CCAFS Launches Learning Platform on Climate Smart Agriculture 24
May 2012: The Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food
Security (CCAFS) South Asia of the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has launched a
learning platform to improve agricultural resilience to changing
weather patterns, and to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
CSALP will provide a collective platform for policy advocacy and
to facilitate the development of Climate Smart Agriculture
Knowledge Bank, with evidence of and best practices on climate
smart agriculture. The Platform aims to: encourage communication
among policy makers, political leaders, researchers, farmers and
civil society; and engage in multi-sectoral learning. The
establishment of the platform underlines the need for science to
inform climate change policy development and implementation
processes, and aims to facilitate better communication at the
science-policy level to improve integration of adaptation and
mitigation into poverty and