Course: The Future of Farming: Exploring Climate Smart Agriculture

In addition to mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from dairy farming, there is also a need to adapt this sector to climate change. The most common breed of dairy cattle …

One of the human activities that has the greatest impact on the balance of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in our atmosphere, is the change of land use. Many hectares of natural …

This infographic was created by Clara Kightley and Sophie McDonnell, undergraduate students from the University of Reading’s Typography and Graphic Communication department. References: Food and agriculture data (FAOSTAT) on the …

The value chain of a product refers to the complete set of activities, that are necessary to deliver a product to the customer. What happens throughout this process can have …

The principles of CSA are very much context specific. This means that for every agricultural practice, every sector, and every farm there might be an individual climate-smart solution that might …

The University of Reading is a partner of the CSA Booster, which aims at promoting CSA in Europe. In this video, Dr Matthieu Arnoult talks about how the CSA Booster …

As we will explore later in this week, there are a number of technical solutions and practices to make farming more sustainable and climate smart. But first of all, you …

As you saw, in the previous Step, CSA is based on three principles: mitigation of GHG emissions from agriculture, adaptation of agricultural practices to climate change, and sustainable maintenance or …

Climate smart agriculture (CSA) describes agricultural practices aimed at adapting to climate change, mitigating the impact of agriculture on climate whilst maintaining and increasing productivity. The term Climate Smart Agriculture …

According to the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC, 2013) agriculture, forestry and the change of land-use, account for as much as 25% of human induced GHG emissions. Agriculture is …

This infographic was created by Clara Kightley and Sophie McDonnell, undergraduate students from the University of Reading’s Typography and Graphic Communication department. References: IPCC. Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report NASA. …

In this video, Dr Simon Mortimer explains how climate change can influence food systems and how food security can be ensured. After watching this video, do you think we can …