About this website

About this website

CSA Guide is a web portal presenting the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach to food security and sustainable development. It is aimed at practitioners, decision-makers and researchers who work with or are interested in CSA. An extensive portfolio of content, a highly visual design, and user friendly interface will allow users to find specific points of interest or follow the flow of information from the basics section, over entry points to CSA, CSA plan, CSA finance, a resource library and case studies. The website was developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) for the World Bank in collaboration with a range of other partners and institutions.

Project coordination:

Olaf Westermann (CCAFS)

Content management:

Olaf Westermann (CCAFS), Dhanush Dinesh (CCAFS), Sonja Vermuelen (CCAFS/UCPH), Bruce Campbell (CCAFS/UCPH), Tobias Baedeker (World Bank), Marc Sadler (World Bank)

Contributors:

Peter Cooper (CCAFS), Philip Thornton (CCAFS/ILRI), Jim Hansen (CCAFS/IRI), Dough Beare (Globefish Consultancy Services), Melody Braun (IRI), Joost Vervoort (CCAFS/University of Oxford), Mikkel Funder and Julie Fogt Rasmussen (DIIS), Matthew Leete (FAO), Sophia Huyer (WISAT/CCAFS), Catherine Hill (CCAFS/CIAT), Todd Rosenstock (ICRAF), Evan Girvetz (CIAT), Caitlin Corner-Dolloff (CIAT), Alberto Millan (World Bank/CCAFS), Ioannis Vasileiou (World Bank/CCAFS/IFPRI), Tobias Baedeker (World Bank), Olaf Westermann (CCAFS), Dhanush Dinesh (CCAFS), Sonja Vermuelen (CCAFS/UCPH), Bruce Campbell (CCAFS/UCPH)

Website design and development:

Macaroni Bros

Website management:

Lucy Holt (CCAFS), Vanessa Meadu (CCAFS)

Research support and editing:

Snorre Frid-Nielsen (CCAFS), Lili Szilagyi (CCAFS), Magdalena Haman (CCAFS)

Photo credits on landing pages (from top to bottom):

Leocadio S.Sebastian (CCAFS-IRRI), Ray Wiltin (World Bank), Cecilia Schubert (CCAFS), Solomon Kilungu (CCAFS), Georgina Smith (CIAT)

About CCAFS:

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is a strategic partnership of CGIAR and Future Earth, led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). The Program is carried out with funding by CGIAR Fund Donors, Australia (ACIAR), Ireland (Irish Aid), Netherlands (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland (SDC), Thailand, The UK Government (UK Aid), USA (USAID), The European Union (EU). The Program is carried out with technical support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Contact:

CCAFS Program Management Unit - Wageningen University & Research, Lumen building, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands. Email: ccafs@cgiar.org

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The basics

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an integrative approach to address these interlinked challenges of food security and climate change, that explicitly aims for three objectives:

A. Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, to support equitable increases in farm incomes, food security and development;

B. Adapting and building resilience of agricultural and food security systems to climate change at multiple levels; and

C. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture (including crops, livestock and fisheries).

Entry points

Agriculture affects and is affected by climate change in a wide range of ways and there are numerous entry points for initiating CSA programmes or enhancing existing activities. Productivity, mitigation and adaptation actions can take place at different technological, organizational, institutional and political levels. To help you navigate these myriad entry points we have grouped them under three Thematic Areas: (i) CSA practices, (ii) CSA systems approaches, and (iii) Enabling environments for CSA. Each entry point is then described and analysed in terms of productivity, adoption and mitigation potential and is illustrated with cases studies, references and internet links for further information.

Develop a CSA plan

Planning for, implementing and monitoring CSA projects and programmes evolves around issues of understanding the context including identification of major problems/barriers and opportunities related to the focus of the programme; developing and prioritizing solutions and designing plans; implementation; and monitoring and evaluation. Most major development agencies have their own framework for project and programme formulation and management but CCAFS has developed a specific approach for planning, implementing and assessing CSA projects and programme called CSA plan. CSA plan was developed to provide a guide for operationalizing CSA planning, implementation and monitoring at scale. CSA plan consist of four major components: (1) Situation analysis; (2) Targeting and prioritizing; (3) Program support; and (4) Monitoring. evaluation and learning.

Finance

To meet the objectives of CSA, such as agricultural development, food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation, a number of potential funding sources are available. For instance, climate finance sources may be used to leverage agriculture finance and mainstream climate change into agricultural investments. This section offers an overview of potential sources of funding for activities in climate-smart agriculture (CSA) at national, regional and international levels and for a number of different potential ‘clients’ including governments, civil society, development organizations and others. Additionally, it includes options to search among a range of funding opportunities according to CSA focus area, sector and financing instrument.

Resource library

CSA Guide provides a short and concise introduction and overview of the multifaceted aspects of climate-smart agriculture. At the same time it offers links to references and key resources that allows for further investigations and understanding of specific topics of interest. In the resource library we have gathered all the references, key resources, terms and questions in one place for a quick overview and easy access that can be used as a part of or independently of the other sections of the website. The resource library is divided into six sections; (1) References – list all publications, links and blogs referred to on the website; (2) Tools – list all the CSA tools presented on the website; (3) Key terms – explains the most important and frequently used terms related to CSA; (4) Frequently asked questions (FAQ) – provides a rapid overview of the most common questions asked on climate-smart agriculture; (5) About – where you can find out more about the purpose and structure of, as well as on the organizations and authors behind the website; (6) Contact.

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