climate smart agriculture

Food Justice: What’s at Stake in Paris?

guest October 4, 2015 0 Comments

guest blog by Doreen Stabinsky, Professor of Global Environmental Politics at College of the Atlantic. Five key fights at the UNFCCC: The build-up to the December Paris climate summit is focusing world attention on the issue of climate change. In the process, there is significant opportunity to raise and highlight justice issues that lie at the intersection of climate change and food – for...

Industrial agriculture ought to move away: agroecology is the only safe option

Maria Escalante October 31, 2013 0 Comments

by Maria It is pretty clear that the planet is increasingly warming up as we keep emitting carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and extracting natural gas from the ground. Or at least it is pretty clear to more than half the world’s population who in recent decades have been dealing with periods of abnormal rainfall, intense floods and droughts, heat waves, and loss of biodiversity. While...

Climate-Smart Agriculture: Not so Smart?

nzidan December 2, 2012 0 Comments

by Nada Zidan "Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) will secure food for all as well as help build resilience for climate change. CSA guarantees increased productivity and income, strong resilience against climate change and variability, as well as reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage on farmlands… In the agricultural sector, adaptation and mitigation have to go hand in...