Leveraging Climate-Smart Agriculture to Address Climate Risk in Africa

This policy brief from the African Center for Economic Transformation outlines the vulnerability of Africa to climate change and the impact of global megatrends on the region's economic transformation, suggesting climate-smart agriculture as a potential solution for smallholder farmers.

• Africa is the region most susceptible to climate change risks because of its heavy reliance on rainfed agriculture and natural resources. Vulnerability is increased by low adaptive capacity and stressors including floods, drought, and rainfall variability.
• Global megatrends, specifically technology and innovation, urbanisation, and demographics, will intensify the challenges of economic transformation in Africa. Specifically, the population is projected to reach 2.4 billion by 2050, which will increase pressure on ecosystems, energy, water, food, and natural resource supplies.
• Climate-smart agriculture is identified as a method to enable smallholder farmers to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while adapting to climate change.

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} }