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Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

The overall purpose of CCAFS is to marshal the science and expertise of CGIAR and partners to catalyse positive change towards climate-smart agriculture (CSA), food systems and landscapes, and position CGIAR to play a major role in bringing to scale practices, technologies and institutions that enable agriculture to meet triple goals of food security, adaptation and mitigation.

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) marshals the science and expertise of CGIAR and its partners to catalyse positive change for climate-smart agriculture (CSA). CCAFS positions CGIAR - the worlds largest agricultural research partnership - in play a major role to bring to scale the practices, technologies and institutions that enable agriculture to meet triple goals of food security, adaptation and mitigation. CCAFS work is carried out with the kind support of the CGIAR Trust Fund donors, as well as through bilateral funding agreements.

CCAFS uses the concept of climate-smart agriculture to structure its approach to climate-responsive options.

Climate-smart agriculture is an integrative approach to address these interlinked challenges of food security and climate change, that explicitly aims for three objectives:

Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, to support equitable increases in farm incomes, food security and development; Adapting and building resilience of agricultural and food security systems to climate change at multiple levels; and Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture (including crops, livestock and fisheries).

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