The Africa Climate-Smart Agriculture Alliance (ACSAA) aims to ensure 6 million smallholder farmers in Africa are practicing climate-smart agriculture (CSA) within the next 7 years.

Todd Rosenstock, Agroecologist with the World Agroforestry Centre – one of the partners in the Alliance – has outlined how the flexibility of the package of practices under the CSA umbrella “enables the evaluation of the relative importance of food security, adaptation and mitigation in the local context.”

Rosenstock was speaking at a session to discuss the guiding principles of the Alliance and practical applications on the ground during the Global Landscapes Forum, being held on the sidelines of the UN climate change talks in Lima, Peru.

An article on the website of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) reports on how the Alliance brings together the public sector and research and civil society organizations to scale up on-farm assistance, link to technological advances and support a favorable policy environment for CSA.

The Alliance will address multi-sectoral issues surrounding African smallholder farmers' vulnerability to climate change and build the capacity of national institutions and community-based organizations to transfer climate-smart farming skills to rural households.

The goals of the Alliance fit within the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Vision 25 x 25, which aims to reach 25 million African farm households by 2025

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