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As countries around the world face urgent agricultural challenges, the concept of 'climate-smart' agriculture (CSA) has been put forward to achieve climate change adaptation, mitigation, and food security synergistically. A new report explores how three countries are using integrated policy approaches to CSA and offers insights for how other countries can build CSA into their policy mix. Brazil has invested in research to support sustainable intensification while creating legal and enforcement mechanisms to protect forest areas as a response to unrestrained agricultural expansion driven by market demand. Ethiopia initiated innovative participatory watershed development programs, in partnership with numerous international institutions, which helped smallholder farmers to rehabilitate marginal land and break out of a poverty cycle. New Zealand has removed agricultural subsidies while partnering on research and development with the private sector as a way to ensure efficiency and resilience in an agricultural sector influenced by climate change and international trade dynamics. To assemble an integrated set of national policies that fosters CSA, governments will need context-specific assessments, strong multi-stakeholder institutions, coordination frameworks, and multi-scale information systems. Governments can select from an array of policy instruments ranging from regulatory mechanisms and economic incentives to public investments and educational campaigns. Many existing national policy goals and public programs designed to increase agricultural production, improve livelihoods, and reduce environmental risks can become important pillars of a national CSA strategy. Countries have obvious interests in fostering an agriculture sector that is climate-resilient, provides national needs for food, fiber, and fuel, and supports farm livelihoods. However, the incentives for national-level action toward reducing global greenhouse gas (GHG) levels are less clear in the absence of serious and shared international commitment. Integrated national CSA policies will be encouraged by clear, consistent signals from multilateral agencies, global donors, and international conventions and trade agreements that promote agriculture as a pathway for poverty reduction and food security.

La Commission sur l'agriculture durable et le changement climatique a examiné les données scientifiques pour identifier un moyen d'atteindre la sécurité alimentaire dans le contexte du changement climatique. Les systèmes alimentaires doivent évoluer de façon à mieux répondre aux besoins humains et, à long terme, s'équilibrer avec les ressources planétaires. Cette évolution nécessitera des interventions majeures tant au niveau local qu'à l'échelle mondiale afin de transformer les modèles actuels de production, de distribution et de consommation alimentaire. L'investissement, l'innovation et un effort délibéré visant à rendre autonomes les populations les plus vulnérables du monde seront nécessaires pour construire un système alimentaire mondial qui s'adapte au changement climatique et assure la sécurité alimentaire tout en minimisant les émissions de gaz à effet de serre et en conservant notre stock de ressources naturelles. Un accroissement important des investissements dans l'agriculture durable, notamment dans une amélioration de l'infrastructure de base et une restauration des écosystèmes dégradés, constitue un composant essentiel du développement économique à long terme. Plus tôt ces mesures seront prises, plus importants en seront les effets.

Business as usual in our globally interconnected food system will not bring us food security and environmental sustainability. Several converging threats – from climate change, population growth and unsustainable use of resources – are steadily intensifying pressure on humanity and world governments to transform the way food is produced, distributed and consumed.

Dans le système alimentaire mondialement interconnecté qui est le nôtre, le statu quo ne nous apportera ni sécurité alimentaire ni durabilité environnementale. Entre le changement climatique, la croissance démographique et l'insoutenabilité de notre consommation des ressources, plusieurs menaces convergentes imposent de plus en plus et de façon constante à l'humanité et aux gouvernements mondiaux un changement des modes de production, de distribution et de consommation de la nourriture.