Handbook on Climate Smart Agriculture in Myanmar.

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"Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach for developing actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security under climate change. CSA aims to tackle three main objectives: sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes; adapting and building resilience to climate change; and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible (http://www.fao.org/climate-smart-agriculture-sourcebook/concept/en/). FAOs CCA foresee a broader approach, working to build synergies among social protection and climate change to achieve sustainable growth and eliminate rural poverty. FAO uses a “twin-track” approach, on the one hand taking immediate steps to protect and support agriculture, food and nutrition, and on the other addressing in the longer term the underlying factors driving risks, disasters and crises. FAO’s work focuses on developing, protecting and restoring sustainable livelihoods so that the integrity of societies that depend on farming, livestock, fish, forests and other natural resources is not threatened by crises. CSA uses a comprehensive approach in seeking to improve rural livelihoods, increasing the productivity and resilience of poor communities, including rural women and girls, while also providing mitigation benefits. Climate-smart agriculture is a holistic system applicable to big farms cultivating thousands of acres as well as smallholder farmers who live and work on fewer than 10 acres of land. The principles can have positive effects for farmers, the land, water, and wildlife. It helps reduce the negative impacts of climate change to agriculture and boost positive ones, protecting agroecosystems, and promoting healthier, more resilient landscapes, which in the aggregate, contributes to climate change mitigation and food security. Being an agricultural country, Myanmar economy mainly relies on agriculture. In Myanmar, most of the people consider “Agriculture” as the production of crops. However, it has a wider scope not only crop and livestock production but also covers fisheries and forest management. Agriculture sector contributed to 28.6 % of total export earnings in 2015-2016 and employed 61.25 % of the labour force (MOALI, 2017)..."

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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Date of Publication: 

2019-01-01

Date of entry: 

2019-06-14

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  • Individual Documents

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Myanmar

Language: 

English

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pdf

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6.57 MB

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text

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    • Good