Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan

African countries are adopting a range of context-specific climate-smart technologies and practices to meet their food security and climate change goals. Improved livestock production is the most prevalent practice, followed by improved water manag...

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spelling okr-10986-339732021-05-25T09:54:32Z Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan World Bank CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT DESERTIFICATION VALUE CHAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE CLIMATE RESILIENCE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS LAND MANAGEMENT DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY African countries are adopting a range of context-specific climate-smart technologies and practices to meet their food security and climate change goals. Improved livestock production is the most prevalent practice, followed by improved water management, conservation agriculture, agroforestry, and, notably, digital agriculture. The application of digital technology in the design and delivery of integrated weather and market advisories using big data analytics is increasingly helping countries identify conditions that may endanger food security and inform farmers’ decisions to adequately respond to and, when possible, capitalize on, the changing conditions. 2020-06-24T19:45:44Z 2020-06-24T19:45:44Z 2020-06 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/242111592504568447/Climate-Smart-Agriculture-Implementation-Brief-A-Summary-of-Insights-and-Upscaling-Opportunities-through-the-Africa-Climate-Business-Plan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33973 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 Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
DESERTIFICATION
VALUE CHAIN
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
LAND MANAGEMENT
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
spellingShingle CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
DESERTIFICATION
VALUE CHAIN
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
LAND MANAGEMENT
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan
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Sub-Saharan Africa
description African countries are adopting a range of context-specific climate-smart technologies and practices to meet their food security and climate change goals. Improved livestock production is the most prevalent practice, followed by improved water management, conservation agriculture, agroforestry, and, notably, digital agriculture. The application of digital technology in the design and delivery of integrated weather and market advisories using big data analytics is increasingly helping countries identify conditions that may endanger food security and inform farmers’ decisions to adequately respond to and, when possible, capitalize on, the changing conditions.
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author World Bank
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title Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan
title_short Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan
title_full Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan
title_fullStr Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan
title_full_unstemmed Climate-Smart Agriculture Implementation Brief : A Summary of Insights and Upscaling Opportunities through the Africa Climate Business Plan
title_sort climate-smart agriculture implementation brief : a summary of insights and upscaling opportunities through the africa climate business plan
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/242111592504568447/Climate-Smart-Agriculture-Implementation-Brief-A-Summary-of-Insights-and-Upscaling-Opportunities-through-the-Africa-Climate-Business-Plan
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