Proponents of "climate-smart agriculture" claim that their approaches aim to achieve a "triple win" of increasing food security, adaptation and mitigation.
The tool helps measure outcomes related to increased productivity, food security, adaptation, resilience, and mitigation, and could be instrumental in helping countries measure progress towards established targets.
These initiatives are having a widespread impact on food security, adaptation to climate change and climate change mitigation, and are being implemented over vast areas and improving the lives of millions of people.
Reducing loss of soil carbon in agricultural soils, maintaining carbon-rich organic soils such as peatlands, and restoring and improving degraded agricultural lands all play an important role in addressing the three-fold challenge of food security, adaptation of food systems to climate change, and the mitigation of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
To carry out analysis, EPIC uses analytical tools and methodologies to understand the synergies and tradeoffs between food security, adaptation to and mitigation of climate change.
Analyzes potential synergies among food security, adaptation and mitigation from land-based agricultural practices; indicates promising mitigation options with synergies, options that involve trade-offs, options for required financing.
Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, distribution, habitat, food, behavior, adaptations, and conservation status.
These traces also preserve major innovations in soil ecosystems that include food hoarding, adaptations to disturbance from flooding and precipitation, enduring unpredictable hypercapnic and hypoxic conditions, and reproductive strategies by employing a subterranean, hemimetabolous or holometabolous life cycle.
Emily Mann Environmental planning; sustainability and climate change adaptation; food and water systems; environmental justice.
