculture offers some unique opportunities to tackle food security, adaptation and mitigation objectives. African countries will particularly benefit from climate-smart agriculture given the central role of agriculture as a means to poverty alleviation and the major negative impacts that climate change is likely to have on the African continent.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/111461468202139478/Policy-brief-opportunities-and-challenges-for-climate-smart-agriculture-in-Africa
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/26079
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/26079
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectADAPTIVE CAPACITY OF FARMERS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL ADAPTATION
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL EMISSIONS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL EXPANSION
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL GROWTH
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRACTICES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL SECTOR
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE SECTOR
dc.subjectATMOSPHERIC CARBON
dc.subjectATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE
dc.subjectBIOMASS
dc.subjectBIOMASS BURNING
dc.subjectCARBON
dc.subjectCARBON CAPTURE
dc.subjectCARBON IN BIOMASS
dc.subjectCARBON MARKETS
dc.subjectCARBON SEQUESTRATION
dc.subjectCARBON STORAGE
dc.subjectCH4
dc.subjectCLIMATE
dc.subjectCLIMATE ADAPTATION
dc.subjectCLIMATE AGENDA
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIES
dc.subjectCLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS
dc.subjectCLIMATE RESILIENCE
dc.subjectCLIMATE RISK
dc.subjectCLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectCLIMATE-RELATED DISASTERS
dc.subjectCROP
dc.subjectCROP ROTATION
dc.subjectCROP YIELDS
dc.subjectDEFORESTATION
dc.subjectDEPENDENCE ON AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectDROUGHT
dc.subjectEMISSION
dc.subjectEMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
dc.subjectEXTREME CONDITIONS
dc.subjectEXTREME WEATHER
dc.subjectFARM
dc.subjectFARM INCOMES
dc.subjectFARMERS
dc.subjectFARMING
dc.subjectFEASIBILITY
dc.subjectFERMENTATION
dc.subjectFERTILISER
dc.subjectFLOODS
dc.subjectFOOD INSECURITY
dc.subjectFOOD POLICY
dc.subjectFOOD POLICY RESEARCH
dc.subjectFOOD PRICES
dc.subjectFOOD PRODUCTION
dc.subjectFOOD SECURITY
dc.subjectFOOD SYSTEMS
dc.subjectFOREST
dc.subjectFOREST DEGRADATION
dc.subjectFOREST STOCKS
dc.subjectFORESTRY
dc.subjectFORESTS
dc.subjectFRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectFUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectGHG
dc.subjectGLOBAL CLIMATE
dc.subjectGLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectGLOBAL EMISSIONS
dc.subjectGLOBAL FOOD
dc.subjectGLOBAL FOOD SECURITY
dc.subjectGLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS
dc.subjectGRAIN CROPS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS CONCENTRATIONS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION
dc.subjectIMPACT OF CLIMATE
dc.subjectIMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectINSURANCE
dc.subjectINTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
dc.subjectIPCC
dc.subjectLAND COVER CHANGE
dc.subjectLAND-USE CHANGE
dc.subjectLIVESTOCK INSURANCE
dc.subjectLIVESTOCK KEEPERS
dc.subjectLIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectLIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
dc.subjectMAIZE
dc.subjectMETHANE
dc.subjectNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES
dc.subjectNEGATIVE IMPACT
dc.subjectNEGATIVE IMPACTS
dc.subjectNITROUS OXIDE
dc.subjectORGANIC MATTER
dc.subjectPHOTOSYNTHESIS
dc.subjectPOLICY IMPLICATIONS
dc.subjectPP
dc.subjectRAIN
dc.subjectRESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectRICE
dc.subjectRICE PRODUCTION
dc.subjectSCENARIOS
dc.subjectSEASON
dc.subjectSOIL CARBON
dc.subjectTEMPERATURE
dc.subjectTEMPERATURE RISE
dc.subjectTROPICS
dc.subjectWEATHER PATTERNS
dc.subjectWORLD FOOD PROGRAMME
dc.titlePolicy Briefen
dc.title.subtitleOpportunities and Challenges for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africaen
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okr.crossref.titlePolicy Brief
okr.date.disclosure2013-03-26
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-07T11:36:50.396212Z
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Policy Note
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/111461468202139478/Policy-brief-opportunities-and-challenges-for-climate-smart-agriculture-in-Africa
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum17486177
okr.identifier.report76247
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/111461468202139478/pdf/762470WP0CSA0P00Box374367B00PUBLIC0.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
okr.topicAgriculture::Climate Change and Agriculture
okr.topicEnvironment::Adaptation to Climate Change
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change and Environment
okr.unitAFRDE - Development Effective. (AFRDE)
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