At the 2014 Feed the Future Global Forum, Dennis Garrity, United Nations Drylands  Ambassador and Former Executive Director of the World Agroforestry Centre,  moderated a panel on the importance of addressing the current and future threats of  climate change in current food security programs.

The website, FreeNews Pos, carries the video of the panel session, which focused on 3  main questions:

• What do we know about the impacts and implications of climate change on the  future of agriculture in the developing world?

• What is coming up in terms of innovative, practical working alliances to promote a more climate smart agriculture in the coming years?

• What are some of the most innovative practices to enhance productivity and  resilience of smallholders?

Garrity spoke about how climate smart agriculture aims for a triple win; increasing productivity and food security along with resilience and reducing greenhouse gas  emissions.

In Africa, a commitment has been made to reach 25 million farmers with climate-smart agriculture practices by 2025. “Practices that come up strongly are conservation  farming and various types of agroforestry,” said Garrity.

Incorporating trees into cropping systems is a major opportunity to achieve the triple  win and build on what farmers are already doing. The other panellists who shared their views on these questions were: Dr Molly Brown  of NASA; Marc Sadler from the World Bank and Jerry Glover from USAID.

View the video: Getting Smart About Change: Climate and Agriculture