Leveraging Climate-Smart Agriculture to Address Climate Risk in Africa

Africa is identified as the region most vulnerable to climate change due to its reliance on rainfed agriculture and natural resources. This vulnerability is compounded by megatrends such as urbanization, technology, and a projected population increase to 2.4 billion by 2050, which will strain food, water, and energy supplies. The document proposes climate-smart agriculture as a mechanism for smallholder farmers to adapt to these stressors while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

• Africa is the region most susceptible to climate change because of its heavy reliance on rainfed agriculture and natural resources, combined with low adaptive capacity and stressors like floods and drought.
• Global megatrends, specifically technology, urbanization, and demographics, will intensify economic transformation challenges; notably, Africa's population is expected to reach 2.4 billion by 2050, increasing pressure on ecosystems, energy, water, and food.
• Climate-smart agriculture is presented as a tool to enable smallholder farmers to adapt to climate change and mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

APA

Webmaster (2019). Leveraging Climate-Smart Agriculture to Address Climate Risk in Africa. African Center for Economic Transformation. https://acetforafrica.org/research-and-analysis/insights-ideas/policy-briefs/leveraging-climate-smart-agriculture-to-address-climate-risk-in-africa/

Chicago

Webmaster. Leveraging Climate-Smart Agriculture to Address Climate Risk in Africa. African Center for Economic Transformation, 2019. https://acetforafrica.org/research-and-analysis/insights-ideas/policy-briefs/leveraging-climate-smart-agriculture-to-address-climate-risk-in-africa/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{webmaster2019leveraging, author = {Webmaster}, title = {{Leveraging Climate-Smart Agriculture to Address Climate Risk in Africa}}, institution = {African Center for Economic Transformation}, year = {2019}, month = aug, url = {https://acetforafrica.org/research-and-analysis/insights-ideas/policy-briefs/leveraging-climate-smart-agriculture-to-address-climate-risk-in-africa/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }