A limited number of farmers are currently benefiting from climate smart agriculture (CSA) and while there are difficulties in scaling up such approaches, there is great potential for the future.

This is the subject of an article on the website of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) which looks at discussions taking place during the UN climate talks in Doha.

Climate smart agricultural practices, such as agroforestry, which aim to build farmers’ resilience to climate change, face barriers such as social exclusion and language-use in climate information.

Farmers are already being affected by climate change and there is a gap between the development of new technologies and their implementation.

Various presenters at the conference have called for efforts that specifically target vulnerable groups, such as women and youth, as well as the dissemination of climate information in a way that can be adapted to meet the needs of different communities. Social reform is also needed to enable technologies to be adopted.

Read the full story: Scaling-up climate smart practices – why is it so hard?