The concept of climate-smart agriculture has now been in existence for well over a decade. The development and promotion of climate-smart techniques is now a major field of research and practice. These techniques aim to increase productivity and resilience whilst decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Within broader food systems approaches, the Sustainable Development Goals are sometimes cited as objectives as well as, for example increasing income.
Despite the clear progress made, one key challenge, and area of some recent progress, is the measurement of the performance of climate-smart practices with respect to their objectives. This includes metrics that capture the extent to which multiple objectives are achieved, and objective methodologies for assessing the inherent trade-offs and synergies associated with the multiple aims. Recent progress in this area has focussed mainly on agricultural systems. Broader food systems approaches are also important, and raise many questions, for example, how might proven farm-scale climate-smart practices be scaled up to regional and national scales?
Submissions should focus on measuring the performance of climate-smart practices with respect to the underlying objectives and their inherent synergies and trade-offs. A focus on just one aspect of climate-smartness (adaptation, mitigation, productivity) is not suitable for this RT. This Research Topic invites authors to submit original research, systematic review, and methods articles on the following themes:
1. Measurement methods and results relating directly to the performance of food systems in achieving climate-smart aims
2. Use of remote sensing and other techniques to monitor the performance of food systems in achieving climate-smart aims
3. Novel methodologies for the exploration of climate-smart policies through research and stakeholder engagement
4. Food systems approaches that capture variation in climate-smartness across scale and/or components of the food system (farm, processing, distribution, trade etc)
The concept of climate-smart agriculture has now been in existence for well over a decade. The development and promotion of climate-smart techniques is now a major field of research and practice. These techniques aim to increase productivity and resilience whilst decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Within broader food systems approaches, the Sustainable Development Goals are sometimes cited as objectives as well as, for example increasing income.
Despite the clear progress made, one key challenge, and area of some recent progress, is the measurement of the performance of climate-smart practices with respect to their objectives. This includes metrics that capture the extent to which multiple objectives are achieved, and objective methodologies for assessing the inherent trade-offs and synergies associated with the multiple aims. Recent progress in this area has focussed mainly on agricultural systems. Broader food systems approaches are also important, and raise many questions, for example, how might proven farm-scale climate-smart practices be scaled up to regional and national scales?
Submissions should focus on measuring the performance of climate-smart practices with respect to the underlying objectives and their inherent synergies and trade-offs. A focus on just one aspect of climate-smartness (adaptation, mitigation, productivity) is not suitable for this RT. This Research Topic invites authors to submit original research, systematic review, and methods articles on the following themes:
1. Measurement methods and results relating directly to the performance of food systems in achieving climate-smart aims
2. Use of remote sensing and other techniques to monitor the performance of food systems in achieving climate-smart aims
3. Novel methodologies for the exploration of climate-smart policies through research and stakeholder engagement
4. Food systems approaches that capture variation in climate-smartness across scale and/or components of the food system (farm, processing, distribution, trade etc)