Climate-Smart Agriculture

Climate-Smart AgricultureA Call to ActionB Climate-Smart Agriculture seeks to increase sustainable productivity, strengthen farmers resilience, reduce Agriculture s greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon sequestration. It strengthens food security and delivers environmental benefits. Climate-Smart Agriculture includes proven practical techniques such as mulching, intercropping, conservation Agriculture , crop rotation, integrated crop-livestock management , agroforestry, improved grazing, and improved water management and innovative practices such as better weather forecasting, more resilient food crops and risk insurance.

tillage, cover crops, residue management, mulching, composting, green manure, targeted application of fertilizers, reduced biomass burning and agroforestry. The project seeks to provide technical support to about 60,000 farmers aggregated in farmer groups, managing a total of 45,000 hectares in the Nyanza and Western provinces in Kenya.

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  Management, Residues, Residue management

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