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Date of publication: 
août 2014
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
10.1186/2048-7010-3-11
Pages: 
39
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© 2014 Steenwerth et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the
 Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use,
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Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses the challenge of meeting the growing demand for food, fibre and fuel, despite the changing climate and fewer opportunities for agricultural expansion on additional lands. CSA focuses on contributing to economic development, poverty reduction and food security; maintaining and enhancing the productivity and resilience of natural and agricultural ecosystem functions, thus building natural capital; and reducing trade-offs involved in meeting these goals. Current gaps in knowledge, work within CSA, and agendas for interdisciplinary research and science-based actions identified at the 2013 Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture (Davis, CA, USA) are described here within three themes: (1) farm and food systems, (2) landscape and regional issues and (3) institutional and policy aspects. The first two themes comprise crop physiology and genetics, mitigation and adaptation for livestock and agriculture, barriers to adoption of CSA practices, climate risk management and energy and biofuels (theme 1); and modelling adaptation and uncertainty, achieving multifunctionality, food and fishery systems, forest biodiversity and ecosystem services, rural migration from climate change and metrics (theme 2). Theme 3 comprises designing research that bridges disciplines, integrating stakeholder input to directly link science, action and governance.

Auteurs et éditeurs

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Kerri L Steenwerth
Amanda K Hodson
Arnold J Bloom
Michael R Carter
Andrea Cattaneo
Colin J Chartres
Jerry L Hatfield
Kevin Henry
Jan W Hopmans
William R Horwath
Bryan M Jenkins
Ermias Kebreab
Rik Leemans
Leslie Lipper
Mark N Lubell
Siwa Msangi
Ravi Prabhu
Matthew P Reynolds
Samuel Sandoval Solis
William M Sischo
Michael Springborn
Pablo Tittonell
Stephen M Wheeler
Sonja J Vermeulen
Eva K Wollenberg
Lovell S Jarvis
Louise E Jackson

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Agriculture & Food Security cover image

Agriculture & Food Security is a peer-reviewed open access journal that addresses the challenge of global food security. It publishes articles within the field of food security research, with a particular focus on research that may inform more sustainable agriculture and food systems that better address local, regional, national and/or global food and nutritional insecurity.

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