What's Smart About Climate-smart Agriculture? -Marcus Taylor

-FoodFirst.org

Over the past seven years, institutions (such as the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization) have increasingly turned to the rubric of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ to tout the objectives of increased productivity, greater resilience, and a reduction in emissions.

Though climate-smart agriculture’s objectives are laudable, the latest Policy Brief of FoodFirst entitled ‘What’s Smart About Climate-smart Agriculture?’ by Marcus Taylor explores how the framework has been used, at times, to justify business-as-usual industrial agriculture.

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