What is Climate Smart Agriculture?

Olivia Messerges and Trent Ford

farmdoc daily, 2025, vol. 14, issue 128

Abstract: As the United States agricultural system faces the challenges of feeding a growing population, adapting to climate change, and reducing environmental consequences, the concept of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) was established as a comprehensive strategy to help address these issues. However, no standardized framework exists to assess if CSA practices produce the desired benefits. This article calls for developing a consistent, widely applicable, and standardized framework to assess what makes a specific agricultural system or practice "climate-smart" and analyzes agroforestry and prescribed grazing within said framework.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Conservation and Other (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.358478

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