New Climate-Smart Agriculture Country Profiles

The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a member of the CGIAR Consortium, has developed seven Climate-Smart Agriculture Country Profiles and two sub-national ones, prepared with the active participation of government ministries and agencies as well as representatives of the private sector and civil society.

Each profile sets the baseline in climate-smart agriculture (CSA) for all or part of one of these seven countries: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Grenada, Mexico, and Peru.

The CSA concept reflects an ambition to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness. It aims to achieve food security and broader development goals under a changing climate and increasing food demand. CSA initiatives sustainably increase productivity, enhance resilience, and reduce/remove greenhouse gases (GHGs), and require planning to address tradeoffs and synergies between these three pillars: productivity, adaptation, and mitigation. The priorities of different countries and stakeholders are reflected to achieve more efficient, effective, and equitable food systems that address challenges in environmental, social, and economic dimensions across productive landscapes.

While the concept is new, and still evolving, many of the practices that make up CSA already exist worldwide and are used by farmers to cope with various production risks. Mainstreaming CSA requires critical stocktaking of ongoing and promising practices for the future, and of institutional and financial enablers for CSA adoption. These country profiles provide snapshots of a developing baseline created to initiate discussion, both within countries and globally, about entry points for investing in CSA at scale.

Access the profiles at: http://ciat.cgiar.org/featured_products/csa-country-profiles