What’s a climate-smart landscape? ”Climate-smart landscapes operate on the principles of integrated landscape management, while explicitly incorporating adaptation and mitigation into their management objectives.” The concept of climate-smart landscapes covers what climate smart agriculture aims to achieve: Food security, improved livelihoods, low emissions development, resilience and recognition of ecosystems. Sara Scherr, President and CEO of EcoAgriculture Partners spoke at the World Bank side event “Enabling Land Use Activities in developing countries’ context: Constraints and Opportunities”. She pointed out that we need to look beyond afforestation and reforestation when assessing mitigation potentials from land use interventions. Many mitigation activities have the potential to build farmers’ resilience to climate shocks, as well as improving yields and quality of livestock, soil and grasslands. By integrating a holistic landscape view, we can take advantage of synergies and trade-offs from the different areas that make up a landscape.
