Climate smart agriculture [electronic resource] : building resilience to climate change / Edited by Leslie Lipper, et. al.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates -- Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 4: Innovation in Response to Climate Change -- Chapter 5: Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Decision of Crop Yield Prediction, River Discharge and Planning -- Chapter 6: Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDE -- Chapter 7 : Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia: The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam -- Chapter 8: U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts -- Chapter 9: Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts: An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Argiculture -- Chapter 10: Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity?: Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa -- Chapter 11: Can Cash Transfer Programs Promote Household Resilience?: Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 12: Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 13: Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria -- Chapter 14: Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems -- Chapter 15: Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate -- Chapter 16: The Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Information and Insurance under Climate Change -- Chapter 17: A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries -- Chapter 18: Identifying Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence of Zambia -- Chapter 19: Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 20: Improving the Resilience of Central Asian Agriculture to Weather Viability and Climate Change -- Chapter 21: Managing Environmental Risk in the Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaption in the Mile Basin of Ethiopia -- Chapter 22: Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi -- Chapter 23: Economic Analysis of Improved Smallholder Paddy and Maize Production in Northern Vietnam and Implications for Climate-Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 24: Synthesis: Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA -- Chapter 25: Conclusions and Policy Implications.

The book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of Climate-Smart Agriculture, drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional and resource economics. The book uses economic lens to identify the main features of CSA, its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. It is a product of the EPIC team in the ESA division and contributes to SO2 OO2. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is a concept that calls for integration of the need for adaptation and the possibility of mitigation in agricultural growth strategies to support food security. Several countries around the world have expressed intent to adopt CSA approach to managing their agricultural sectors. However there is considerable confusion about what the CSA concept and approach actually involve, and wide variation in how the term is used. It is critical to build a more formal basis for the CSA concept and methodology and at the same time providing illustrations of how the concept can be applied across a range of conditions.