Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture : Considerations for Economic and Financial Analyses of Climate-Smart Agriculture Projects

Climate change poses a major threat to food systems and livelihoods all over the world. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses these challenges. CSA stands for including climate change into the planning and implementation of sustainable agricult...

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Language:English
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spelling okr-10986-322792021-05-25T09:27:04Z Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture : Considerations for Economic and Financial Analyses of Climate-Smart Agriculture Projects World Bank CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS CLIMATE RESILIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS LIVESTOCK CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT CARBON PRICING DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT Climate change poses a major threat to food systems and livelihoods all over the world. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses these challenges. CSA stands for including climate change into the planning and implementation of sustainable agricultural strategies. More specifically, CSA has three objectives to achieve these overarching goals: (1) sustainably increasing agricultural productivity to support equitable increases in incomes and food security; (2) adapting and building resilience to climate change from the farm to national levels; and (3) developing opportunities to reduce GHG emissions from agriculture (FAO 2013). The report is structured as follows: the report starts with a brief overview of the framework for economic and financial analyses in section two; section three, provides an overview of benefit and cost categories that are relevant for CSA; section four, provides descriptions of 10 salient features of CSA as may be relevant for EFAs; section five, presents findings of the review of 10 EFAs of agriculture lending projects; section six, provides a brief overview of techniques or tools that could support the presentation of CSA in EFAs; and section seven concludes. 2019-08-16T18:43:28Z 2019-08-16T18:43:28Z 2019-06-27 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/744811563536732346/Economics-of-Climate-Smart-Agriculture-Considerations-for-Economic-and-Financial-Analyses-of-Climate-Smart-Agriculture-Projects http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32279 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Agricultural Study
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topic CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE
COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
CLIMATE CHANGE
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
LIVESTOCK
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CARBON PRICING
DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT
spellingShingle CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE
COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
CLIMATE CHANGE
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
LIVESTOCK
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CARBON PRICING
DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT
World Bank
Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture : Considerations for Economic and Financial Analyses of Climate-Smart Agriculture Projects
description Climate change poses a major threat to food systems and livelihoods all over the world. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses these challenges. CSA stands for including climate change into the planning and implementation of sustainable agricultural strategies. More specifically, CSA has three objectives to achieve these overarching goals: (1) sustainably increasing agricultural productivity to support equitable increases in incomes and food security; (2) adapting and building resilience to climate change from the farm to national levels; and (3) developing opportunities to reduce GHG emissions from agriculture (FAO 2013). The report is structured as follows: the report starts with a brief overview of the framework for economic and financial analyses in section two; section three, provides an overview of benefit and cost categories that are relevant for CSA; section four, provides descriptions of 10 salient features of CSA as may be relevant for EFAs; section five, presents findings of the review of 10 EFAs of agriculture lending projects; section six, provides a brief overview of techniques or tools that could support the presentation of CSA in EFAs; and section seven concludes.
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title Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture : Considerations for Economic and Financial Analyses of Climate-Smart Agriculture Projects
title_short Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture : Considerations for Economic and Financial Analyses of Climate-Smart Agriculture Projects
title_full Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture : Considerations for Economic and Financial Analyses of Climate-Smart Agriculture Projects
title_fullStr Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture : Considerations for Economic and Financial Analyses of Climate-Smart Agriculture Projects
title_full_unstemmed Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture : Considerations for Economic and Financial Analyses of Climate-Smart Agriculture Projects
title_sort economics of climate-smart agriculture : considerations for economic and financial analyses of climate-smart agriculture projects
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/744811563536732346/Economics-of-Climate-Smart-Agriculture-Considerations-for-Economic-and-Financial-Analyses-of-Climate-Smart-Agriculture-Projects
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