Improving assessments of the three pillars of Climate Smart Agriculture: Current achievements and ideas for the future

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationKarlsruhe Institute of Technologyen_US
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen_US
cg.contributor.crpLivestocken_US
cg.contributor.donorFederal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germanyen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierMark van Wijk: 0000-0003-0728-8839en_US
cg.creator.identifierLutz Merbold: 0000-0003-4974-170Xen_US
cg.creator.identifierJames Hammond: 0000-0002-4897-3595en_US
cg.creator.identifierKlaus Butterbach-Bahl: 0000-0001-9499-6598en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.558483en_US
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-FP1_PCSLen_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn2571-581Xen_US
cg.journalFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systemsen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriCLIMATE CHANGEen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen_US
cg.volume22en_US
dc.contributor.authorWijk, Mark T. vanen_US
dc.contributor.authorMerbold, Lutzen_US
dc.contributor.authorHammond, Jamesen_US
dc.contributor.authorButterbach-Bahl, Klausen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-24T11:11:28Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-09-24T11:11:28Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/121941en_US
dc.titleImproving assessments of the three pillars of Climate Smart Agriculture: Current achievements and ideas for the futureen_US
dcterms.abstractIn this study we evaluate Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) assessment tools with regard to their suitability for covering not only biophysical but also socio-economic aspects of CSA, focusing on smallholder household level in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). In this opinion piece we give a concise overview of the most recent developments in measuring key indicators and metrics for the three pillars of CSA (food security, adaptation and mitigation) and give our opinion on how we think this would allow for improvements in the current state of assessing CSA in a smallholder farming context. Our assessment shows that all tools reviewed here have a biophysical lens while looking at productivity, and largely ignore potential social (e.g. food security, gender) and economic (poverty) aspects of the sustainability of intensified production. Mitigation was also analyzed in all approaches but few tools go beyond greenhouse gas emissions to analyse environmental sustainability (for example water quality, soil health, ecosystem services) more generically. Climate change adaptation was the CSA pillar with the weakest representation within the approaches reviewed here. Based on an overview of recent advantages in work focusing on CSA our key recommendations are i) to make better use of recent advances in indicator development for sustainability assessments, including work on quantification of water and land footprints in relation to farm management; ii) to use household level analyses to quantify pathways from productivity towards food security and improved nutrition as well as descripting drivers of adoption of adaptation options; and iii) to use recent advances in system specific quantification of greenhouse gas emissions through both LMIC focused modelling and empirical work.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen_US
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2020-09-22en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationvan Wijk, M.T., Merbold, L., Hammond, J. and Butterbach-Bahl, K. 2020. Improving assessments of the three pillars of Climate Smart Agriculture: Current achievements and ideas for the future. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4:558483.en_US
dcterms.issued2020-09-22en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_US
dcterms.subjectassessmenten_US
dcterms.subjectfood securityen_US
dcterms.subjectadaptationen_US
dcterms.subjectmitigationen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate-smart agricultureen_US
dcterms.subjecthorticultureen_US
dcterms.subjectecologyen_US
dcterms.subjectfood scienceen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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