Climate Smart Agriculture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Overview and Conceptual Framework

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction and Overview

      • Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca

      Pages 3-12Open Access

   3. A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and Its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates

      • Leslie Lipper, David Zilberman

      Pages 13-30Open Access

   4. Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: An Overview

      • Nancy McCarthy, Leslie Lipper, David Zilberman

      Pages 31-47Open Access

   5. Innovation in Response to Climate Change

      • David Zilberman, Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, Ben Gordon

      Pages 49-74Open Access

3. Case Studies: Vulnerability Measurements and Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Crop Yield Prediction and River Resource Planning

      • Alan Basist, Ariel Dinar, Brian Blankespoor, David Bachiochi, Harold Houba

      Pages 77-104Open Access

   3. Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDR

      • Drew Behnke, Sam Heft-Neal, David Roland-Holst

      Pages 105-136Open Access

   4. Farmers’ Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia: The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam

      • Hermann Waibel, Thi Hoa Pahlisch, Marc Völker

      Pages 137-160Open Access

   5. U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts

      • Ariel Ortiz-Bobea

      Pages 161-172Open Access

   6. Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts: An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Agriculture

      • Susan M. Capalbo, Clark Seavert, John M. Antle, Jenna Way, Laurie Houston

      Pages 173-197Open Access

4. Case Studies: Policy Response to Improving Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity? Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa

      • Michael R. Carter, Sarah A. Janzen, Quentin Stoeffler

      Pages 201-225Open Access

   3. Can Cash Transfer Programmes Promote Household Resilience? Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Solomon Asfaw, Benjamin Davis

      Pages 227-250Open Access

   4. Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture: Current Realities and Future Potential

      • Tom S. Jayne, Nicholas J. Sitko, Nicole M. Mason, David Skole

      Pages 251-273Open Access

5. Case Studies: System Level Response to Improving Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275

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   2. Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria

      • Valentina Mereu, Monia Santini, Raffaello Cervigni, Benedicte Augeard, Francesco Bosello, E. Scoccimarro et al.

      Pages 277-306Open Access

   3. Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems

      • John M. Antle, Sabine Homann-KeeTui, Katrien Descheemaeker, Patricia Masikati, Roberto O. Valdivia

      Pages 307-333Open Access

   4. Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate

      • Thomas Reardon, David Zilberman

      Pages 335-351Open Access

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.

The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation.  Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of CSA. Focusing on the adaptation/resilience dimension of CSA, the text embraces a mixture of conceptual analyses, including theory, empirical and policy analysis, and case studies, to look at adaptation and resilience through three possible avenues: ex-ante reduction of vulnerability, increasing adaptive capacity, and ex-post risk coping.

The book is divided into three sections. The first section provides conceptual framing, giving an overview of the CSA concept and grounding it in core economic principles. The second section is devoted to a set of case studies illustrating the economic basis of CSA in terms of reducing vulnerability, increasing adaptive capacity and ex-post risk coping. The final section addresses policy issues related to climate change. Providing information on this new and important field in an approachable way, this book helps make sense of CSA and fills intellectual and policy gaps by defining the concept and placing it within an economic decision-making framework. This book will be of interest to agricultural, environmental, and natural resource economists, development economists, and scholars of development studies, climate change, and agriculture. It will also appeal to policy-makers, development practitioners, and members of governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in agriculture, food security and climate change.

• Climate Smart Agriculture
• climate change
• food security
• agricultural development
• adaptation
• resilience
• open access

“The book brings together research, analysts and opinions of leading experts to develop the conceptual, empirical evidence and policy basis for CSA. This aspect of knowledge integration would be one of the core values added as no other book does this in one place. … I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in this field of study.” (Ali M. Oumer, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 63 (1), 2019)

• ISPC-CGIAR, Roma, Italy

  Leslie Lipper

• Lead Analytics Inc., Washington, DC, USA

  Nancy McCarthy

• Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

  David Zilberman

• FAO of the UN, Roma, Italy

  Solomon Asfaw

• Department of Economics, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

  Giacomo Branca