Bringing the concept of climate-smart agriculture to life: insights from CSA country profiles across Africa, Asia, and Latin America

The Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Country Profile
Series assesses climate change challenges and
solutions in the agricultural sectors of more than 30
countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and
the Caribbean (LAC). This report introduces the first
analysis of a new dataset drawn from these profiles,
aggregating bottom-up results from individual
expert assessments of CSA technologies. It offers
the most complete overview to date of technologies
considered climate-smart around the world. The
emerging insights shed light on technologies
in different locations and farming systems,
their strengths and weaknesses across different
dimensions of climate-smartness, and their specific
barriers to adoption. As a result, a more concrete
and specific picture of CSA emerges that could help
demystify the concept, reveal synergies between
the three CSA pillars (productivity, adaptation, and
mitigation), and allow for more targeted technology
deployment and scale-up.