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What is Climate Smart Agriculture?

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  • Messerges, Olivia
  • Ford, Trent

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As the United States agricultural system faces the challenges of feeding a growing population, adapting to climate change, and reducing environmental consequences, the concept of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) was established as a comprehensive strategy to help address these issues. However, no standardized framework exists to assess if CSA practices produce the desired benefits. This article calls for developing a consistent, widely applicable, and standardized framework to assess what makes a specific agricultural system or practice "climate-smart" and analyzes agroforestry and prescribed grazing within said framework.

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  • Messerges, Olivia & Ford, Trent, 2025. "What is Climate Smart Agriculture?," farmdoc daily, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, vol. 14(128).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:illufd:358478
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.358478
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    Agribusiness; Conservation and Other;

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