Supporting climate-smart agriculture can lead to climate change adaptation practices in partnership where farmers' needs are addressed.

"Climate-smart agriculture has the potential to increase sustainable productivity, increase the resilience of agricultural systems to climate impacts, and mitigate climate change through reduced greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration," says Henry Neufeldt, Senior Climate Change Expert at the World Agroforestry Center. (ICRAF).

Agroforestry – growing trees on farms – is one such climate-smart agricultural practice and has huge potential for climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as providing a source of fuel, food, medicine and supplementing the diets of smallholder farmers. (More on phys.org)