Climate-smart agriculture: Insights and challenges
Abstract
Agriculture, broadly defined to include crop and livestock production, forestry, aquaculture and fishery, represents a key source or sink of greenhouse gas emissions. It is also a vulnerable sector under climate change. The term climate-smart agriculture has been widely used since its inception in 2010, but no clear and unified understanding of its scientific meaning exists. Here, we systematically analyzed the relationship between agriculture and climate change and interpreted the scientific definition of climate-smart agriculture. We believe that climate-smart agriculture represents a modern production approach to coordinatively promote food security, climate mitigation benefits and agricultural adaptation to climate change towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, due to the worsening global climate change situation, we expounded on the urgency and major challenges in promoting climate-smart agriculture.
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BibTeX
@article{lou2026climatesmart,
title = {{Climate-smart agriculture: Insights and challenges}},
author = {Yilai Lou and Liangshan Feng and Wen Xing and Ning Hu and Elke Noellemeyer and Edith Le Cadre and Kazunori Minamikawa and Pardon Muchaonyerwa and Mohamed A.E. Abdelrahman and Érika Flávia Machado Pinheiro and Wim de Vries and Jian Liu and Scott Chang and Jizhong Zhou and Zhanxiang Sun and Weiping Hao and Xurong Mei},
journal = {Climate Smart Agriculture},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1016/j.csag.2024.100003},
url = {https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05841936v1},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Climate-smart agriculture: Insights and challenges
AU - Yilai Lou
AU - Liangshan Feng
AU - Wen Xing
AU - Ning Hu
AU - Elke Noellemeyer
AU - Edith Le Cadre
AU - Kazunori Minamikawa
AU - Pardon Muchaonyerwa
AU - Mohamed A.E. Abdelrahman
AU - Érika Flávia Machado Pinheiro
AU - Wim de Vries
AU - Jian Liu
AU - Scott Chang
AU - Jizhong Zhou
AU - Zhanxiang Sun
AU - Weiping Hao
AU - Xurong Mei
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/28
JO - Climate Smart Agriculture
DO - 10.1016/j.csag.2024.100003
UR - https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05841936v1
AB - Agriculture, broadly defined to include crop and livestock production, forestry, aquaculture and fishery, represents a key source or sink of greenhouse gas emissions. It is also a vulnerable sector under climate change. The term climate-smart agriculture has been widely used since its inception in 2010, but no clear and unified understanding of its scientific meaning exists. Here, we systematically analyzed the relationship between agriculture and climate change and interpreted the scientific definition of climate-smart agriculture. We believe that climate-smart agriculture represents a modern production approach to coordinatively promote food security, climate mitigation benefits and agricultural adaptation to climate change towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, due to the worsening global climate change situation, we expounded on the urgency and major challenges in promoting climate-smart agriculture.
SN - 2950-4090
SN - 2950-4090
ER -