Climate smart agriculture: Food bridging, adaptation, and mitigation

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a conceptual framework that is aimed at transforming and re-oriented agricultural systems towards the new realities of climate change by providing their food security. Change of rain patterns and temperature increase is being observed all over the world and this poses a threat to agricultural production thereby subjecting people reliant on agriculture to greater exposure, particularly the world's poor. These weather changes also affect food markets, and this has had a universal threat to food supply. CSA is linked with the measure of containing these risks through the development of the adaptive abilities of the farmers and resiliency and enhancing resource-use efficiency of the agricultural production mechanisms. It promotes administration of efforts that comprise various stakeholders in it such as the farmers, researchers, the private, civil, the policymakers to develop climate resilient means. This strategy has four key areas of action, creating a more pressing evidence foundation to make decisions. Increasing the workability of local institutions. Enhancing climate-similarity with agricultural policy. Linking agriculture finance and climate. Contrary to conventional farming practice, CSA lays both stress on context and the specific solutions to be flexible that is mentioned with the help of new policy and finance mechanisms. This guarantees the contribution of agricultural development towards food security and climate resilience as opposed to the agricultural development taking the role of increasing climate change impacts.