FAO Cites Use of 'Climate Smart' Agriculture
November 5, 2010| |
Coping with climate change and reducing farming greenhouse gas emissions are challenges that farmers have to contend with. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) notes that in response to these issues, farmers are adopting new techniques of producing food through ‘climate-smart' agriculture.
"A shift to climate-smart agriculture helps advance several important goals: doing so will not only help shield farmers from the adverse effects of climate change and offer a way to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester atmospheric carbon, but can also improve farm yields and household incomes," said Alexander Mueller, FAO Assistant Director-General for Natural Resources.
Examples of farmers' practices include using improved varieties of millet, sorghum and maize; adopting various agroforestry practices that sequester carbon; and following rice farming techniques that use less water. Governments are now taking efforts to reduce vulnerability to climate change, thus providing future adaptation strategies, says FAO.
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