Climate-smart agriculture is a way to achieve short-and-long-term agricultural development priorities in the face of climate change and serves as a bridge to other development priorities. It seeks to support countries and other actors in securing the necessary policy, technical and financial conditions to enable them to:
- Sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes in order to meet national food security and development goals
Build resilience and the capacity of agricultural and food systems to adapt to climate change;
Seek opportunities to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases and increase carbon sequestration.
These three conditions (food security, adaptation and mitigation) are referred to as the “triple win” of climate-smart agriculture.