Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach aimed at transforming and reorienting existing agricultural systems to support food security and development in a sustainable manner under a changing climate. CSA refers to agricultural practices, which are assumed to sustainably increase productivity, enhance adaptation and resilience, reduce or mitigate where possible greenhouse gases, and enhance the achievement of national food security and development. CSA helps to address a number of important challenges mainly in developing countries, e.g., food security, malnutrition, poverty, and the interdependent relationship between climate change and agriculture. Nevertheless, widespread and upscaling of CSA will be possible if the approach is actually economically viable and efficient in addition to being sustainable.
The goal of this Research Topic is to tackle two apparently contradictory worldviews, i.e., climate-smart agriculture on one hand and the issues of productivity and efficiency of agriculture on the other. This is because the pursuit of productivity and efficiency is considered to be the main realm of conventional and/or modern agriculture, which is resource intensive, fossil fuel hungry and which adversely affects the natural resource base. However, given the pressure to supply more food for the rising world population on a closing arable land frontier with increasing levels of urbanization, there is no guarantee that climate-smart agriculture will be productive and efficient enough to meet the challenge.
This Research Topic is aimed at soliciting original contributions from academics, researchers, practitioners, NGOs and other stakeholders providing theoretical insights and/or empirical analysis focusing on economic viability, productivity and efficiency of CSA technologies that can provide valuable lessons for the future. The Editors encourage submissions applying cross-disciplinary approaches and use of a variety of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodologies in social sciences. The scope of submission includes original research and review articles that address the issues raised above.
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach aimed at transforming and reorienting existing agricultural systems to support food security and development in a sustainable manner under a changing climate. CSA refers to agricultural practices, which are assumed to sustainably increase productivity, enhance adaptation and resilience, reduce or mitigate where possible greenhouse gases, and enhance the achievement of national food security and development. CSA helps to address a number of important challenges mainly in developing countries, e.g., food security, malnutrition, poverty, and the interdependent relationship between climate change and agriculture. Nevertheless, widespread and upscaling of CSA will be possible if the approach is actually economically viable and efficient in addition to being sustainable.
The goal of this Research Topic is to tackle two apparently contradictory worldviews, i.e., climate-smart agriculture on one hand and the issues of productivity and efficiency of agriculture on the other. This is because the pursuit of productivity and efficiency is considered to be the main realm of conventional and/or modern agriculture, which is resource intensive, fossil fuel hungry and which adversely affects the natural resource base. However, given the pressure to supply more food for the rising world population on a closing arable land frontier with increasing levels of urbanization, there is no guarantee that climate-smart agriculture will be productive and efficient enough to meet the challenge.
This Research Topic is aimed at soliciting original contributions from academics, researchers, practitioners, NGOs and other stakeholders providing theoretical insights and/or empirical analysis focusing on economic viability, productivity and efficiency of CSA technologies that can provide valuable lessons for the future. The Editors encourage submissions applying cross-disciplinary approaches and use of a variety of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodologies in social sciences. The scope of submission includes original research and review articles that address the issues raised above.
