CSA 101: your online guide to climate-smart agriculture now in Spanish and French
Lili Szilagyi(CCAFS)
Are you looking for clear guidance on how to transform agriculture initiatives to become climate-resilient?
The CSA Guide website is now available in Spanish and French
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and partners developed a website presenting the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach to food security and sustainable development. The website aims to help practitioners, researchers and decision-makers working with or interested in CSA. The site helps you get started and guide you on the ground, connecting you with all the resources you need to dig deeper. For countries following up on their commitments under the Paris Agreement, CSA Guide is a useful tool to set up mitigation and adaptation initiatives in agriculture.
Read the research highlight in Spanish: La Guía ASAC: su puerta de acceso a la agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima
Read the research highlight in French: AIC 101: votre nouveau guide en ligne sur l'agriculture intelligente face au climat
Visit the website: CSA Guide
The CSA Guide website presents key information clearly and concisely, in a highly visual design and user-friendly interface.
The website is divided into six parts:
The basics
The basics section provides users with crucial information about what climate-smart agriculture is, how it helps address important challenges, how it is different from other sustainable agriculture approaches, and suggests introductory reading materials and videos.
Entry points
The next section gives an introduction into the numerous entry points for initiating CSA programmes. To help users navigate among them, they are presented under three thematic areas: Practices, Systems approaches and Enabling environments.
Develop a CSA plan
The website presents a specific approach to develop a CSA plan. This section was developed to provide a guide for operationalizing CSA planning, implementation and monitoring at scale. It consists of four subsections: Situation analysis, Targeting and prioritization, Programme support, and Monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Finance
The finance section offers an overview of potential sources of funding for CSA activities as national, regional and international levels. It also includes options to search among a range of funding opportunities according to CSA focus area, sector and financing instrument.
Resource library
In the resource library, users have access to all the references, key resources, key terms and frequently asked questions to get a quick overview that can be used as part of or independently of the other sections.
Case studies
And finally, the case studies section shows all the specific projects that are detailed in the basics and entry point sections. The interactive map allows users to view all case studies at once or filter the search by entry points.
An extensive portfolio of content, a highly visual design, and user friendly interface will allow users to find specific points of interest or follow the flow of information from the basics section, over entry points to CSA, CSA plan, CSA finance, a resource library and case studies.
The website aims to help raise investment in, and policy support for, climate-smart agriculture among development agencies, national government and the private sector.
Visit the website: CSA Guide
The website is available in Spanish and French:
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The CSA Guide website was developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) for the World Bank in collaboration with a range of other partners and institutions.
Contributors to the CSA Guide website: