Malawi, Zambia & Vietnam test climate-smart farming
Creative Commons: United Nations, 2011
Malawi, Zambia and Vietnam will take part in a new project to transition to climate-smart agriculture. The goal is to help farmers adapt to climate change, while helping to control farming’s carbon emissions.
The EU and U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization are funding the $6.7 million initiative.
FAO’s Wendy Mann is a special advisor to the project called: Climate-Smart Agriculture – Capturing the Synergies between Mitigation, Adaptation and Food security.
She said, “Climate-smart agriculture is defined as growth in agricultural incomes and productivity to support food security and poverty reduction. And to do this you need to incorporate necessary adaptation to changing climate conditions, but also trying to capture the potential mitigation benefits, which could bring financing to some of the agricultural development goals of those countries.”
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